Small steps toward journaling again

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Periodically I remember how little I use this journal compared to how often I used to. I think I may be even busier these days, and I no longer have the interest in detailing my day-to-day activities the way I used to. But I do wish I was more in the regular journaling habit. I like having a record of my thoughts, if not my doings, particularly of the creative things I’m working on.

So maybe I’ll see if I can get myself back into it. I’ve had success in the past, when I wanted to implement a new habit, with the method of setting a ridiculously low goal that I know I can complete regularly. Write one page of the script a day. Read ten minutes of a novel every day. Go for a walk around the neighborhood every day. Perhaps if I set myself to write just a very small amount— even as little as two hundred words, or less —of journal content today, it could serve to rebuild the habit.

I imagine I will write about some stupid stuff, if pressed to record my thoughts on a regular basis. I won’t always have something interesting to say. But I think sometimes I don’t write anything at all if I feel like I can’t totally explore or say a whole bunch about my thoughts, and then what ideas I had got lost. Maybe I would have liked to keep those thoughts on record, if only to do something with later. I very, very frequently find that sort of things useful later, and am glad to have kept it as a starting point, if nothing else. So maybe it’ll be good for me if I set the bar very low, and give it a try.