To understand what to write in a personal diary, it is enough to decide for what purpose it starts. On its pages you can pour out experiences, share dreams and plans, set goals and describe how their achievement is progressing. At first it may seem that there is nothing to write about, the notes will be short, but over time this process will turn into a habit, thoughts themselves will fall on paper.

Life story

Every day in life something happens: good and bad, global and small. Everything deserves attention. The entries in your personal diary are never unimportant. If a person wrote about some event, then at that moment it mattered to him. Even the entry “Nothing happens on the 10th day” has its own meaning, it teaches a person what inaction leads to or that it is not always necessary to strive for something, sometimes you need to take a break from achieving goals.

Emotion Graph

If expressing your thoughts is still difficult, you can try to keep a graph of emotions. Every day, you should describe the strongest emotion, what caused it, what external manifestation it had. At first, entries can be short, for example, “Angry. They promoted a colleague, not me. Decided to look for a new job. This will allow you to identify markers of your behavior, to understand whether a person reacts correctly to failures and achievements.

To make it more fun and easier, you can supplement the names of emotions with drawings, for example, express anger with lightning, joy with a smiley, happiness with the sun, love with a heart. Emotions can not be sketched, but evaluated on a five-point scale. The good ones are positive, the bad ones are negative. At the end of each month, you need to draw a visual graph to see how the mood jumped.

The path to the goal

One day you can set a goal and paint the steps to achieve it. Then, every day, describe what was done for this. Even if nothing has been done, it is worth writing about it, and explaining to yourself what exactly prevented further movement, and how this difficulty can be overcome. Gradually, a person will learn to write not only about goals, but also about other events in life.

Talk to yourself

One of the reasons why a person should start such a diary is the opportunity to unload. Not all secrets want to share with other people, but keeping everything in yourself is harmful. If there is a feeling that everything is boiling inside and you urgently need to talk about your experiences, you can tell yourself about them by describing them in a diary. Psychologists recommend that at the moment of increased emotionality, write down experiences and feelings by hand. This contributes to the release of anger, anger, resentment better.

Talk to other people

To understand the situation with a person who does not let go, psychologists advise writing a letter to him. Of course, it is not necessary to send it, since it is written rather for the author himself. You need to contact the person directly. You can write anything to him, the more colorful the emotions in the letter, the better. This will help to internally resolve the situation that is burdensome, improve relations with a person in real life.

Assess your behavior

Here you need to feel the line between evaluation and criticism. In the diary, you can praise yourself for good and wise deeds. Bad and stupid - describe in more detail to understand why they were committed. This will allow you to maintain a balance in self-esteem, bring it back to normal. You should not scold yourself, even making mistakes, a person gains important experience.

Describe your favorite dialogues

If an important or pleasant conversation took place during the day, it can be recorded in a diary using direct speech. The same goes for bad conversations. Their description is no less important, in this way it will be possible to throw off the negative.

Record important dates

Let there be a place in the diary for dates of birth. It is not necessary to start a separate page for this, you can write about it in the main records. If the diary is kept in electronic form, then finding the birthday of an old friend is not difficult.

Thanks

You can keep a separate gratitude journal or write in general. You can be grateful to anyone and anything. You can thank yourself, the Universe, circumstances, events, other people. This will help you tune in to a positive wave, become more optimistic, understand that a lot of positive things happen in life, even if we are talking about small joys, but in total they are also significant.

Making decisions

When you need to make an important decision, a complex process takes place in the brain to make your work easier and unload, and you need a diary. You can write in it all the pros and cons of both sides of the decision. Prescribe how life will change if one side or the other is accepted.

Don't write but draw

If a person does not know how to write a diary, you can replace part of the text with drawings, collages, applications. For example, having visited a movie, you can first stick a ticket from the cinema, and then describe what you liked about the movie, what touched you, and what disappointed you. You can start each entry with your photo (more convenient if the diary is electronic). Even if it is an ordinary photo, where a person is in pajamas and with a cup of coffee, it will eloquently describe the mood.

