What can journaling help you with?

Most people consider journaling to help with areas such as self-reflection, enhancing gratitude or helping manage stress and anxiety through processing emotions.

While it can help with all those things, there's actually many different ways to benefit from journaling, depending on what you're trying to experience more of in life.

Heuristic Journaling is journaling for personal development. Aimed at being efficient with the journaling tools available and to expediate growth in a time conscious way. Some of the areas journaling can help with include:

• Organising

• Setting Goals

• Planning

• Scheduling

• Self-reflection:

  • Figuring out what you want

  • Reflect on the choices you are making which are keeping you stuck

  • Uncovering limiting beliefs

  • Identifying your values

  • Finding behaviours holding back progress

  • Uncovering emotions

  • Understanding your reactions towards events/people

  • Processing and altering thoughts

  • Working through fears

  • Working through motivation

  • Altering perspectives in how you view things

• Building good habits

• Summerising things we learn in books and podcasts

• Creating a list of actions items (to do when you have time)

• Writing down and answering questions about yourself or changes your trying to make

• Compiling a list of your own epiphanies and things learnt

• Exploring ideas for creativity

• Managing your mental and emotional states to turn up in life the way you envisage

• Finding ways to move past your own roadblocks.

In essence, journaling is problem solving. Doesn't matter if you're trying to go from 'ok' to 'good', or from 'good' to 'great'. Journaling is about giving yourself the space and techniques to help reach aspirations of the future or self you desire to have.