To understand what to write in your personal diary, it is enough to decide for what purpose it starts. On its pages you can pour out experiences, share dreams and plans, set goals and describe how their achievement is progressing. At first it may seem that there is nothing to write about, the records will be short, but over time this process will turn into a habit, the thoughts themselves will go on paper.
Life story
Every day something happens in life: good and bad, global and small. All is worthy of attention. Personal diary entries are never unimportant. If a person wrote about an event, then at that moment it mattered to him. Even the entry “10th day nothing happens” has its own meaning, it teaches a person what to do with inaction or that it is not always necessary to strive for something, sometimes you also need to rest from achieving your goals.
Emotion graph
If it is still difficult to express your thoughts, you can try to keep a schedule of emotions. Every day should describe the strongest emotion that caused it, what was her outward manifestation. First, the entries may be short, for example, "Anger. They raised a colleague, not me. I decided to look for a new job." This will identify the markers of their behavior, to understand whether the person reacts to failures and achievements.
To make it more fun and easier, you can add emotions to the names of the pictures, for example, express anger with lightning, joy with a smiley, happiness with the sun, love with a heart. Emotions can not draw, and assessed on a five-point scale. The good ones are in the black, the bad ones are in the minus. At the end of each month, you need to draw a visual graph to see how your mood jumped.
Goal path
One day you can set a goal and paint the stages of its achievement. Then every day describe what has been done for this. Even if nothing has been done, it is worth writing about it, moreover, explaining to yourself what exactly prevented further movement and how this difficulty can be overcome. Gradually, a person will learn to write not only about goals, but also about other events in life.
Talk to yourself
One of the reasons why a person should start such a diary is the ability to unload. Not all the secrets you want to share with other people, but keep everything in yourself is harmful. If there is a feeling that everything inside is boiling and you need to urgently talk about your experiences, you can tell about yourself, described in the diary. Psychologists recommend at the moment of heightened emotionality to record experiences and feelings by hand. This contributes to the release of anger, anger, resentment better.
Talk to other people
To understand the situation with a person who does not let go, psychologists advise to write him a letter. Of course, it is not necessary to send it, since it is written rather for the author himself. You need to contact directly to the person. You can write anything to him, the more colorful the emotions in a letter, the better. This will help to internally resolve the situation that causes the improvement of relations with a person in real life.
Evaluate your behavior
Here you need to feel the line between assessment and criticism. In the diary, you can praise yourself for good and wise deeds. Bad and stupid - to describe in more detail, to understand why they were committed. This will keep the balance in self-esteem, bring it back to normal. You should not abuse yourself, even making mistakes, a person gets an important experience.
Describe favorite dialogs
If an important or pleasant conversation took place during the day, it can be recorded in a diary using direct speech. The same applies to unpleasant conversations. Their description is equally important, so you can throw off the negative.
Record important dates
Let the diary be a place for dates of birth. It is not necessary to create a separate page for this, you can write about this in the master records. If the diary is in electronic form, then finding the birthday of an old friend is not difficult.
Thanks
You can keep a separate diary of gratitude or write in general. You can be grateful to anyone and anything. You can thank yourself, the universe, circumstances, events, other people. This will help to tune in to the positive wave, to become more optimistic, to understand that a lot of positive things happen in life, even if we are talking about small joys, but in sum, they are also significant.
Making decisions
When an important decision needs to be made, a difficult process takes place in the brain in order to ease the work and unload itself, and a diary is needed. You can paint in it all the pros and cons of both sides of the decision. Prescribe how life will change if you take one side or the other.
Do not write, and draw
If a person does not know how to write a diary, you can replace part of the text with pictures, collages, applications. For example, visiting a movie, you can first stick a ticket from the cinema, and then describe what the movie liked, what touched, and what disappointed. You can start each entry with your photo (more convenient if the diary is electronic). Even if it is a regular photo, where a person is wearing pajamas and a cup of coffee, this will eloquently describe the mood.
Fears and hopes
If a person is disturbed or frightened, it is worth describing it on paper. This is how the "enemy" moves from the head to the diary. Hope is also worth writing to fill your life with positive thoughts. It is worth describing your condition not only at the peak moment of inspiration or anxiety, but also to understand whether the situation has worsened or resolved, hopes were met or they collapsed. It also does not hurt to analyze the situation in order to understand why this is exactly the result.
If it seems that there is nothing to write in your personal diary, you need to postpone it for a while. Do not force yourself to write, but do not throw the diary too long. You can teach yourself to write at least every Sunday, summing up the week. To diary had a therapeutic effect, it is necessary to re-read it periodically.