Fears and hopes

If something worries or frightens a person, it is worth describing it on paper. This is how the “enemy” moves from the head to the diary. It is also worth writing about hopes in order to fill your life with positive thoughts. It is worth describing your state not only at the peak moment of inspiration or anxiety, but also in the future, in order to understand whether the situation worsened or resolved, whether your hopes were justified or they collapsed. It also does not hurt to analyze the situation in order to understand why such a result turned out.

If it seems that there is nothing to write in a personal diary, you need to put it aside for a while. Don't force yourself to write, but don't leave your diary too long. You can train yourself to write at least every Sunday, summing up the results of the week. In order for the diary to have a therapeutic effect, it must be periodically reread.

A diary can be a chronicle of your daily life, a summary of your most personal thoughts, or simply serve as a cheat sheet to remember what needs to be done and when. There are no definite rules for keeping a diary, and it all depends on your passions and preferences, but there are general recommendations for those who decide to start keeping their own diary, which are given below.

Steps

Keeping your own diary

First you need to decide where you will keep your diary. Will it be a notepad, a notebook, a Word program on a computer, or another text editor like Red Notebook? It is only necessary to make sure that your future diary is of good quality, since it will be used daily and will have to be stored for quite a long time. In addition, it must be taken into account that the diary will accompany you on your travels and trips, so it is better that it has a hard cover and thick paper pages (unless, of course, this is an electronic diary).

Pick up good writing utensils. If you choose to use text editors, you can skip this step. Choose a fountain pen that you enjoy writing with and that doesn't jam or leak. You can also use a pencil, but in this case, be aware that graphite tends to wear out, and you may lose your notes after a while. Everyone has their own preferences when choosing a pen: some prefer specific brands, some just like to write with gel, fountain or ballpoint pens. Think about which of these types is most convenient for you, which one does not distract from your thoughts. This is very important to determine from the very beginning.

Set a time for journaling. No matter where you write, it's best to set a specific time and stick to that schedule all the time. This will keep your journaling regular and make journaling a habit. And if you like to write down thoughts that come to mind right away, then choose a pocket notebook or a compact notebook that is convenient to carry in your purse or pocket. This will allow you to make sketches, and at the end of the day summarize them in a final form.

Choose an environment that best supports journaling. Try to write in different places and at different times until you find the best option and the environment in which you write best. It can be your bedroom or a cafe where you can concentrate with a cup of aromatic tea or cappuccino, or it can be your office. The main thing is that you feel how words form into thoughts, and thoughts into small sketches about what worries you at the moment.

Write the date and time after each entry. This may seem like a waste of time, but the fact is that the events described in the diaries, as a rule, are clearly tied to the time and date of their description, and years later you will be able to recreate a picture of your past to the minute.

Start writing. Just start writing down your thoughts as they arise. That is, write what comes to your mind first. If you are at a dead end, then simply describe what you did during the day, or try to formulate the events that made the strongest impression on you lately. Such a beginning can take you out of a dead end and a second wind will appear when it is written by itself, easily and simply.

• Try to perceive your diary as thoughts on paper. It is not at all necessary that every thought has an ideal formulation from an artistic and literary point of view. Do not be afraid of confusion, grammatical and punctuation errors. After all, this is your diary, and this is your space in which you can record and organize your thoughts and feelings.
• Do not be shy. If you don't plan to show your magazine to anyone else, remember that it's only for you and don't worry about what other people think. Feel free to express yourself, because that freedom is what keeping a diary is all about.

1. Be creative. Try different styles of writing in your diary. You can, for example, write poetry, write scripts, or use a literary device such as a stream of consciousness account. In addition, you can make sketches, pencil sketches, illustrations and collages in the diary.

   Know when to stop. The inability to stop writing is akin to overeating. Learn to stop in time and remember that you should always leave something for tomorrow. Don't run out to the last drop, try to save some for the next entry. Sometimes it is useful to determine in advance the amount of writing in the size of one page.

   Reread your notes regularly. This can be done either immediately after writing, or after a few days. This will allow you to make some adjustments to your notes along the way and analyze situations and events in terms of the past days.

   Keep writing. The more entries in your diary, the more valuable it becomes. Train yourself to write regularly and never stop writing for long periods of time.

