Journal that actually works for me!

 Hello! Thank you so much for dropping by. This is my very first post and would like to start it by sharing my journaling experience.

                 

I can absolutely understand how difficult it is to start journaling after watching all those perfect journals online and the effort to find just the perfect journal and a method to go with it. I, myself, have been journaling since 2013. But it was just one simple diary where I used to jot down my day or emotions, nothing fancy. As years passed, that daily diary turned into an occasional diary and later into a forgotten one.

Last year, I started again with journaling but this time around pinterest and instagram introduced me to a whole other world of journaling. The different types of journals and different method of journaling overwhelmed me. However I was much committed this time and about a year of trial and error I have now found a ideal journaling method that I am totally rocking!

My current journal is inspired by Midori Traveller's Notebook (MTN). I have made this one myself since these journals are not easily available in my country. The best thing about MTN type journal is that it allows me to keep multiple journals in one, saving my effort and time to maintain many journals which later becomes a nuisance. Each of my inserts act as an individual journal. Currently I am having 4 inserts:

• Insert 1 is my yearly planner.
• Insert 2 is my monthly planner.
• Insert 3 is my brain dump journal
• And Insert 4 is my prompt journal

Well, I will be showing inside of each insert in next post. The idea behind this journal is: every month the inserts will keep changing (except the yearly one) and by the end of the year I will have 3 different journals.

• The planner- which will include the yearly insert + all 12 monthly inserts.
• The brain dump journal
• The prompt journal (which honestly, I haven't started yet since I am still working on my earlier one.) which will have 12 inserts, one for each month.

The huge advantage I am getting from this journal is I have everything I need in one place at a given time and less excuse to not journal. Best part: you can customise it to your personal needs by adding inserts whenever you want. For example: if in future I want to add a health journal or a finance recorder, I only need to keep adding inserts and Voila!

Let me know what what you think of it. Also what kind of journals do you keep? Do you keep a single journal or different journals for everything?

-Sarah