Wow! This exercise really opened my eyes about authenticity and my fear of what someone my think reading my journals if I were to die suddenly. I asked my sister once if I were to die, if she would come and destroy them, now I’m not so sure I would want that. There are so many thoughts, hopes and dreams in these pages that I have only shared with a few close to me, but I think maybe my children or their children might want to know more about me when I’m gone and this might rob them of the opportunity. I have found from doing genealogy, that several of my ancestors were avid journal keepers, no one knows what happened to these journals and I feel robbed of the opportunity to know them.
To my way of thinking, the only real fail is stopping & never starting up again. I don't consider it a big deal not to write in my journal for awhile. I've gone weeks w/out writing a word. But ! I always start up again. If I haven't written for weeks, it isn't because I don't want to write, am tired of keeping a journal or anything like that. It's been at times when there just weren't enough hours in the day. Often, I don't write for a day or a few days. That's OK. I'll catch up as best I can. I have kept a journal since Nov. 1976. I don't give a thought to how neatly I write . There are no journal police. There are no rules or regulations. Do it your way whatever way that is....& that is just fine!
Thank You!! This was very helpful. I just started a new journal because I wasn't using my old one anymore, and it was very helpful to journal about the way I journal for a moment at the beginning of this notebook. The fail I thought about was "writing about superficial things when there are deeper things going on" and I finished with a statement about giving myself time and space and not judging the expression I find for whatever turmoil is going on in my life. (For example just writing down what I had for breakfast and what my plan for the day is on a eventfull day and then circling back after a few weeks when I have time to write about what is going on in my life on a bigger scale, allowing a bigger variance in my journal entries.) The video format was great 🥰
i filled up 7 pages!! im amazed because ive been in a "journaling slump" this whole year and i think its because i forced myself to be creative. my journal had to be pretty and decorated, otherwise it didnt make sense for me to keep journaling. but i learned during this video, that i can just be myself, just write without decorating the pages, to draw in my journal, whenever i feel like it and to not be so such a perfectionist. thank you for this video!
I loved journaling with you. It felt so easy to write and not like something I had to do. This was NOT A FAIL! Thank you for making this video Tina! ❤️✨
Woooooow how peaceful was that! ♥️ The music and your calm voice were like a spa but with journaling instead of massage. I loved this! Thank you! Hugs from Napa 🌸🤗
I loved this video! Lately I've been struggling with not knowing what to write about and this video really helped! I forgot how fun it is to approach a page without any expectation or a goal in mind, and just see where writing takes me.
I do journal everyday. Sometimes it’s just rambling. Just to write. I want to adjust it to a more of a reflection. Not only about my day , but also my feelings & dreams. Thank you for sharing this.
I think it is interesting how we precive failure in Journaling. because I find that it can be helpful to set an intention for my Journaling. By saying to myself "this Journaling session I would like to exspress my feelings about xyz" or to look at my journal and say "this is specifically about my mental health." Gives me a lot more freedom and grounds me in what is happening in the moment.
@@OverallAdventures it’s been two months and I think it would be great to get an update video about this, how things maybe changed over time and anything you learned from the comments. I specifically learned from this video and the comments how to journal in a way that is less intentional and more letting my thoughts go out onto the page. weather that be into a short story or a poem or a story idea, sometimes it’s really dark self reflection. sometimes it’s really emotive poetry about what I am going though but by journaling in this specific free flow way I am actually being more creative with the ways I talk about how I feel in my body and about my state of mind and it’s seamed to help my mood a lot.
So good! I had a break through: the "fail" I wrote about is that I felt like whenever I write about something new I'm learning, or write some research notes about something, I always felt like I was "wasting pages". I realised that came from my perfectionism in my real life when it comes to researching for my master's dissertation. I always feel like I have to research more, that I have to write it "in a more clever way", that I have to be "more scientific"... And I was carrying the same weight in my notebook. I realised that my journal is a safe place, no jury is going to critisize it or reject my journal because it's "not good enough" or because I jotted down some messy notes about something im learning instead of systematizing everything. In my journal I can be messy, non-scientific, all-over-the-place, and I don't have to prove with citing others everything I say, I can just say it because I feel it, I think it or because it's my personal experience. It's been very freeing, I think now I realise this I can use my journal to practice imperfectionism, so that I don't feel so much pressure when I write, even if it's an academic paper. I should have more fun with them and let my creativity show a bit more. It's supposed to be something I enjoy, not something that stresses me out 💖🙏🏻
Truly a first as I haven't prompt journaled since the earlier journals of mine. Excellent video! hehe... my "fails" all had to do with simply NOT writing... CRAZYY haha :)
Thank you so, so much! I really needed this ❤️ I'd love to see more 'journal with me' style videos; the music and your voice are just so relaxing, and your prompts are so therapeutic ❤️ thank you 😊 ❤️
I journal for specific reasons, and so there is no failure for me. No mistakes. I just express myself as who I am, therefore... I have no list of fails.
