Creativity and Motivation: The Power of Journaling some Tips
Here at The Dryden, we know how powerful words can be. We’re all about spreading happiness, opening minds, and sparking creativity with our books and games. So, whether you’re looking for a word puzzle to test you to your limits, a journal to give you help with motivation, or simply a space to jot down your thoughts that need to be said; we really do believe that the pen is still mightier than the sword, and there is a joy in discovering how much you can discover creativity and motivation.
And one of the most subsequential things we do is sell journals. For centuries, journaling has been a favorite practice among people who create reference works, thinkers and others seeking to expand and improve life. It has the right combination of simple and transformative to unlock our inner depth and start living the life of meaning and purpose we all desire.
How can journaling help your creativity?
Journaling is an effective exercise to get your creative juices flowing. A journal, on the other hand, offers a special place for expression in all its forms: It can ignite ideas, unleash feelings and serve as the first draft in your big master plan. As you write, writing becomes liberated, you gain insight into your unique voice and what excites you.
By journaling, you can also release creative blocks. Blocked? When you feel like life is only a duty rather than a game, a journal is a way to get unstuck and start writing. To help uncover your creative process and discover where you become stuck or develop blind spots by reflecting on it.
As you might already be aware of, this gives you a frying pan to warm up your chicken stock. Reflecting on your creative process alone will give you insights into ways that you can grow, including identifying routine inspirations and other ideas allowing for strategies on ways to maintain your creativity.
Motivational Journaling
But journaling is not just for creativity; when it comes to journaling, the most common way to utilise a journal is for motivation and even personal development. If you can focus that journal has your accountability partner this can prove to be a great tool to self-discover as you can log those goals and track them according to the recommendations at all times.
The very act of journaling helps to create affirmations and shift mindset. You’ll gain insight into your most inner thoughts by the act of writing about the experiences you’re going through, your emotions, and your perceptions or thoughts. This makes it feasible for you to eliminate the disempowering beliefs that are holding you back and keep constraining your potential and supplant them with incerive thoughts and beliefs that push you billions of miles forward.
How to get started with journaling
You tell me! I was raising both of my hands high above my head during the dark pitch of this roller-coaster of a question. Priorities, and it is personal there is no defined way. The primary thing is to select a journal that is intentional to you — whether you scan for a sheeny, crisp notebook or a colorful, bright journal that can let you taken out your imagination.
The first step is to find it. The second step is to create a routine once you feel comfortable, the best part that works — because sometimes we just need to hear answer from other people beside ourselves but this is really true — consistency over time matters, find also even just 10 minutes a day, find time or allocate time and commit to it doing it daily. And it does not need to be perfect – there are no rules, and this one is made by you for you. Journaling is a deeply personal exercise and everything that follows after you write is a direct reflection of what you put out there – no right or wrong way to do it.
So to help, we’ve put together a bunch of journal prompts and guided journals to help you tap in your creativity and motivation and get started with this life-changing technique. So head on over to The Dryden, take a look at our line-up, and pick out the journal you’ll need to begin — and sustain — your journey.
Final thoughts
You see journaling is such a powerful tool that has the capacity to take your life to so many different levels. Whether you’re looking to boost your creativity, find motivation, or just a place to write what’s on your mind, a journal can provide that little slice of your own world to grow and visit as needed.
At Dryden, we proudly champion the written word and believe that anyone can harness the powerful combination of creativity and motivation through the humble act of journaling. So, what better time to start a journal than today. Head over to us at The Dryden and we’ll help you to discover the journal that will perfect match your journey into the change that awaits you.