More Important Tips for your Journal

Golly look at me with all of these posts today and I've not put a thing in about myself lol .. .. maybe later .. ..

• DO NOT treat your journal as some kind of holy thing that you only put your deep thoughts in. This is about REAL life. Let is show who you really are.
• Copy your patriarchal blessing on the first page of your journal and watch it be fulfilled. Pray about your journal writing.
• If you acknowledge your Heavenly Father's hand in your life, HE will help you fill the pages.
• Remember that you are writing a journal for several reasons: for your posterity, for a record of your life, as a marker for growth and progress in your life, as a source of inspiration for yourself and others.
• Always date each entry with Day of the week, Month, Date and Year & maybe even sometimes the time of the day.
• Give the full names of the person (not something to do online of course) when mentioning him or her for the first time. People who think they will always be our close friends may move away, and we may lose contact and forget names and situations.
• Write about deaths, births, marriages, baptisms and endowments: personal triumphs, failures and struggles and how they were met, personal feelings, important events, blessings received, current events.
• Don't ever think, "I'll never forget this day, this person, etc". 40 years is a long time and you might not remember your phone number let alone the special person you liked in the third grade.
• Tell the who, what where, when and why of things you do. Relate the decision you made and how you reached those decisions.
• It is all right to mention problems, doubts and dislikes but emphasise normal days and happy times.
• Write about good and bad days. It can be a source of inspiration and comfort for your descendants to see that 'Grandma" was human too,
• Tell about the funny or embarrassing things that happen in your life.
• Note family events, vacations, weddings, deaths and special activities.
• Note medical history, both personal and family. When did you have your tonsils removed? When did you sister have her baby?
• Make a record of music you listen to, movies you watch, books you read and what you think of them.
• Write thoughts, quotes, sayings, proverbs, poems etc that you find thoughtful and inspirational.
• DO NOT write gossip or trash about others.
• DO NOT LIE. be honest about yourself.

This has given me stacks of ideas for future posts. It's a matter of where do I start??