   Keeping a diary for students

   1. To begin with, the student needs to determine the purpose of the diary. This may be the task of the teacher to record their impressions of the books they read, or the timing of certain life events, or the need to keep records of the sports training regimen. Be that as it may, the purpose of the diary must be determined from the very beginning, from the very first entry.

      Stick to a specific schedule. You will probably need a certain number of entries to complete the task. Don't leave everything to the last day. If you're not sure you can stick to your schedule, set an alarm for when you plan to write, or ask someone close to you to remind you to fill out your diary.

      Date each entry. Begin each new entry with a date. You can also mark the exact time of the recording.

      Write introductions. After the date, write one or more sentences as a preamble to the entry. Here are some tips to keep in mind when keeping a diary as a school assignment:

      • Describe what you have learned. Write about how you plan to apply what you learned in your own life.
      • Quote those passages from the book or article that you think are the most significant. After the quote, write why you liked this idea.
      • Describe your thoughts or impressions about the assignment. For example, if you have to write a diary about a book you read, you can share your impressions of the characters or events described in it as you read it.

   2. Write in the first person. The diary is your personal narrative, so it must be written in the first person. This means that you must use the pronouns "I", "my", or "mine".

      Stick to the required length of entries. If your assignment clearly defines the length of each entry, then try to adhere to these requirements. If there are no clear instructions, then focus on the number of words from 200 to 300 per entry.

      Write conclusions. Since your entries are the result of your reflections and descriptions of impressions, each entry should have a clear summary, set out in one or two sentences in the form of a summary. For example, you can start the conclusion with the phrase: "Today I learned that..." or "I would like to know more about...".

   • It is not at all necessary to address the diary to someone. Just start writing.
   • Don't rush, don't rush, and don't fuss. Write calmly and with concentration. This will make your entries more informative.
   • If you take an extended break from your writing, don't try to fill in the gap by describing everything that happened during that period. This will ruin your diary, it will kill the sense of immediacy and freshness of what is being described. Just keep writing as if there was no break, describing the thoughts and feelings that come to your mind at the moment, and along the way, the necessary memories will automatically come to your mind and pour out onto the page of your diary. Think of your diary as a snapshot of your life, not as an all-encompassing video describing every second of your life. Exactly!
   • Sometimes we are so overwhelmed with negativity that we can write exclusively about it, obsessing over everything bad and nightmarish. Try to remember something good that happened during the described period of time. Subsequently, when you re-read your notes, looking back, you will be pleased to remember funny and funny events, this will make you smile and cheer you up!
   • Write dialogues and interesting conversations. Use direct speech like in books.
   • Writing can take over your head. Maybe once you start writing, you won't be able to stop, and this activity will become your lifelong habit!
   • Sometimes inspiration comes in the bathroom when you take a shower. Try to catch these thoughts and write them down in your diary, summarizing your day.
   • If your diary is successful, and you will become a famous person. then it will be an excellent base for a book of memoirs.
   • Write about certain periods, indicating their specific time. For example, you can write out the lesson schedule: 1st lesson from X:XX in the morning to X:XX in the afternoon, 2nd..., and so on.
   • Write the addresses, phone numbers, email of your best friend. You will be interested in reading this in the future.

   Warnings

   • If your diary contains extremely personal thoughts, make sure that it is kept in a safe place, out of the reach of others.
   • Never take your diary to school. In 90% of cases, this leads to a loss of privacy.

Today, due to the development of technology, many do not remember that there used to be personal diaries that kept the secrets, secrets and desires of the owner.

Today, many people blog on the Internet, but everyone understands that even a visited, popular blog cannot replace a treasured little book with a personal one.

Yes, personal diaries are a thing of the past for people. But there are people for whom keeping a personal diary is not a hobby or an interesting activity, but a way of life.

The most intimate is recorded in a personal diary, something that you do not want to disclose to the public, something that you want to keep forever in your memory and heart.

There are no boundaries in keeping a diary. This is a reflection of the feelings, desires and soul of a person. Such a book, after years, reminds of the most important events of life, keeps touching moments and experiences in memory.

In Western countries, psychologists advise to start such notebooks and little books that absorb the mood of a person.

Keeping a diary helps you understand your desires and aspirations, better understand your own ego and accept yourself as you are.

