9 Tips to Make Journaling Part of Your Daily Routine

The way to ensure that journaling works for you is to do it long term. Long-term journaling gives you more insight into your life because you’ll be able to look to the past, present, and even the future to get answers in your life.

But first, you have to actually do it. And you need to do it daily to make it a habit.

Let’s review a few tips for making journaling part of your daily routine:

1. Make It Easy – Don’t make journaling too big of a deal. Keep it simple and it will be simpler to get done. Find the simplest routine you can incorporate each day and then stick with it!
2. Choose a Time That Works – The best times to journal are first thing in the morning or the last thing before you go to bed. But your schedule might call for something different, such as journaling during lunch time. That important thing is that you find the time that works for you.
3. Get a Drink and Eat a Snack – You don’t want to have any excuses or extraneous thoughts while you’re writing in your journal. Make sure you’re fed and hydrated.
4. Create a Comfortable Journaling Space – It’s easier to get into your thoughts if you’re comfortable and in a peaceful setting. Some people like using a desk, some a comfy easy chair, others their bed.
5. Combine Journaling with Something Else You Enjoy Doing – If you enjoy cleaning the house, then reading in your clean house with the windows open and the breeze flowing in, why not journal at that moment? If it’s a daily thing, add journaling to it, and you’ll create a habit quickly.
6. Add Some Relaxing Music to Set the Mood – Consider journaling while listening to some music that doesn’t have words and that is relaxing, to help you gather your thoughts and say calm and focused.
7. Use a Particular Style of Journaling – For some people, using a style of journaling like bullet journaling, prayer journaling, project journaling, or similar, works better since it defines some rules for entry.
8. Consider Using Journaling Prompts – You can find journaling prompts online for any type of journal you want to use.
9. Reward Yourself – When you have been diligently journaling for a month, take some time to read and review what you wrote. Then reward yourself for doing it.

To truly experience the full benefits of journaling, it needs to be done most days, which is why you need to find a way to incorporate journaling into your everyday life. The best way to accomplish this is to make it easy and turn it into a habit.