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How to Keep a Life Journal

Posted on March 27, 2024 by mitchteemley

Two days ago in Why You Should Keep a Life Journal I argued that journaling offers both immediate and future benefits. Here are seven suggestions on how to attain those benefits: Set aside a regular time, but only write when you … Continue reading →

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Why You Should Keep a Life Journal

Posted on March 25, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week “In the diary you find proof that in situations which today would seem unbearable, you lived.” ~Franz Kafka (from his personal diary) My wife and I were trying to remember the chain of events in our … Continue reading →

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Journaling for Life

Posted on October 15, 2018 by mitchteemley

Part Two: How to Write a Life Journal for Present You and Future You (including suggestions on how to use fewer words than this subtitle does) I argued in Part One that the future benefits of journaling are at least … Continue reading →

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Journaling for Life

Posted on October 12, 2018 by mitchteemley

Part One: Why Keep a Life Journal? “In the diary you find proof that in situations which today would seem unbearable, you lived… We may be wiser because we are able to look back upon our former condition.” ~Franz Kafka … Continue reading →

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Real Success!

Posted on January 7, 2017 by mitchteemley

Dear Diary: Week one of 2017 is finished! So far this year I have, 1) written, “Dear Diary: Week one of 2017 is finished!” and, 2) Um…

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