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How An“Experience Journal” Will Turbocharge Your Daily Writing And Ease Your Anxiety…
All You Need Is A $2.00 Notebook and 15 Minutes Before Bed
I began journaling almost three years ago. I tried every method I could find.
The idea journal
The gratitude journal
The bullet journal
This journal and that journal
None of them stuck with me. Piles of notebooks filled with only a dozen or so pages collected dust on my bookshelf. It seemed pointless, but I stuck with it.
Experimentation and simplification turned out to be the key to success. I started small, recording my daily experiences. I tried dozens of experiments. Most fizzled out. A few made the cut and became part of my core journaling practice.
After a year of refinement, I created the Experience Journal. I wrote about it a year ago. It had become my chief source of writing ideas. Since then, I’ve tweaked, tightened and perfected the process. It has now grown beyond an idea generation tool.
I’ve always struggled with low-grade, but consistent anxiety. I’ve found that this bedtime process has helped calm me. It has an almost meditative effect.