My finals get over on the 6th. Just after giving the exam, I'm going to do this in the library. Will help me rejuvenate in a great way. Can't wait!!! 🏃♀️✨
Anyone else struggle with journaling in front of others, family, spouse etc. I have no problem journaling in front of strangers, ie coffee shop etc. I’d love to get over this….keeps me from journaling. I think the main reason is I don’t want anyone looking over my shoulder. Being retired, hubby is always around. Any suggestions?
Maybe start small, so if you’re journaling in front of family, make sure you’re sitting in a place where your back is to the wall, that way you have reassurance no one is looking over your shoulder. And work your way up to being able to journal anywhere 💚
Me! This! Even though I make videos and share with all of you all the time, journaling on camera is SO uncomfortable for me. I feel even more vulnerable for some reason. In terms of hubby, I’ve felt this way with Luke before too. I used to escape to other rooms early days in our relationship and eventually just had a super candid chat about it and asked for space while I journal. It was a game changer - now he gives me lots of space (and silence) when I’m writing but it wasn’t always the case!
I love this journal with me format! And these questions really helpful. I wanted to ask about your fountain pens (I also own a Lamy and also got myself a Kaweco as a early bday gift), I was curious as to how often you find yourself having to refill the pens. I’m stepping into the world of converters and wanted to ask since I know you write at a pretty frequent pace.
Ooh good question! I do have a converter for this Lamy and I’m not going to lie - I have to fill it up often! Definitely once a week. The kaweko converter is even tinier - but I haven’t used that one before! There’s a way to rig kawekos to fill the whole barrel with ink, but I’m not quite sure how to do that. There are definitely UA-cam videos that could help though!
I have a Kaweco Sport and I refill the cartridge over and over with a syringe. I have the extra fine nib and can write about 35 pages in an A5 Moleskine with my small handwriting. Hope that helps anyone.
@@biancabu777 thank you for the frame of reference! My handwriting is somewhere in the middle so it should be good. I also want to try the syringe method once the cartridge runs out. But thank you for your input 💜
Sorry if I’m late, but Tina could you please do another video where you go through all of your journals and just tell us how long it took you to fill up each journal from start-finished? Other than that keep up the good work. Love from Sweden 🇸🇪.
Here are my personal fails: - writing so illegible, that reading it later is an exhausting thing - my journals being boring, since in my current journal i just write - filling too much journals, i will never read again (I filled 18 journals in two years since I´ve started, I´m just wondering how it´s gonna look when I´m 50+), like what am I supposed to do with all of them - I write less about what happened that day, I write more on what bothers me, what I´m looking forward to & so on but I feel like it makes it less relevant to my future self
@Tree Hugging Nature Woman Oh, I have the exact same problem with sketchbooks - How I´ll try to solve it is having one sketchbook where I really try to make every page pretty and having another one where I just sketch however I want to. I don´t like that one then though since it contains many ugly pages aaah Why do we make it so difficult for us haha However, good luck with your planner, I hope it works out for you :)
I actually get the whole finishing too many journals. For me it takes me 2weeks to a month to finish an A4. I often find myself journaling about the most simple things in such detail that I end up even forgetting about the original topic. I can write pages and pages off stuff like this. It’s often memory keeping that traps me. I can’t decide what’s worthy of being written. Me having a coffee on a Thursday afternoon on a random Tuesday or how I’ve just seen Beyoncé. It may sound good obvious ,but I feel it’s equally important to have both. When I’m reading my journals back in 40 years time and I only see the exciting things I did in my younger years when in reality there were quite a few down moments in between every exciting moment. At the same time me filling up a good couple of journals every year because I’m journaling about the simple things in life and feel like if I don’t the memory of the day will forever be lost to time. I’ve also had this feeling for a long time where the more journals I accumulate the more they lose their significance to me. The less of something you have the more significance it holds, but the older I’ve gotten the more I’ve journaled meaning I’m in and out of journals quicker than before. I don’t really get to know the journal before it’s over and I have to start the process of starting a new journal. Sorry if that came across as ranty. I just felt a bit of relation to your comment
@Tree Hugging Nature Woman I wish I could still fit all my thoughts into a sigular page, but I’m glad it works for you. Do you not find it restrictive doing that like what if one day you don’ journal as much on a page would you finish off the page with a new entry the following day or just let it be and continue on to the next
@@quackwackers3621 Maybe it would help if you´d get massive A4-Journals. For such I needed three to four months and it was a lot of space. About the amount of journals - I have thought about dropping journals I don´t wanna reread really at public bookshelfs. Someone would be amazed. I´d just imagine me finding another persons journal. And If I overpaint all of the names and personal data it wouldn´t be so scary anymore. Maybe that´s something for you too! But for now I keep my journals.
