How to keep a personal diary?
As children, many of us kept personal diaries,which recorded various interesting information, pasted stickers, drew pictures. Some and still continue to keep a personal diary, in which they keep secret records. If you have just decided to write down your ideas and thoughts on paper, you should know how to keep a personal diary.
Why do I need a personal diary?
A personal diary for many people becomes an integral part of life, because on paper you can put any thoughts, draw the most delusional drawings that will be expensive and understandable only to you.
But in the conduct of a personal diary there is another reason - the ability to analyze the current situation.
In addition, entries in your personal diary help you understand which information will be important to you, and which is not.
And finally, the diary helps not to forgetsomething that was very important to you. After all, the psychology of the formation of memories is very complex, and we can not always look at our past in a few years. For example, we all remember only good things about student years. But after all, we forgot how nervous we could be before the exams, we did not sleep for the nights before the next retake. And in fact, during the training there could be a lot of trouble, but we do not remember them, because only good memories remained in my head. It is because of the wrong assessment of the situation in the past that many people want to return the past years, because there it was better.
So that you can at any time correctly assess the situation, you should keep a personal diary.
How is it better to keep a personal diary?
As a diary, you can use a regular thick notebook where you will write down everything that happened to you during the day.
Also, you can keep a personal electronic diary if it is more convenient for you to store information. At the moment there are several programs for maintaining an electronic diary.
Important! Do not confuse the blog with the blog. In your personal diary you will write down about your experiences. And in blogs, people write more to be evaluated. Naturally, you will not write personal information there.
Let's return to how to keep a personal diary. It is required to record all thoughts and feelings on this or that occasion. It is not necessary to describe events in the diary that do not cause you any emotion.
Also in the diary you can write down various ideas that come to your mind. So you will not forget about their implementation.
Tasks that you had to perform for the whole day can also be recorded. Then, at the end of the day, note what you did and what did not.
Even the accounts department can keep a diary and record your own waste.
As you can see, it's up to you to write in your personal diary.
How to arrange a personal diary so that it is convenient to conduct it?
In order not to get confused in the pages, the diary followscorrectly to issue. Making a personal diary is not a pretty drawing in the margins. This is the correct organization of the place where you will write down your thoughts. Therefore, it is desirable to divide the diary into three sections: "Tasks", "Ideas" and "Evaluation".
In the "Tasks" section, write down all the goals thatyou would like to achieve. Set goals for yourself at work or in your life. This section gives you the opportunity to now model your future and clearly understand what you want to achieve.
The section "Ideas" is dedicated to your own thoughts. It can be not only different ideas that you would like to implement, or that will help you achieve one goal or another. Here you write down any thoughts that seem important to you, because in this section is everything that you consider the main thing for you.
In the "Evaluation" section, analyze the situation. If you return to certain records after a while, you will be able to look at your actions from the side. Also you can look at the situation in a new way. In addition, this section should record your achievements. This is how you can see how far you have progressed towards your goal. It is superfluous to write down in this section not only successes, but also failures. So you can learn something new when you look at the situation anew and analyze it.
The rating system for keeping a personal diary is also very important. Try to evaluate all the events that are happening to you, and experiences on this or that occasion on a five-point scale.
Why do we need a rating system? The fact is that often we perceive the situation is not what it really is. We can exaggerate or downplay everything in separate details, which affects the formation of personal opinions. But the rating system will not let you get confused. After all, at any time you can deduce the arithmetic mean and see how correctly you assessed the situation.
As you can see, there is no way to keep a personal diarynothing complicated. The main thing is not to forget to write down your thoughts and feelings into it. If, for several days in a row, you record the same phrase - "today nothing has happened," think about your life. And are you doing everything right?
