I'm 18 and I've started soooo many journals but I never finish them and I just want to journal to look back at because its so funny to look back at my 8 year old self writing "Today I ate chicken and icecream, it was cold" and I want to continue to that. It would also be SO aesthetically pleasing to flip through a journal all handwritten in black pilot g2 ink 😍
I am 56 years old, and yes, I subscribe to your channel. Why, you may ask? Because I believe that you are an awesome person. Truly. I have been writing a LONG time (believe me), and my journals are with me in every house I have ever lived in. As for you? You kick some ass, and don't stop making the videos. When I am down, you build me back up again. Always.
I don't want to journal every day, exetly because I don't want to put pressure on me. I journal when I feel like it. Almost every day, but sometimes I skip one day or an entire week. Who cares? Why should I force myself to do it when I am not in the mood? It would ruin it. For me, journaling means freedom. I can write anything that I want, whenever I want, and if I don't want to do it then I don't have to. BTW I love your videos! Your personality is so calming! I started to jurnal because i saw one of your videos. It made my life better! :)
I feel like the combining of bullet journal, normal everyday writing and dream journal helps me out alot. I did experiment by combining my sketchbook along with last year's journal, but then decided it was too much. I needed my artist freedom amd a different sketchbook lol. But yes, it goes with your last point about discipline & freedom. Do experiment alot with your journal: It's YOURS, do whatever you want
I smoosh my journals all in one!!! I use my journal as a written, photo documenting my life type of journal in between my written calendar bullet journal type! Also so fun that I made your favorite journal list eeekkkk
I have been subscribed to you for only a few months now and I really like you. Your voice is so calming (I'm sure you get that a lot), and also you're very honest and stay to the point. Love you!
I have been journaling since 11/21/17 everyday and I am on my second journal! I use mine to say what I did in the day. I can't wait to look back on this when I am an adult.
I'm trying to get back into the habit of journaling everyday. During the summer I would journal for hours on end but as school as begun, I've struggled to find time. Thanks for this video. It's really helping me think about why I want to journal everyday.
I had a problem too! It is SO hard to adjust the journaling routine while getting used to going back to school. Lately, I've been waking up 20+ min earlier, but it is definitely tough!
Yes, you have to be able to adapt to what you need, not the ideas or standards of another person. When I first started journaling, it was really easy to fall into the idea that I needed to write every single day about every little thing that happened to me. As I went on, I loosed up a bit. I learned what I liked in the way the journal itself was made, what inspired me to write and what didn't, and based my habits around those ideals. Now I write for a reason, not just because it falls within my schedule. I write because I want to remember, because I need the therapy, because I need to complain or rant. I write because I love what I read back. And that's what's so beautiful about journaling..
love your channel - so unique, helpful & inspiring! your being down to earth is so refreshing from "perfect bullet-ish journal monthly spread" videos. :) I used to journal all the time when I was younger & stopped as a teenager when my mother read some poetry I'd written to another family member to "show how good of a writer I was" which, funny enough, immediately prompted me to not only stop journaling, but to throw away everything I'd written up until that point. so dramatic! :P I'm overcoming my paranoia & trying to get into a normal routine rather than the sporadic journaling I do when I feel the need. what was I saying? uhh thank you for all of your content! :)
I find your videos SO inspirational and just awesome! Your videos motivate me to stop watching Dr. Phil and journal like I wanted to. :D Write On!! Edit: Thanks Overall Adventures for loving my comment! It made my day! 😀😀
Good stuff, Tina. I kept a journal in the early 1990s and kept it for 2 years. I started up another one in late 2004...and I'm still at it. Virtually every day for 13 years. That's a lot of words, a lot of experiences, a LOT of memories. Pretty cool. If you're thinking of keeping a journal/diary, I highly recommend it. Do you have to do it every single day? Um, no, probably not. But do what you can do--what you want to do. Seriously, it's worth it.
I started my first journal at the beginning of the year and a couple months ago I filled it up just by writing in it every night. I started a second journal and I'm halfway through it! I totally agree with staying committed :) I'm moving towards a poetry journal now and I'm super excited!