Wow! This exercise really opened my eyes about authenticity and my fear of what someone my think reading my journals if I were to die suddenly. I asked my sister once if I were to die, if she would come and destroy them, now I’m not so sure I would want that. There are so many thoughts, hopes and dreams in these pages that I have only shared with a few close to me, but I think maybe my children or their children might want to know more about me when I’m gone and this might rob them of the opportunity. I have found from doing genealogy, that several of my ancestors were avid journal keepers, no one knows what happened to these journals and I feel robbed of the opportunity to know them.
This felt like a journal meditation. Very peaceful and soothing. I love it! 💚
To my way of thinking, the only real fail is stopping & never starting up again. I don't consider it a big deal not to write in my journal for awhile. I've gone weeks w/out writing a word. But ! I always start up again. If I haven't written for weeks, it isn't because I don't want to write, am tired of keeping a journal or anything like that. It's been at times when there just weren't enough hours in the day.
Often, I don't write for a day or a few days. That's OK. I'll catch up as best I can. I have kept a journal since Nov. 1976. I don't give a thought to how neatly I write . There are no journal police. There are no rules or regulations. Do it your way whatever way that is....& that is just fine!
Exactly!! Thank you for this, Pat
@@OverallAdventures 🙋♀️😊
Thank You!! This was very helpful. I just started a new journal because I wasn't using my old one anymore, and it was very helpful to journal about the way I journal for a moment at the beginning of this notebook. The fail I thought about was "writing about superficial things when there are deeper things going on" and I finished with a statement about giving myself time and space and not judging the expression I find for whatever turmoil is going on in my life. (For example just writing down what I had for breakfast and what my plan for the day is on a eventfull day and then circling back after a few weeks when I have time to write about what is going on in my life on a bigger scale, allowing a bigger variance in my journal entries.) The video format was great 🥰
i filled up 7 pages!! im amazed because ive been in a "journaling slump" this whole year and i think its because i forced myself to be creative. my journal had to be pretty and decorated, otherwise it didnt make sense for me to keep journaling. but i learned during this video, that i can just be myself, just write without decorating the pages, to draw in my journal, whenever i feel like it and to not be so such a perfectionist. thank you for this video!
Thank you SOO much for this comment
I loved journaling with you. It felt so easy to write and not like something I had to do. This was NOT A FAIL! Thank you for making this video Tina! ❤️✨
I'm SO glad to hear this! Thank you, Krithi
Woooooow how peaceful was that! ♥️ The music and your calm voice were like a spa but with journaling instead of massage. I loved this! Thank you! Hugs from Napa 🌸🤗
Thank you SO much lovely
I loved this video! Lately I've been struggling with not knowing what to write about and this video really helped! I forgot how fun it is to approach a page without any expectation or a goal in mind, and just see where writing takes me.
I'm SO glad to hear this, Hannah! This was my goal with this video
I do journal everyday. Sometimes it’s just rambling. Just to write. I want to adjust it to a more of a reflection. Not only about my day , but also my feelings & dreams.
Thank you for sharing this.
I think it is interesting how we precive failure in Journaling. because I find that it can be helpful to set an intention for my Journaling. By saying to myself "this Journaling session I would like to exspress my feelings about xyz" or to look at my journal and say "this is specifically about my mental health." Gives me a lot more freedom and grounds me in what is happening in the moment.
LOVE this perspective & idea of incorporation intention into a journaling session - I'd like to try this in my own practice. Thank you!
@@OverallAdventures it’s been two months and I think it would be great to get an update video about this, how things maybe changed over time and anything you learned from the comments. I specifically learned from this video and the comments how to journal in a way that is less intentional and more letting my thoughts go out onto the page. weather that be into a short story or a poem or a story idea, sometimes it’s really dark self reflection. sometimes it’s really emotive poetry about what I am going though but by journaling in this specific free flow way I am actually being more creative with the ways I talk about how I feel in my body and about my state of mind and it’s seamed to help my mood a lot.
Thank you for sharing so much! It’s amazing how after many years I still feel inspired to write whenever I watch one of your videos :)
Aww I'm so glad to hear it!
Would you please make another " journal with me" video ? Can't get over this just yet!
So good! I had a break through: the "fail" I wrote about is that I felt like whenever I write about something new I'm learning, or write some research notes about something, I always felt like I was "wasting pages". I realised that came from my perfectionism in my real life when it comes to researching for my master's dissertation. I always feel like I have to research more, that I have to write it "in a more clever way", that I have to be "more scientific"... And I was carrying the same weight in my notebook. I realised that my journal is a safe place, no jury is going to critisize it or reject my journal because it's "not good enough" or because I jotted down some messy notes about something im learning instead of systematizing everything. In my journal I can be messy, non-scientific, all-over-the-place, and I don't have to prove with citing others everything I say, I can just say it because I feel it, I think it or because it's my personal experience. It's been very freeing, I think now I realise this I can use my journal to practice imperfectionism, so that I don't feel so much pressure when I write, even if it's an academic paper. I should have more fun with them and let my creativity show a bit more. It's supposed to be something I enjoy, not something that stresses me out 💖🙏🏻
This is SO fascinating!! I am so grateful for your perspective and openness with us
I love this! I really enjoy this mindful journal with me experience.
