Reading a book about the XVIII-XIX century or watching a movie telling about the events of that era, you must notice the character (and sometimes not one) leading his diary. Then for a while the keeping of diaries was forgotten, but now this hobby is gaining momentum again. True, not everyone knows how to properly keep a personal diary. Well, the gap in knowledge needs to be filled - that's what we'll do.
How to start a personal diary?
One of the first questions that arises in front of those wishing to have a personal diary is where to lead it - in a beautiful notebook or on the Internet. The choice is not easy to make, so it is worth determining what is important for you - the availability of the diary anywhere and at any time or the opportunity to share your thoughts with other people. After the storage medium is selected, you need to decide what will be your diary. Will it be a traveler's notes, stories about events that are important to you, a diary dedicated to your child, or it will be your ideal listener, to whom you will be able to state all your fears and ideas. Further it will be logical to decide how to design a personal diary. The way of registration should be chosen depending on the content and media. For example, the Internet will offer you background templates and font, but in how to draw a diary on paper you are not limited - you can also glue the photo, and draw watercolors, and markers with felt-tip pens. Now when it became clear how to create a personal diary, let's talk more about how to fill it. And start with a paper version.
How to keep a paper diary?
Probably, it makes no sense to give advice on how to beautifully keep a personal diary - the concept of beauty for everyone has its own, but a few practical moments when working with a diary should be taken into account:
- Find yourself a convenient place and time to fill the diary - someone is better written at night, when the moon peers out the window, and to someone the dawn haze and the twitter of waking birds help create the right mood. Do not need to turn communication with a diary into a duty, do it only when you want it. Otherwise, pleasure will turn into a routine, and instead of an outlet you will get another reason for irritation.
- Do not pay special attention to style and spelling - while you remember the rules of the Russian language, the desire to speak out may be lost.
- Spilling out the emotions in the record, return to them later - perhaps it will help you look at the situation from the other side and allow you to let go of resentment and anger.
- Take care that the diary is protected from other people's eyes. If you are worried that your records will become public, then you will not be able to express freely, and therefore the idea of communicating with the diary will be a failure.
How to make a personal diary on the Internet?
Resources for maintaining diaries of the network are now mass, for example, livejournal.com, diary.ru, MindMix.ru, liveinternet.ru or blog.ru. How among this variety choose what you need? You can see what kind of resource your friends use or stop their choice on the resource that is more understandable and pleasant for you on the interface. The main thing when registering and filling out such a diary is to remember that some records can be personal (and nobody but you will see them), and some can be put to public scrutiny. In the second case it is necessary to show respect to the reader and try to express thoughts competently, clearly and interestingly.
How to fulfill a desire with a personal diary?
A personal diary can help not only in assessing difficult situations or your weaknesses, but also the desire can help to fulfill. You've heard about the method of visualizing desires? Its complexity is to keep in memory the image of your dreams. Not everyone can keep concentration for a long time, and the imagination is not good for everyone, but in a diary you can describe your desire very accurately. Imagine what is well described (or maybe you also choose the appropriate images) is much easier. And after that it will only be necessary to open the page every day with a desire, to imagine how good it will be for you when it is fulfilled, and the dream will come to your life.