Decision to start writing in a journal was one of the most important decisions in my life in terms of size of the decision to the impact it brings to the quality of my life. Although I started it on a more intuitional level, I recently searched the internet for reasons for starting a journal. The result was a nice pleasing surprise that I want to share here.

1. It organises your thoughts

   

2. Most of the worlds successful people in history used to journal on a daily basis

   Perhaps if you have one historical person in mind, you’d find this list of diarists pretty entertaining to find out whether it has that person.

3. Great ideas go in the journal and are never forgotten

   

4. Writing in a journal can help develop your creativity

   

5. You can reflect on your past and self-develop

   

6. It improves your ability to focus

   

7. Place to record good advice from others (people you know or quotes of great people in history)

   

8. Write down your mistakes in life, so that you never step on them ever again

   

9. Sometimes I write poems

   

10. Hey! Where else would you keep your passwords and login information to dozens of websites?

    

Do you have a different reason for regularly writing in a journal?