On my bad days I always enjoy watching your videos not only to keep myself motivated to journal and bullet journaling but also for all the positivity in your videos, thank you so much for that! I'm always looking forward to seeing new ones; I send you lots of love from Venezuela ❤
I freakin‘ love what you said at the beginning about why wanting to write everyday! It was so relieving and I catched myself by thinking that I somehow have to do it everyday, to be true! I also like that you are a teacher and so creative. I‘m a teacher myself and at the beginning I struggeld a lot with that new identity, because I felt I didn‘t fit the role in a typical way. I although thought I would fail at my musical and creative path or so, by choosing this way (although I didn‘t really go like ‚all in‘). That‘s what I‘m journaling about these days (it‘s a practice by Barbara Sher), because it‘s always there, but I think I got it wrong, and it‘s not neither one way or the other, because it could be both (and you‘re a beautiful example for that!!).
Your so calming and inspiring! I have been journaling since I was nine and when I was nine I thought I had to write EVER DAY! now I'm in middle school and I enjoy writing MUCH more since I watched your videos
Tiiina, I really really love your videos and spirit!!! I always get excited whenever u post a new video or picture in Instagram. Wish all the best for u.
Why in the world did you stop? You have a great message for the whole world! Keep teaching via RU-vid!
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Thank you for this video. I started journaling last month after years of resistence and you have helped me stick to it. I spent a whole day binge watching all the video in your channel 😊
I wrote sentences and topics i found on pinterest to know myself better on little pieces of paper and put all of the papers in a glass that looks nice, and if i ever don't know what to write, i just go there and choose a topic :)
OMG so happy that I found you via Leanne from Creativelyfree2bme because you are saying EXACTLY what I needed to hear... I have been struggling journaling on and off... and finding it hard to stick to it... most of it because I set the bar too high and when I don't do it every day then I give myself shit... so I end up stopping it's easier... but yeah now I'm bringing one every where and it is easier to do something everyday that way! New subbie and looking forward to seeing more of your awesome videos!
Okay the video hasn't started yet but I already gave it a thumbs up and I've been waiting for you to upload a new video since 1971 so I've been watching your older videos but I just woke up and saw you uploaded. OHO YEAHHHH!!!
This is a GREAT video! I really wanted to get in the habit of journaling every single day and that lasted for about 3 or 4 days. And then a wonderful thing happened... I quit beating myself up just because I didn't journal every day... because some days I just didn't feel the NEED to journal. Maybe next year I will try to journal every single day just to have 365 pages and make it a small notebook LOL! For now, I don't beat myself up and journal when I feel the NEED to and I'm happy with getting stuff down on paper whether it's daily, once a week or once a month. Very encouraging video. Thank you!
This is so motivational! It's just what I need too! I've been wanting to write everyday but I lack the motivation/energy. I've been rewatching your videos and you are just so inspirational! So helpful!! Thank you!! :)
I love the beginning of your video when you asked why we want to journal or journal every day. I think pressure for some people comes from social media; seeing others keep a journal. I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing because inspiration is good. But I do wonder if some feel the pressure to be like someone else and put undo pressure on themselves. Thanks for the great video.
Love your videos! Your voice sounds so calming and you are always an encouragement. I just found the love of journaling about a year ago and I'm still at it. Due to anxiety issues, it's truly a need in my daily life and I truly miss it if I don't. If I don't feel it, then I don't. Thanks for sharing!
Your videos have really inspired me to journal! I've been writing for about 2 years now, and whenever i need inspiration or motivation, your videos are always able to help me😊 Keep doing what you do, you're awesome and a huge inspiration to me!
This channel finally helped me start journaling. I've been wanting to do it for a while but I never had the motivation or commitment to do it. This video really helps :D
this video helped me out so much, like I always find trouble journaling and especially with school and everything and I always procrastinate but today, whilst listening to you, I'm like NOPE I AM GOING TO JOURNAL which I am doing right now so THANK U XXX 😄😄😘
I decided a meditation journal would be a good a good journal to begin. I get so many thoughts and I forget them after an hour or so. By keeping a meditation journal I can remember what came through and how it relates to my intensions.
First of all, I LOVE you're outfit lol and I LOVE your freaking videos! the moment you post a video I'm like helleerrr!! (it means hello in a weird way) lolz!
Your comment about having the right notebook is soo true! I tried three different journals so far in 2022 and they all felt wrong. I got gifted two journals and I feel like they're the ones that will bring me back to writing as the other three made me want to avoid the writing process.
