How Can You Reinvent Yourself?

Figure out your purpose in life. If your aspirations do not scare you I want you to dream some more! Complacency in your current situation will not allow you to reach those dreams. Think unconventionally, find your true voice, and use it to impact not only your life but those around

First, I write to show my thoughts and my personality. It helps me show who i am and what i can set my mind to do. I constantly overthink when i’m writing and always think “this is not good enough, erase it,

Some people relieve stress by journaling. Journaling allows people to clarify their thoughts and feelings, thereby gaining valuable self-knowledge. It’s also a good problem-solving tool; oftentimes, one can hash out a problem and come up with solutions more easily on paper. Journaling about traumatic events helps one process them by fully exploring and releasing the emotions involved, and by engaging both hemispheres of the brain in the process, allowing the experience to become fully integrated in one’s mind (Scott, 2009).

The Learning Journal is a space where you should reflect upon what was learned during the week and how it applies to your daily life and will help you with your life (career) goals.

Writing became a way for me to express other feelings throughout my young years, but I always ended up writing in notebooks about how I was lonely and felt that I was the source of everything wrong in my life.

The journals I have written came from my four years of high school English. Everyday I came to class there would be a topic on the board. I took five minutes each day to write about the given topic. It was brainstorming and giving our input on whatever the topic was. I think

I never stopped journaling, even when I was dependent on heroin. The people I was surrounded by were not my friends, by any means, and frankly could not be trusted. So, when I felt I had no one to talk to, I would write in my journal. Now that I am in drug treatment, I am spending more and more time journaling and writing letters to the people I have hurt over the years. I find that some things are best communicated in that way.

Writing makes me feel like I am talking to someone that is always listening. Getting to write down my thoughts is like talking to my future self. For example, I do like writing journal entries because I can go back and read it later in life. Just one short paragraph can explain how I felt at that time and what was going on. It also shows your improvement. Going back and looking at my old writings give me a pretty good idea of how much better I have gotten at

Writing acts as a vessel that allows one to express themselves in their own way. When one writes of personal accounts, they allow their heart and soul come out. They feel as though they have the ability to feel and say anything. Hopefully one may find personal satisfaction in their ability to communicate clearly and effectively using the written word.

However, journaling doesn’t always have to be all self-indulgent. Even though I’ve written about how living with Lyme disease has affected my life, my memoir story about my days as a competitive gymnast and even writing my very own resume; I still had to conform to the writing rules of the class and keep from being self-indulgent while self-examining. It was still always important and required to exercise critical thought, enhanced expression and conscious

At a young age, my skills were limited, I had little knowledge about writing. While in elementary school, writing was introduced to allow us as a way to express what was on our minds. Our assignments consisted of writing in our journals daily. In the beginning, writing didn't really appeal to me. I found it to be boring and time consuming. However, journaling is a tool to help you become a better writer. It’s a way to help you express yourself.

Another example of an important journal entry was when Mina would write about being scared of what was happening to Jonathan. To his face and to other people, Mina would present herself as though she wasn’t worried at all about Jonathan being away at Castle Dracula; however, in her journals she wrote her true emotions, which told an opposing story. This gave the reader an insight into what she really thought. In her journal, she couldn’t conceal what she was feeling at the moment, and without knowing her true emotions, the reader might have missed out on valuable points. This could have easily happened had the story been told from a narrative point of view.

The type journaling I used was the A-B-C structured diary to recognize my antecedents. I believe the A-B-C is a great way to keep record of the antecedents and find what behaviors and consequences occur. Journaling the different contingencies that effect my target behavior will help me learn and be aware of the five W’s (who, what, where, and why) that resulted in my self-discouragement (L.Watson & Tharp, 2014, p. 79). The journaling of how I structured it was put into an excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet contained three columns that were titled Antecedents; Behaviors; and Consequences respectively. Under Antecedents, I would explain the preceding events that would follow my reactions or behavior and its consequences. Examples included: walking

Freshman year, I grew in 2 ways; one which included gaining skills for academic success. I wanted to find a way to become a better writer while at the same time putting my feelings on paper, thus leading to my journal, or “diary”. I would write events that happened and my feelings and input on it. One thing I noticed was that writing

Writing has always played a huge role in my life. I’ve been reading writing for as long as I can remember as I have an immense love of reading. This love would grow into a love for writing as well; I still stumble upon journals and writings from my five-year-old self about the happenings in my kindergarten class. As time would go on I would discover academic writing, and how to convey my thoughts on what was the topic of student that particular year or semester in my schooling. Later, writing would become a constant for me, and a comfort; I was known to my friends as always having a journal, and a pen on my person. I learned to write down my feelings and my thoughts, song lyrics that were in my head, reflections for the day. I learned how