Why you should keep your personal diary (not a blog)

We all know from childhood that people keep diaries. In children, it is the notebooks with stickers and mental suffering. But adults often stop to keep a diary - too little time, no time to think, etc. And yet, many confuse the personal diary with personal blogs. What is a blog and why you should keep it all, I will tell you with an example from my personal life.

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What needs to get into the blog

In general, wrote in his diary need all that bothers you, and very happy - the main thing to be honest with yourself. If you write about work, do not forget to describe your joy and punctures, achievements and mistakes. Tagged people and events, projects and locations. Describe your emotions honestly and embarrassments. Required events described assign points - from 1 to 5.

Main honesty and openness - both in the confessional.

Diary - not a blog

You will never be honest in public. You do not write that the project you have failed and blame Once you're in it. You do not write about problems with someone you love and that your family member with health problems. You do not write bold plans, as afraid to be mocked.

All personal blog just write something for which they praise. Only closed from prying blog will allow you to write in it all that way, as you have seen and experienced.

Blog diary is not a hindrance.

Story

I almost worked for a year at the company, which is the best place to work in the post-Soviet space for creative and thoughtful people - want to work there almost everything. There you hail were falling goodies in the form of a convenient office, the ideal furniture and excellent equipment, which others only dream of. People around - just a dream. However, while working there, I felt the discomfort of the current during the years of rapid growth of corporate culture that just depresses me (she just did not fit me, that does not mean that it is bad). All his thoughts almost every day, I began to write in a diary program on the iPhone. There could be to tag people, events and places. Celebrate projects that concern recording. And most importantly, to put the records points - from 1 to 5. Why all this?

You live day by day and are experiencing a lot of emotions - good and bad. But our memory is so arranged that in summing up the results, such as monthly, we incorrectly perceive what happened - basically remains good, and negative our brain pushes out of the picture. And on the basis of the remainder of the picture you're doing the wrong conclusions about where your site and what it is necessary to engage the rest of life. Examples of such an incorrect analysis of the mass of: the army of forgotten bullying and beating and there are only good memories, you do not think about old classmates nothing wrong - everything is rosy and lace, his student years - idealized and forgotten are coming before us a solid party and pleasant ocean experiences. All this was not so, so you recreate it in his subconscious mind and want to be back a little, to go to school and go to college.

Because of my history... The company dreams in my head that I forgot all the negative things, bit by bit there was a single oil painting in the program and received a diary 3.2 points out of 5 for the record-keeping time, got my own assessment and colleagues and partners (now I do not rely on their memories of working with them, and analysis). Taking the decision to dismiss, I ran through the notes and understand - I'm not holding anything in the company's dream.

On the programs for journaling the tried me, I shall tell the following story.

Are you keeping a diary?