Just subscribed to this channel and I’m already loving your videos! You’re videos inspire me to journal everyday, I just started my first journal today hence why I found your video lol 😆
TFS. I discovered you on Ali and so glad I did. I’ve been in a journaling funk your videos have been gently inspiring me. Really enjoy your intro to your videos so aesthetically pleasing. Be blessed.
So I took a bunch of your ideas from various videos and have found an INCREDIBLE, FREE, creative space to journal. I have never really finished a journal and now I am close to the end and I've been working on it for like a month. Also when I get flustered by not doing it, or not doing something specific, I remind myself of my cycle and calm down. The KIND of notebook has also been important and I didn't get that till this video. Knowing the end is night has prompted me to get my next notebook, which is just as inspiring. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, thank you. More please :)
Oh my gosh, Amy. THANK YOU so much for this. You have no idea how happy and affirmed I feel by your words. Are there any other tips or type of videos that would be helpful for you now at your stage of journaling? THANK YOU again for your comment, oh my gosh, I am truly honored & grateful
Umm, yeah actually. Finishing. I am less than 20 pages from the end, which is HUGE for me, but because I've never finished a notebook before....I feel trepidation. I think I'm moving slower BECAUSE of that... I'm very happy with my journal, and you're the first domino of that.
You made some pretty good/neglected points! LOVE YOUR JOURNAL, it’s exactly like clothes. Also it’s absolutely intimidating to have a huge chunky journal. You made strong points. I love this! Thank you for this video!! 👏🏼☺️
the video is good and you are so inspiring as always! but I also think that journaling is such an intimate thing, so if you don't feel like you need to write every single day, that's mean you're really good without this habit. you have to journal only when you feel this need, not because writing is a part of your daily routine
I WANT and NEED to journal every day cause I have the worst memory and can't remember the little things. Like, my boyfriend often says "do you remember when I did that and you said that?" And I'm like "what?". This thing kills me.
Hey Tina! Thank you so much for inspiering me and making life easier and much more relaxing. Really. Thank you. Here are some things i wrote yesterday: Streingh isnt always the strongest Wisedom is all it takes You can be visiouse... Yet silent.. Ill be sneaking near And before you know it You'll be in my JAWS
4:10 I personally am different, you inspired me to journal. I got a 240ish page journal from Wal-Mart and it has brown pages and it was daunting the first 20 pages but the more and more I wrote the more and more it became my "home". It was like I worked so hard moving in so then 20 pages in I was like "yep. That's mine"
I stared writing a journal back as far as my twenties simply because I love and am good at writing. I was off and on thru those years getting angry at myself for not being consistent at it. My excuses, my life was too boring and time. I struggled with finding time at night to do it putting it off until I would get frustrated and start up again only to repeat the same cycle of excuses. In 2017 I decided to finally commit myself to writing a journal every night regardless. I felt that with the situation I am currently in it would be vital to my sanity in taking care of a parent who lives with me and has Glaucoma as well as schizophrenia full time as well as working full time and taking care of much needed projects around the house, with all the added stress it all will bring it was only logical to develop a system of home management that ended with a nightly journal entry. When writing on the laptop made me fell empty an unconnected with myself I bought a Five Star five subject Mead spiral notebook ( they are the best and I prefer them) and started on that path. Second spiral notebook in and I am glad I stuck to is and continue to do so and find it to be fulfilling. I might skip a day every now and then but I still fill that sucker up with all my scary thoughts and words. In looking back I guess in some way with the poems and song lyrics I wrote over the years since junior high in some weird way I was journalling. Any how that's my story.
Oh my goodness, I really needed his video today! I have never really sat and thought about why I feel the need to journal everyday. It made me realise that, to me, I felt like I wasn't a 'proper' journaller if it wasn't everyday. Im giving myself permission to just write when I feel like I want to not because I have to ( even if that means once a week or everyday!) Thank you so much for your videos, I really enjoy and appreciate them. xx
Ugh I know, I wish I could find it again too!! I tried to contact Costco and no luck lol. It seems like it is something that they only created in the early 2000's :(
I want to write every day to get through the journal faster so I can get a new one LOL!Is that shallow? I just wish I could write that much, and get a new journal every few months. Being in the same journal for years can be tiring. I don't know why. Any advice?
Here's what I did when I wasn't very consistent of writing in my journal I use my phone and then whenever I had time I just copied what was ever on my phone into my actual journal that way it was kind of always staying consistent with everyday use
