JRNL 101

Journaling helps you become more effective at life.

Writing removes mental blocks and allows you to use all of your brainpower to better understand yourself, others and the world around you. As each day passes, journaling allows you to record events to give you meaning and capture the hidden lessons that life teaches you. Luckily, there is no wrong way to write an entry into a journal and JRNL makes writing entries so much more expedient and fun to do.

Here is a list of 101 benefits you’ll get from JRNL, and this is just a start.

Record your life story:

• Capture family and personal stories
• Become a better storyteller
• Improve family unity
• Help your posterity know where they come from
• Fill the gaps in genealogy
• Share life stories
• Create a full life history with comments from family/friends
• Encourage other family members to get into the habit
• Publish archival quality books for family records
• Collaborate in journals about family events

Personal Healing:

• Heals relationships
• Heals the past
• Dignifies all events
• Provide honest, trusting, non-judgmental views
• Strengthens your sense of self worth
• Puts your life in better balance
• Helps you recall and reconstruct past events
• Acts as your personal counselor
• Soothes troubled memories
• Helps you identify and reconcile peaks and valleys in life
• Leverage therapy sessions for better and faster results
• Reveal and track patterns and cycles
• Avoid harmful repetitive behaviors
• Remember loved ones

Stress Relief:

• Reduce the scatter in your life
• Increase focus on the important things
• Gain mental stability
• Keep thoughts manageable so they can be changed or integrated
• Process your thoughts or concerns in a natural and organized way
• Gain a deeper level of learning, order, action and release
• Release pent-up thoughts and emotions
• Empower yourself
• Disentangle thoughts and ideas
• Link inner thinking with outer events
• Detach and let go of the past
• Re-live the past with today's experience and perspective

Know Yourself Better:

• Build self confidence and self knowledge
• Record past events as inventory of your life
• Increase wisdom and insight
• Feel better about yourself
• Identify your values
• Understand how you articulate things
• Connect causes to effects
• Reveal the depths of who you are
• Clarify thoughts, feelings and behavior
• Reveal and discover your greater potential
• Become a third-party observer, recorder or counselor
• Reveal your processes - how you think, learn and create
• Develop awareness of personal beliefs
• Self-discovery
• Reveals different aspects of self
• See yourself as an individual
• Connect yourself to the bigger picture
• Create a close, intimate, accepting, trusting, caring, honest, non-judgmental environment
• Accesses the subconscious
• Find the missing pieces in your memory
• Help solve the mysteries of life
• Find more meaning in life
• Stimulate personal growth

Personal Development:

• Enable yourself to live life to the fullest
• Be fun, playful, humorous and show your personality
• Express yourself and open up your creative side
• Plant seeds for ideas and ways to better solve problems
• Sort and group processes
• Integrate life experiences and personal learning
• Move towards wholeness and growth, to who you want to be
• Identify opportunities and create greater results in life
• Explore your spirituality
• Focus and clarify your desires and needs
• Build up self expression
• Enhance career and community
• Learn to express yourself better
• Record your life and measure results
• Exercise your mental muscles
• Improve personal integrity
• Enhance breakthroughs
• Develop the writer in you
• Maximize time and efficiency
• Explore dreams, nightmares and fantasies
• Track and measure what is important
• Record your diet
• Track your fitness goals
• Identify personal milestones and relive your progress

Problem Solving:

• Ease decision making
• Gain new perspectives
• Bring things together
• Reflect on past events by creating tags

Flexible and Easy to Use:

• Applicable to any issue in your life
• Web and mobile apps make it easy to take time for yourself
• Meets your needs and processing methods
• Equally effective for left and right brained people
• No right way to keep a journal as long as it works for you
• Self-starting and motivating

Enhance Instincts and Creativity:

• Improve self trust
• Awaken your inner voice
• Direct intention and discernment
• Provide insight
• Improve sensitivity
• Interpret your symbols and dreams
• Increase memory of events
• Stretch your IQ