A personal diary can be safely called an encyclopedia of one's own life. By reading it, you will understand the mistakes and omissions, learn to do the right thing and not make mistakes in the future.

In order for the book to evoke such emotions in the future, it is worth keeping a personal diary correctly, reflecting in it the experiences, mood, details and subtleties of your life.

Note! The first step towards keeping a notebook with secrets is to choose the right notebook. Beginners are better off starting with books with a small number of pages.

Do not be afraid that you will not write them down. Life is diverse, joy is replaced by sadness, and a smile is replaced by tears, so you will always have something to tell your paper friend.

Table: rules for maintaining a "paper friend"

Appearance	In order to delight the book in the future, choose a beautiful notebook. It is worth paying attention to the density of the paper product. The diary is meant to accompany you throughout your life, so it is better to buy a good written book.
Decor	You need to design a book with your own hands based on the hobbies and character of the person.
Information	Write down all emotions and experiences in the book: from anger and unexpected outbursts of anger to unprecedented joy. This diversifies the diary and makes it thematically beautiful. Share your innermost with him, because then this information will be needed for introspection. Written visualization of emotions helps to find harmony, set priorities and goals in life correctly.
Storage	Keep your paper friend out of the reach of other family members. If you have a separate room, then it is better to put it under your pillow and refer to it as needed.
Reference frequency	Do not think that if you have such a notebook, you need to write something into it every day. The entered information must come from the soul. Leading is the desire to speak out and convey emotions, because many have no one to share joy or sorrow with. Therefore, for them, a personal notebook with experiences, fears and hobbies is just a godsend. Write down everything there that struck you, subdued, delighted or worried. It doesn't matter how often you write. The main thing is to pour out real emotions on paper, and not an artistic essay about your life.
What to write	You need to write down in the diary all the events that you want to keep in memory. Each person is different. Many write about love affairs, suffering and experiences. Others prefer to describe trips to the theater, express their admiration for the world around them.
Confidentiality	It is advisable to keep a diary alone. Only one on one with himself a person opens up and admits to himself what he was previously silent about. Don't tell anyone about keeping a book.

Ideas for a personal diary

What is the idea of ​​keeping a personal diary? This is the theme to which this creation will be devoted.

There are many ideas for doing such things, but most often girls start diaries with the following goals:

1. Capturing important moments in life.
2. Write down the goals you want to achieve in the future.
3. Description of wishes.
4. Recording impressions from watching theatrical scenes or movies.
5. Capturing only joyful moments.
6. Description of a love story.
7. Write down your favorite recipes.
8. Describing emotions from travel.
9. Writing inspirational quotes.

Important! More often, people create personal notebooks for the purpose of taking notes of their feelings, which they do not show to other people.

After all, on the pages you can be weak and vulnerable, but in reality not everyone can allow themselves to do this.

Making a personal diary

As statistics show, girls are more likely to trust paper experiences than boys. Therefore, in this article we will consider ideas for designing a personal diary for the fair sex.

First page. On the main page, display:

• Desires.
• Aspirations.
• Character description.
• Goals.
• Portrait.
• temper.

Describe yourself, honestly tell your diary what you want from life and write it on the main page so you never forget about it.

First page layout:

• If the secret wish pad is for a girl, then draw with your own hands pictures in the form of cupids, hearts, butterflies or your favorite prints.

  You can cut printouts from magazines or print out pre-selected and liked drawings on the printer.

  The design depends on the character and temperament of the girl. If it is calm, then design the book in soft pastel colors.

  If a girl has an explosive character, then it does not hurt to add burgundy, red, gray or purple to the color scheme.

• The book for girls is designed in a more gentle, calm and slightly childish style. It is recommended to draw sketches of your favorite cartoon characters or characters from a fairy tale or book.

  A personal diary for a little girl should be full of beautiful and bright drawings.

Cover. To make the diary cool, unique and beautiful, you need to make a cover for it.

Ideas for creating a cover:

• Crochet a book cover with thread.
• Wrap the notebook in thick colored paper.
• Sew a fabric cover. This is the most practical option, because it can always be removed and washed if necessary.

Design of other pages. The answer to what to write in a notebook cannot be answered unambiguously.

