thank you!!!! honestly keeping a journal (or planner!) can look very differently for people and i always want to suggest like figuring out what can work for u! i can't remember how much i wrote a out this noe as i edited this a bunch haha but like i myself started with a thin notebook where i just kept a weekly to-do list! and then after like 3? 4? months i got a proper bullet journal and continued basically the same with a weekly to-do list but decorating it cuter with stickers and stuff! now i'm on my 3rd bullet journal and honestly the basic idea stayed the same! tho now i have a habit tracker (more like task tracker) with a space for to-do tasks but mainly i began to write what "accomplishments" i've done each day which are like what meal I made haha or video game played etc..
this year i also added a planner where at the end of the day (or through out the day) i write down like a short sentence about something happening in the day— what i did in a video game, who i sent a letter to (currently its international correspondence writing month so im trying to send a letter every weekday (im a lazy butt taking the weekend off haha), and things like that! i dont know if you have heard of hobonichi techo but thats the daily a6 planner i have! something that can be fun if you want to challenge yourself could be a 3 or 5 year journal! the kind where you write each day and for 3 or 5 years and can see what u wrote the previous years as everything is on the same age for th3 same days.. it doesnt fit into my journal system right now but its something im 👀 about..
oh the other thing is i made a vent journal where i only sometimes use it when i really need to get some emotions out. it can go weeks before i use it! and here im usually glad when i dont need it haha
sorry tgis is so long,, 😅 basically journals can be used very differently! if you cant do daily, weekly is good! and its all a challenge.. i've def had times where its been hard.. just yesterday i was so sleepy i nearly forgot to do the daily page in my planner (which also no one says u have to fill every page! or do more than put a sticker on it.. im just sort of trying to challenge myself!)
also i like to make habit/task trackers be a week or like challenge myself weekly instead of monthly because its easy to just fail but when ur tracking weekly, each week is a fresh start where u can try again! so if u fail one week, thats a lot less than a month haha its like the new year resolutions where u try a few days, u then fail and give up.. here each week is a "new year" and i can try again..
,,,,,,,im sorry im just very into journaling haha sometimes feels like the only thing keeping me going.. same with stationary and crafts (the stamped onion on the back of the zine pdf is a stamp i craved myself!! same with that sparkle bullet point) and its been so freeing to have a place where i put down things i need to remember so i dont have to keep them all in my brain.. and its a good feeling.. it grounds me... so i wish other people would also figure out what feels good for them!
so yeah,,, dont give up! just figure out what works for u!!! for myself, unless i decorate my journal with stivkers i wouldnt be able to actually use it.. because having it look cute motivates me...
uh if u are curious what my journal looks like, my journal account is https://www.instagram.com/onionboi_journal/ 😅
even if u start by just writing a sentence or 2 each day and then moving on to having longer writing entries some days, thatd be real good! its all about enjoyment, at least for me, you gotta enjoy it! otherwise.. its like whats the point?? (unless its a vent journal.. obviously the point is to vent haha)
so um yeah,,,, haha i hope i didnt scare you off, journaling is wonderful!! however it looks and works for an individual 😊