Your Story Matters, Start Writing it Down Today
Packed with real-life stories of history's greatest journalers, reflections from my own experiences studying how journaling helps improve our lives, and actionable insights for you, it's like having a close friend guide you on your journaling practice.
On Time and Resolutions ⏳
The Journaling Guide From 24 Letters Hi friends, I've got something new to share with you! Keep an eye out for an email from me later this week with more details... 2025 is nearly here, and in the quiet moments of reflection, I'm thinking a lot about time. The greatest takeaway from spending nearly three years at home with my family before returning to work is that time is the most important measurement of our lives. It is the vessel in which we exist. It's where everyone we love and...
Journaling for Your Mental Health 🌅
The Journaling Guide 24 Letters Thursday was World Mental Health Day. From the World Health Organization: The overall objective of World Mental Health Day is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilize efforts in support of mental health. The Day provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work, and what more needs to be done to make mental health care a reality for people worldwide. In my writing about...
Time is Short, Start Today ⌛️
The Journaling Guide 24 Letters People have journaled through some of the most consequential moments in history. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark wrote as they led the Corp of Discovery through the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains as they followed the Missouri River. Full of fear of the unknown, Anne Frank journaled in her secret annex while the world burned outside her window. With the weight of a strained empire on his shoulders, Marcus Aurelius wrote his Meditations on the frontier...
Transform Your Life, Five Minutes at a Time ✨
The Journaling Guide 24 Letters Hey Reader, Welcome to The Journaling Guide, your five-minute personal retreat to help you succeed in your week. Here we go! We’re just coming off the Labor Day holiday here in the United States, and like many, I went with my family to have some fun. We ended up at Old Orchard Beach in Maine and spent a few days playing in the sand, enjoying the massive arcade and amusement park, and exploring the famous pier. I made some fantastic memories and took many photos...
Journaling With the Birds 🍃
The Journaling Guide 24 Letters Hey Reader, Welcome to The Journaling Guide, your five minute personal retreat at the beginning of a new week. Let's jump right in. The author Amy Tan is best known for her 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club, which was adapted into a film in 1993. Since then, she has written numerous novels, children's books, and short story collections, and she even published her memoir in 2017. In late 2016, at the age of 65, Tan turned her focus to something new: nature...
The Power and Pitfalls of Streaks 📔
24 Letters The Journaling Guide Hey Reader, "Last week, I reached a significant personal milestone in my journaling journey: my 600th consecutive daily gratitude journal entry. I'm pleased with this achievement and happy to share it with you all! Yet, I can't help having some complicated feelings about focusing too much on what productivity nerds like me call streaks, which celebrate doing something consistently without missing a day. There's an App for That Streaks have a place in getting...
Your Journal is Your Soundtrack 📓
24 Letters Your Journal is Your Soundtrack Read time: 4 minutes. Hey Reader, I’ve been a little quiet here. The hiatus wasn’t planned, but it was necessary. Thanks for your patience. I’m glad to be back. What's Your Soundtrack? A few years ago, I read Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking by Jon Acuff. It's a good book, and you can read some of my thoughts about it on the blog. Soundtracks, which explores how much fear can influence and poison our thinking, came out at a time...
Did you Journal Today? 📝
Hello! This month was a little quieter on the blog. However, I did write several entries on journaling, including one detailing a Shortcut that I use to quickly access my daily gratitude journal on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac. I also wrote about the rumor that Apple might be getting into the world of journaling with a new app coming in iOS 17, expected to be released later this year. More will be revealed in June at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference. While it's just a rumor, I hope it's...
Packed with real-life stories of history's greatest journalers, reflections from my own experiences studying how journaling helps improve our lives, and actionable insights for you, it's like having a close friend guide you on your journaling practice.