But what can be drawn depends on the subject and idea of ​​​​the conceived paper creation:

• Edition to record love experiences. Fill the pages with heart designs, love arrows, and wedding rings.
• A book designed to record joyful events and travels should be designed brightly and naturally. Draw the sun, sea, shells, mountains, smiles of people, funny faces, various thematic drawings.

Ideas for designing other pages:

1. Page with a secret inside. Cut out a small piece of paper and glue it to the pages with just one edge, imitating a door. In a secret place, write a secret or wish.
2. The book is an organizer. Cut out the side of the pages in the notebook by date so that it resembles a notebook with an alphabet. So you can always find an event by the desired date.

You can fill the diary with such design techniques as:

1. Scrapbooking. This is a technology for decorating with craft paper, twine, lace, satin ribbons, etc.
2. Application - a cut out element glued to paper with glue.
3. Dudling is a detailed painting on the cells of an abstraction page.
4. Photo collage. The book will preserve written memories of youth and photographs, where the owner of this diary looks at ease, young and happy.
5. Quilling - decorating with thin paper strips.
6. Gluing rhinestones, stickers.

Erofeevskaya Natalya

Whether to keep your personal diary (in youth slang “ld”) is truly a personal matter for everyone, but teenage girls, girls and women for the most part prefer to open the cherished silent sheet of paper, rather than close friends. At the same time, creative and romantically inclined people do not have questions about how to keep a diary: they write what they want, draw according to their mood, write in and paste quotes, clippings from fashion magazines, pie recipes and other interesting things.

But if your own vision of your own diary is not enough, and you don’t even know where to start, this article is for you: ideas, recommendations, highlights, creative solutions will push you to individual style and creation. So, how to create, beautifully design a flyleaf and pages, and what can be written in a personal diary?

How to start keeping a personal diary?

With desire. If a girl or girl has a desire to keep her own diary just because all the girls in the class or university group have it, then this will immediately become a failed idea: the process of communicating with a paper friend will end exactly on the second page, when the passion for fashion has suddenly flared up subside. In the world of modern technologies, gadgets and social networks, the question will not be superfluous - why do you need, what does a personal diary look like and what should be in it: if the answers to these seemingly simple questions are not found, the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe diary should be postponed for a while.

When deciding to keep a personal diary, think about the purpose - what will it become for you and what is its meaning?

The most obvious purpose of introducing a diary into personal life is communication: a thin or thick notebook or notebook will become the most understanding and trusting interlocutor that is lacking in social and public life. Another group of the female population will define journaling as an opportunity to capture the emotions of visiting interesting places, memories of significant events and impressions of meeting interesting people. And still others will keep a diary for introspection of their own actions, revision of the actions performed, reassessment of themselves and their mistakes, and reflection on successes. Everyone has their own goal- it is important to realize it, and then the personal diary will become a true masterpiece, and not a routine writing.

What will become a diary?

We will not consider in detail the version of the electronic diary: such are also a statement of one's own thoughts and a description of events, but not intended for internal use and for worldwide public readings. But just like with all modern gadgets, a significant mass of readers prefer books in the classic version than in audio or electronic, the same is the case with personal diaries.

The diary is a mirror of the human soul

Starting an electronic personal diary of a teenager on a computer or on a website can put some interesting or, conversely, a dramatic event, a meeting with old friends or a trip. Electronic diary on a personal computer has its advantages (a strong password, beautiful graphics for design, the ability to make an unlimited number of copies), but a special atmosphere, romance to the process of communicating with oneself and something nostalgic vintage give diaries exactly in paper execution, but here's what they should be, what kind of notebook for diary entries about life to start? And this is also a personal matter for everyone:

one will be comfortable writing on separate sheets of paper, which are always at hand, combining them as you write into a ring binder or organizers of paper materials of other options;
others will find comfortable ordinary school notebooks for 18 sheets or notepads, which can be put in a handbag - they do not take up much space and weigh almost nothing;
still others will approach the matter monumentally, starting thick barn book or diary under voluminous texts: descendants will undoubtedly appreciate the painstaking great-grandmother's work, which tells about the super-duper Seventh iPhone and the release of the next episode of Star Wars.

