Description: When one is told to sit down and write a journal I feel it is a natural instinct to immediately describe the contents of your day so writing as a description of events came very naturally to me in a course of journal entry. Being able to write about what has happened in my day and where and when and what were the main events that occurred. At first I found I was being overly descriptive when reading back on my entries and spending an awful lot of time doing so. However, it was when I discovered further ways of documenting my journal entries I came up with the best strategy for me.
Initial Refection: Naturally I am a very emotive person and a lot of things that happen in my daily life I automatically accompany with a feeling or emotion purely because that's me thats the way I am. If something were to be a main event in my day it is most likely that it has affected me emotionally and hence a reason it has impacted me to write about it so my initial refection to sport events that have occurred during my day is very important to my journal.
List: Regardless be it journal or not, I make lists every single day. In bed at night I will make a list of my morning routine and what I need to accomplish before work. I will also make to do list of things I need to achieve long and short term. Currently I have countless lists of birthday and Chirstmas present ideas for my entire family as Christmas ever so quickly is approaching. So when I thought about my daily journal, for me writing a list of the main events in my day was incredibly beneficial for me. Yes I was being descriptive in it but just writing down the main essential facts of what I wanted to make note of and this became a very easy way to document my day and took very little time to do so.
Evaluation: In terms of evaluating my day to day life, I don't really know how beneficial that is to me as a person. I over think every thing in my life anyway so even though I am writing down my main events of the day for me I don't really like to elaborate to much on evaluating it straight away as I know I will get lost in my thoughts and not sleep. I do believe in terms of professional practice that evaluating ones notes is very beneficial though as stated on a previous blog. If you can't evaluate your notes as a performer it is difficult to progress further with ones development of character or thought process behind the piece. So in terms of my career and in performance roles I would make a very clear effort to most definitely evaluate my work however in my day to day personal life I try to keep things simple.
Graphs, Charts and Diagrams: Using a chart, graph or diagram for the use of a journal could be seen as a very interesting way to document ones day. When I began to think about what I could document on a chart or diagram I found it much easier to document more physical ways of what I'm doing and how time consuming they are rather than my thoughts and emotions. I love to read and even though I am very creative I found it very difficult to maintain such visual ways of maintaining a blog than writing it down so for me this wasn't very successful.
What if?: I'm not a strong believer in What If I'm afraid. Personally I hate thinking about what could of been. I live very much in the day to day life. In my life I have experienced a lot of pain and upset and you really don't know what could happen and how maybe your hopes and dreams could be destroyed. Yes, I have ambition and so many things I would like to achieve and want for my life but I try not to think too far ahead. If I do not only am I afraid I won't achieve it but I'm also afraid my whole life could fall apart so for me I have to think about whats happening on a day to day basis. For mine and my whole families sake.
Another View Point: When looking at this way of writing a journal I thought it would be very interesting maybe imaging my life as my mirror in my bedroom or the hat stand at my work... but for the sake of writing a journal on my life in my career, for me being more successful in writing about my daily activities has been to "keep it simple". And however much writing like this could be incredibly interesting... a more simple view point has proven to be more successful for me.
What if?: I'm not a strong believer in What If I'm afraid. Personally I hate thinking about what could of been. I live very much in the day to day life. In my life I have experienced a lot of pain and upset and you really don't know what could happen and how maybe your hopes and dreams could be destroyed. Yes, I have ambition and so many things I would like to achieve and want for my life but I try not to think too far ahead. If I do not only am I afraid I won't achieve it but I'm also afraid my whole life could fall apart so for me I have to think about whats happening on a day to day basis. For mine and my whole families sake.
Another View Point: When looking at this way of writing a journal I thought it would be very interesting maybe imaging my life as my mirror in my bedroom or the hat stand at my work... but for the sake of writing a journal on my life in my career, for me being more successful in writing about my daily activities has been to "keep it simple". And however much writing like this could be incredibly interesting... a more simple view point has proven to be more successful for me.
Even though more of a descriptive list for me has proven the best way of writing a journal of my day to day life exploring these other ways of documenting has been very interesting and I'm intrigued to know how other people have made these other forms of keeping a journal successful in their day to day lives.
