Consider logging your thoughts… it’s healing!

JClark81 — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:16:07 +0000

When I was younger I never kept a journal. For some reason I always related journaling in my younger years to having a “Diary.” I always thought as a young child that girls were supposed to have diaries and not boys. And that is true, that was the thing. Younger boys aren’t into that sort of thing.

As I got older, in my teen years, my logic matured greatly, I realized that journal writing was the same. I still related it to having a Diary and so I never did practice writing about my life experiences, plus I was a teenager and I was into other things teenagers are into like extracurricular after school activities. Not to mention studying and homework, the last thing I wanted to do was write in a notebook about how my day was.

Today is a new day. I’m 26 years old, (the day that I wrote this blog) and my logic has matured much since my teen years. My understanding about writing about life’s experiences is different.

I am an aspiring entrepreneur and part of what I do is helping others who are aspiring entrepreneurs well. I do a lot of studying and much of the beginning stages of starting entrepreneurship are trial and error. I’ve tried many things that, for me, didn’t work. They become a learning experience and I choose to write my thoughts about these experiences and ways to help others avoid some of the failures that I had.

In studying entrepreneurship, I have learned so much that it fascinates me and I wanted to share those experiences with everyone as well. I learned that by journalizing my thoughts and experiences, whether successful experiences or failures, has become sort of a healing mechanism for me in a sense that it frees up much of the disappointment of starting a business that is stagnant. Also in logging my experiences, I’m able to show others what works for me.

Logging your thoughts is healing. I get a sense of fulfillment when I take out time and write. Ask yourself these questions: Is my life stressful? Do I experience situations that are worth sharing? Do I tend to hold in much of life’s frustrations?

Imagine a childhood memory that you really enjoyed and would give anything to go back to that time and place. Maybe it was going to Disney World or going on a trip with family. It could be anything. What if you wrote down everything that you saw, felt or heard? What about the things you did and enjoyed about those experiences? What if you read it today? How special would that be to you? Would it be sense of healing for you? It would certainly take you back to that particular time and place in your mind.

Logging your thoughts and experiences is not only healing for you but it’s for those who read. If you are an entrepreneur who is starting your business, take out sometime and log your experiences. Write about what helped you out and share it with someone else who is starting their business. You will see a difference in how you feel daily. You will understand that logging your thoughts is a great outlet. In the same way that a boxer pounds the punching bag as an outlet, so is logging your thoughts. The same way an artists paints a detailed masterpiece with excellence or a composer arranges a marvelous symphony and gets great peace of mind form his/her works, so is logging your thoughts.

To your success,

Jarrod Clark

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Consider logging your thoughts… it’s healing!