Journaling is all the rage these days. This powerful mindfulness practice has grown in popularity by leaps and bounds. The most common form of journaling is simply writing down your thoughts, ideas, and opinions about what’s going on in your life. Bullet journaling is popular for people far more artistic than I am — which doesn’t take much! Often people will start a gratitude journal, in order to improve their mindset and mood.
I absolutely recommend a gratitude journal, but I don’t stop there. I use a five notebook journaling system, and recommend that my clients do as well. (You could use a five-subject notebook, but I find that decorating the covers of each notebook is part of the mental health boost.)
Each notebook is used for a different journaling topic. The first is for gratitude. Second is positive affirmations. The third one is for rockstar moments, things I did well during the day. The fourth notebook is for RAKs, random acts of kindness. And the last one is simply titled, yawp! — that’s for moments of courage in my day-to-day life.