Keeping, writing and pictures for a personal diary - the style, design, size of inscriptions and drawings also play a role. When deciding what a personal diary will look like, one should not be guided solely by an attractive external cover: first of all, its owner should think about the comfort of entering your entries into it. And what is needed for the design of the first page of ld - this will already be decided in the process of working with it.

How long does it take to keep a diary?

How to start keeping and equipping a beautiful personal diary - the rules, as such, do not exist. As well as some official or generally accepted timing for filling it out. If you do not turn a pleasant activity into a daily many hours of recording each step, then It doesn't take much time to keep a diary.. You should not treat the diary as work: entries in it can be made hastily or in detail, but in any case, if there is desire and inspiration.

It is not by chance that the diary can be used as a planner of future affairs: it will show how much time is wasted with the hostess. Nothing to write about the last day, a couple of days, a week? - it makes sense to think: maybe time is just wasted? Such information will give impetus to a general mobilization and decisive action within the limits of one person.

Each girl or woman determines the mode of working with her diary that suits her: daily, weekly or situational

“When I want, then I write”- the correct answer to the question of how often to write in the diary. Obyazalovka will destroy a trusting relationship with such a friend, and talking about each line will not give either positive emotions or a pleasant result.

Another point that diary owners don't think about: re-read notes from time to time and desirable and necessary- this will refresh the memory of events and allow you to track how your thinking and assessment of situations and people's actions are changing. Over time, not only we ourselves change, but also our perception of the same dynamic, not worth a second of the world around us: such an analysis is useful and determines the degree of maturation of the individual.

How to keep a personal diary

Correct in this case - a synonym for "as convenient." You need to relax, stay alone with yourself, your thoughts, a pen or pencil (according to preferences) and a diary. You can not comb your hair and not, you are now nature itself. Those who have problems with the Russian language should not think about the rules of spelling and punctuation - write freely, even with errors.

For each entry, set the day, month, year - everything is forgotten over time, but the chronology will return to the exact event moment

Caution does not hurt when expressing: on the one hand, why then is a diary needed if you don’t pour out everything painful on its pages ?; on the other hand, one should not exclude the possibility of reading it by another person. And in most cases, it will be the bomb. Atomic.

How to sign and properly format a personal diary: tips and ideas

For adults, busy and working people, maybe the design of the diary is not so important - most likely, they would stop at an expensive diary with a dense stylish cover and elegant pages. But how to start and fill in the pages inside the LD of desires for a girl or teenager? For sure young ladies want something enchanting, sparkling and joyful- styles, ideas and photos of filling out a personal diary or diary can be viewed on Internet blogs, the Pinterest social network of pictures and similar resources. Or just come up with something of your own.

In general diary design depends on:

own desires and ideological vision of a new "friend";
creative skills (calligraphic handwriting, ability to draw);
available free time, which, without prejudice to study, work or family, can be spent on making entries.

Thematic pages and stories- a super idea, everything will be used here: from scrapbooking to stickers and Chinese calligraphy. For a trip to the sea, the page can be painted with soft blue watercolors, pearl beads and decorative colored sand can be added, the “forest page” can be perfumed with woody scented toilet water and decorated with pine or spruce needles - room for imagination.

Many already at the beginning of the journey think how to make the last page creative diary: perhaps someone will look at the idea of ​​​​a stylized door to the future, their own poem, or just a beautifully executed inscription “To be continued ...”

There are no special rules in the design either - it is only important that the owner liked the diary. For young girls who have free time, magazine clippings and scrapbooking elements, appliqué materials, a set of colored gel pens and felt-tip pens, highlighters, glue sticks, self-adhesive rhinestones, decorative ribbons and paper, etc. will come in handy. Cute cats, cute bears, flower butterflies and angels are recognized as favorite girly pictures.

