Journaling for Busy Moms

I love buying and receiving journals.  When I was in high school, I filled journal after journal with my questions about life, my meanderings about what kind of job I should get, and of course, about all the boys I had crushes on.

Decades later, I don’t journal like I used to (I would write paragraphs and paragraphs about where I went and who said what).  I want to journal because I know it helps with self-reflection and also recording your life so you don’t forget important moments.

But my journal entries are sporadic to say the least.

I have many journals with about 10 pages written in them, and then it just goes blank.

I had pretty much given up on journaling (not philosophically but practically speaking) until about a week ago.  I was listening to a leadership podcast by Craig Groeshel.  He was talking about how he hadn’t found a rhythm either of journaling, but that he had found something that worked.

It’s a five year journal.

All you have to do is write a few lines each day.  There are only a few lines to write available anyway.  You write a little something about each day and it stores 5 years worth of your thoughts and activities.  It’s brilliant!

It’s easy, doable, and I think it will be really helpful to see five years of data of my life on a given day in the future.  I talk about it here in this video:

Journaling provides/stokes:

Perspective.

Momentum.

Gratitude.

So the journal I bought is this one.  It cost less than $15 and so far I have a perfect streak of writing in it.  Okay, I’ve had it for like, four days.  But still, I’m filled with hope about journaling now!

If you’re a busy mom, I think this journal just might do the trick.  I’ll have to let you know in five years how my streak (and life) is going.