A personal diary is a kind of analysis of oneself. After all, looking back at your past, studying your behavior in some situations, you can analyze and determine how to behave yourself in the future. But many have the question of how to keep a personal diary. Some are of the opinion that you need to take notes daily, others do not know what to write about every day.
Which personal diary to choose
Before you start to keep a personal diary, you need to decide on its option. There are 2 types of diaries:
- Handwritten version.
- Blog on the Internet.
A handwritten version of a personal diary has been known since ancient times. For many centuries, women wrote down their personal experiences in notebooks that were hidden from prying eyes.
The 21st century gives people the opportunity to go beyond the boundaries of classical journaling and suggests creating it on the Internet. If necessary, you can close your diary on the Internet from strangers. In extreme cases, the diary can be created under some pseudonym. An advantage of the Internet blog is the ability to upload your favorite pictures, music or video. For deep worries or problems, the author may ask other blog creators for advice.
How to create a personal diary
Another plus of the handwritten diary is the possibility of its design for every taste. Entries in it can be done with colored pens, felt-tip pens. Interesting thoughts are marked with a highlighter or framed. Any imagination of the author will come true. If necessary, you can paste interesting newspaper clippings, photographs or pictures into your personal diary.
It is worth buying for yourself some notepad with a lock or a button. Let it be more expensive than ordinary notebooks, but it will remain with the owner for many years.
After buying a notebook, you should purchase cover material. For example, felt. You can buy it in many stores, and a huge selection of shades will allow you to choose the perfect one for yourself. Cut the cover out of felt, sew the pockets to hold the notebook. On the cover you can stick flowers, angels or rhinestones. You can create a whole masterpiece.
It is advisable to make a special pocket on the cover or on the first page. It will store memorable photos or notes that someday will be in the hands of the owner.
How to keep a personal diary
In your personal diary, you can make absolutely any entries. Do not be afraid that someone will read it. After all, it will be stored in a place inaccessible to others.
You need to keep a diary constantly. Even if nothing happened during the day, then at least a couple of lines should be done. If there are no thoughts on what to write in it, then refer to the following tips:
- Do not be afraid to write down all your thoughts. Let from the side they seem strange and incomprehensible. But then these notes will help you analyze yourself.
- Record all your feelings, emotions and experiences. This is especially true of feelings of love for a man. Maybe he will become your husband and in some conflict situation these notes will help to remember all the feelings that were experienced for this man at the very beginning of the relationship.
- If you remember what you dreamed at night, then write down your dream and the state of it after waking up. These notes in your personal diary will help you sort out your internal problems. Determine why this or that dream had a dream.
- Try to write down as many positive thoughts as possible. After all, after rereading them, the soul again becomes good. But do not be afraid and splash out your sadness. After all, a personal diary is your friend to whom you can tell absolutely everything. Such records will allow you not to keep sadness, anger and longing in yourself and not get hung up on any problems.
- But do not turn your personal diary into a list of enemies, their actions and problems with them. By constantly making such notes and re-reading them, you will simply be angry with the person again. And enemies must be forgiven.