How to make it interesting and what to write about in a personal diary for a girl, girl or woman

describe emotions and attitudes- it is not the bare and boring facts that are important, the feelings caused by the situation are important;
you can throw out the accumulated verbally or graphically- as you like;
memorable exhibitions, visits to cinemas and theatrical performances, interesting trips, romantic dates will be reminded tickets and booklets, letters and notes of a loved one- if you want to store them at the end of the diary on the cover, it is recommended to glue the envelope and fold them there or paste them directly on the current page;
write down and draw gift ideas for family and friends;
do sketches of favorite models in boutique windows with the expectation to sew in the near future the same, but with mother-of-pearl buttons;
to increase self-esteem, it is recommended to paste in a diary own good photos, celebrate achievements and do not be shy to praise yourself for success;
rich in dreams, people are advised to write them down until they are forgotten, - dreams open the veil of the inner consciousness and experiences of a person;
women's diaries become a treasure trove quotes, aphorisms and funny anecdotes: the hostess of the diary, who does not rely on her own maiden memory, periodically reads them useful and brings pleasure;
useful phrases in English;
spending money, planning spending on purchases;
admired for their simplicity or sophistication cooking recipes;
words of favorite songs, poems, poems.

If you wish and know foreign languages, you can keep a diary in one of them: agree, personal diary in English is not only intellectual and stylish, but also a great practice for expressing your own thoughts and expanding your vocabulary.

The diary of married ladies most often represents an ascetic version: short, to the point entries without additional embellishments

Thick cardboard cover will make the diary safer, and the creativity of the owner of the diary will highlight an ordinary notebook or notebook from a bunch of similar ones, creating a small personal mood corner. With the help of master classes of the online community of needlewomen and available materials, it is easy to create own textile cover with elegant lace trim and sewing and / or rhinestones and buttons (felt ones look original and cozy, but are not so practical to use - they get dirty and worn out). Covers are easy to change depending on the mood or season.

To maintain complete secrecy, you can buy notebook or notepad with lock or find a secluded place in the room for a handwritten treasure away from prying eyes and prying hands. How much does your own diary cost? It is truly priceless, but not at all because of the beautiful expensive cover - the time and heart invested in its pages will eventually make this small notebook or book a family heirloom that future generations will treasure with tenderness.

Conclusion

And why is all this necessary? This question returns to the first point of the article - the goal. The goal of keeping a diary will become the motivation for filling it out: feelings and thoughts, perception of people and events, analysis of one's own strengths and weaknesses, fears, achievements and actions.

A personal diary is a letter to yourself in the future and news for yourself from the past.

The diary will become not only a way of self-expression: scattered and fussy people, he will help streamline both thoughts and actions, teach planning, consistency and structuring the presentation of his judgments. Recording is required by some for the development of detailed memory and a safety net against senile sclerosis.

A personal diary is not just a biography and a psychotherapeutic attempt to understand oneself, find harmony and: in some cases it is necessary for a detailed assessment of one's life. Keeping a diary involves a person trying to become better, wiser and make fewer mistakes in the future.

February 2, 2014

If a person feels the need to understand himself, he sits down to write a personal diary. But not everything always works out right away, and some are faced with the fact that they don’t know where to start at all and how it’s done. That's what we'll talk about.

Personal diary: why?

Many people, however, more often these are pretty young girls, at a certain period of their lives begin to keep personal diaries.

What does it have to do with:

1. First, with the need to deal with yourself, put all the feelings and emotions on the shelves. This is characteristic of people who are prone to introspection, creative and very sensitive.
2. Keeping diaries begins because of the need to speak out. Not always and not everything can be said even to a mother, but paper, as they say, will endure everything and will not turn red. At the age of 14 and up to infinity (approximately then the vast majority turn to the epistolary genre, and many continue to write until the end of their lives), new and incomprehensible things begin to happen to a person. They are associated with growing up, with the first feelings, with puberty. It is deeply intimate, which is why so many people turn to the diary.
3. Some people just like to write. They are interested in it, they leave evidence of their history, and then re-read it with pleasure and recall half-forgotten details. And if you feel that it's time to sit down for a diary - take it and start.

How to start

A personal diary is similar to a school diary only in that it must also contain dates. A person writes his story, shares his experiences with himself, talks about recent events.

All this must be dated and beautifully designed. How - more on that later. For now, let's talk about how it's done in general.

Target

And sometimes a person sits down for a personal diary simply because he wants to. Without any specific purpose. And this is also quite normal, because in general we are now talking about deeply personal activities.

Tool selection

The next step is the choice of tools. Now in stores there is simply a limitless selection of different notebooks, notepads and other stationery.

