Using a journal can change your life! Yes, really. Journaling can help you become an effective thinker. It is also a great way of becoming a more effective person in practice. Effective thinkers are also effective communicators. These effects will also affect other sectors of your life! Journals offer you an effective way of figuring it all out. Work, life, self. Journaling, writing on paper, puts a space between you and your challenges. Thereby giving you a more objective view of the challenge before you. For in that space the solution to your challenge has room to grow. Writing aids in clarifying what is going on. Just processing and thinking about stuff in our heads only can lead to distortions in our thoughts. However, writing things down lends us to be more practical and factual with the information floating around in our heads. When you re-read what you have written. Look for things that are exaggerated or distorted from the truth. Correct that right away to give you a more accurate picture in the future. Journaling helps us avoid making the same mistakes over and over. It helps us to remember great ideas and discoveries and insights. Many things that we fail to capture could be gone forever. Keep your journal on you, have it handy at all times to record what you want to remember. The key value of journals is in re-reading them on a regular basis. And watch how your life unfolds in near real time! Happy Journaling!