Keeping a Monthly Journal
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I’m not always good about writing in a daily journal, but I have found a way to keep track of the highlights of the month. I find a photo that I like in a magazine, on the web or just one of my own and I insert it into a word document, add some blank lines and a month/year and PRESTO!
I’ve been doing this since 2006. I start with a new folder each year for the current months, but when the year is over I add them to a folder that contains all of the previous years.
The monthly highlights journal doesn’t have a lot of detail. Some of the entries might read:
- David’s Graduation
- Fenced our yard
- Olivia Grace was born
- Start planning for Australia
As we get older and the years and events blend together, I have found that this is a useful and creative way to track the highlights of our month/year.
My lack of journaling is not for lack oof time, it's lack of interesting things to write on a day to day basis. But I like your idea, because I'm pretty sure even I could come up with four interesting highlights in any given month. OK, maybe only three. Surely two. Alright, alright, I admit it, most months it hovers between zero and one.
But then some of my months would look like this:
2 Jet Pen Orders
1 Goulet Pens Order
1 trip to Flax
Hey, that's exciting!
A very interesting thought. I do not journal daily but when I do, I can fill pages ….
However, it would still be nice to capture certain things when they actually happen as sometimes emotions can be pretty different at the time compared to a few day later when writing about them.