Want to lose a few kilos or start a new business? How about something simple like cooking biscuits for your grandkids.
Writing down personal goals, including step by step lists of how to reach those goals, combining a planner with a journal, is a great way to make use of a journal in the new year. Even favourite family recipes and when you prepare them is a great memory and a wonderful feature to include in your journal.
How about how you spend your day? What about recording your creative talent? Here's a journal that you can use that will do all that and more.
3.GRANDMA'S GRATITUDE JOURNAL
In the midst of life's challenges, maintaining a journal listing of all the things you have to be grateful for can be especially helpful. But hardship or trials aren't required to keep such a list; jotting down expressions of gratitude, no matter how small, on a daily or weekly basis can help keep life in perspective through good times as well as bad.
Being grateful can be an incredible way to cope with stress, making you more resilient when facing stressors. There are simple strategies to nurture and increase feelings of gratitude in yourself, which can be easily be incorporated into your daily schedule by taking 5 minutes each day to document your progress in a gratitude journal. And these journal entries are a wonderful part of your legacy to share with your family.