You can even opt for printed diaries that are beautifully lined and have pretty clasps. The key will be only yours, so no one will peep any secrets.

What exactly to choose is a matter of taste for each person. It is more convenient for someone to take a large A4 notebook, while someone prefers to hide their secrets in a miniature notebook that easily fits in the palm of your hand. In any case, you are free to arrange your personal diary according to your own preferences.

You can write in it with multi-colored pens, emphasize the main thoughts and highlight important events, you can even depict all sorts of pictures and stick funny stickers there. Basically, do whatever you want!

And, finally, modern high technologies offer another option for keeping a diary - electronic. Many of us have already forgotten how to write on paper, but they are fluent in the keyboard.

You can also write the story of your own life on a computer, both personally only for yourself, saving it in password-protected folders, and posting it on the World Wide Web. But these will be blogs. And now it's not about them.

When to Write

And the third question is when to start writing? In principle, again, there is no concrete answer, and it cannot be. Write when your heart desires.

Many people prefer to give themselves up to inner experiences before going to bed, when no one is disturbing anymore and you can calmly think about the events and listen to yourself. This is probably the best time. But again, not for everyone.

A diary is a state of mind, transferred to paper (or to a computer hard drive), and it will only be alive and real when it is written at the request of the soul.

Not under pressure, not because “I started to lead, and now I have to do it every day,” but simply when I want to. In times like these, everything will work itself out.

How to lead

Again, whatever your heart desires. But still, there are some generally accepted rules for maintaining and designing a personal diary. Still, this is one of the varieties of the epistolary genre and the diary must obey some requirements. Even if it's personal.

First of all, you can not abandon the diary for a long time. Ideally, it should be written every day, with the mandatory designation of the date.

Sometimes, if a person makes several entries in one day, he makes notes “a little later”, “later in the evening”, “after a while”. This creates a sense of the fluidity of time, gives a certain effect of presence.

In general, a personal diary is a deep spiritual work. Therefore, there can be no strict framework here. The main thing is not to leave without attention for a long time.

Where to hide

Since this is the main repository of personal secrets, making a diary is not all. It is important to hide it well. And here - boundless scope for imagination.

Put it in your personal belongings, many people hide it in the same place where the laundry is put away. It is unlikely that anyone will rummage in such a place, except for you. You can shove deeper into the closet, you can put it under the pillow, and make the bed carefully. Someone goes even further and hides deep under the mattress.

Others prefer to always carry their diary with them. And this is understandable for two reasons: firstly, if he is with you all the time, no one will find him. And secondly, if suddenly inspiration comes outside the home, you can sit down and write. And then hide the precious notebook (or notebook) again inside your spacious bag.

For greater secrecy, you can purchase diaries with a lock, no one will look into them for sure, even if they accidentally discover them.

Ideas for decoration

Since we are talking about a deeply personal thing, then how to arrange it is a matter of preferences of the owner himself. You can somehow decorate with your own hands in an original way by sticking interesting stickers or painting the fields with different ornaments.

You can also put cool pictures or images in the diary that correspond to the state of mind. In an electronic diary it is even easier - you can download and insert the desired picture.

What to write

What could you tell yourself? Yes, almost anything you want! Different secrets, experiences, stories can easily become the content of a personal diary.

You can write down some facts, even the prices for new clothes - then it will be interesting to read about it. The more details, seemingly insignificant and empty, the more saturated and alive the recordings will become.

Everything that may seem stupid at the moment will later become a priceless memory. And the more such trifles and nonsense will be in your diary, the more expensive it will be for you.

In a nutshell, this is all you need for a classic personal diary:

1. A great desire to keep records of oneself. Sit down to write only when you really want to.
2. Accessories that match the mood. Get your own system of stickers and notes; so it will be even more interesting.
3. Appropriate layout. Draw in your diary, draw diagrams, try to organize the information as much as possible.
4. Accents on the little things. Record as many details and trifles as possible, then the diary will become more lively and interesting.
5. Frankness with oneself. Write about the secret, say everything. This is your personal diary, and there should be no secrets from yourself.

Keep diaries, get to know your own soul through them - and something beautiful and infinitely deep will be revealed to you. Or rather, you yourself.

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