Truly a first as I haven't prompt journaled since the earlier journals of mine. Excellent video! hehe... my "fails" all had to do with simply NOT writing... CRAZYY haha :)
I totally feel you hahaha!!!
Thank you so, so much! I really needed this ❤️ I'd love to see more 'journal with me' style videos; the music and your voice are just so relaxing, and your prompts are so therapeutic ❤️ thank you 😊 ❤️
Thank you for the feedback!! It's really nice to know that you all enjoy these types of videos
I journal for specific reasons, and so there is no failure for me. No mistakes. I just express myself as who I am, therefore... I have no list of fails.
Glad to hear it!! There is lovely freedom in letting go of rules & expectations in our notebooks
Wow so peaceful I love the music so calming to journal to xxx
Thank you so much!
Your videos are my favorite on youtube❤️so glad you’ve been posting again!
Aww thank you Laurein!!!
This inspired such a good journaling session for me, I loved it. Thank you!!
My finals get over on the 6th. Just after giving the exam, I'm going to do this in the library. Will help me rejuvenate in a great way. Can't wait!!! 🏃♀️✨
Good luck with your finals! Hopefully this will help you refresh & reset at the end of your semester
Anyone else struggle with journaling in front of others, family, spouse etc. I have no problem journaling in front of strangers, ie coffee shop etc. I’d love to get over this….keeps me from journaling. I think the main reason is I don’t want anyone looking over my shoulder. Being retired, hubby is always around. Any suggestions?
Maybe start small, so if you’re journaling in front of family, make sure you’re sitting in a place where your back is to the wall, that way you have reassurance no one is looking over your shoulder. And work your way up to being able to journal anywhere 💚
Me! This! Even though I make videos and share with all of you all the time, journaling on camera is SO uncomfortable for me. I feel even more vulnerable for some reason. In terms of hubby, I’ve felt this way with Luke before too. I used to escape to other rooms early days in our relationship and eventually just had a super candid chat about it and asked for space while I journal. It was a game changer - now he gives me lots of space (and silence) when I’m writing but it wasn’t always the case!
Maybe I should make a video on this topic! It’s super relatable 💜
@@OverallAdventures you definitely should! Because who knows how many others struggle with this and could benefit from a video about it! 💚
Incredible time
Very interesting prompts !
I love this journal with me format! And these questions really helpful.
I wanted to ask about your fountain pens (I also own a Lamy and also got myself a Kaweco as a early bday gift), I was curious as to how often you find yourself having to refill the pens. I’m stepping into the world of converters and wanted to ask since I know you write at a pretty frequent pace.
Ooh good question! I do have a converter for this Lamy and I’m not going to lie - I have to fill it up often! Definitely once a week. The kaweko converter is even tinier - but I haven’t used that one before! There’s a way to rig kawekos to fill the whole barrel with ink, but I’m not quite sure how to do that. There are definitely UA-cam videos that could help though!
I have a Kaweco Sport and I refill the cartridge over and over with a syringe. I have the extra fine nib and can write about 35 pages in an A5 Moleskine with my small handwriting. Hope that helps anyone.
@@biancabu777 thank you for the frame of reference! My handwriting is somewhere in the middle so it should be good. I also want to try the syringe method once the cartridge runs out. But thank you for your input 💜
Sorry if I’m late, but Tina could you please do another video where you go through all of your journals and just tell us how long it took you to fill up each journal from start-finished? Other than that keep up the good work. Love from Sweden 🇸🇪.
Thank you, Li! I have a video on my entire journal collection where I go through most of my notebooks
I saved this video to do later.
Here are my personal fails:
- writing so illegible, that reading it later is an exhausting thing
- my journals being boring, since in my current journal i just write
- filling too much journals, i will never read again (I filled 18 journals in two years since I´ve started, I´m just wondering how it´s gonna look when I´m 50+), like what am I supposed to do with all of them
- I write less about what happened that day, I write more on what bothers me, what I´m looking forward to & so on but I feel like it makes it less relevant to my future self
@Tree Hugging Nature Woman Oh, I have the exact same problem with sketchbooks - How I´ll try to solve it is having one sketchbook where I really try to make every page pretty and having another one where I just sketch however I want to. I don´t like that one then though since it contains many ugly pages aaah
Why do we make it so difficult for us haha
However, good luck with your planner, I hope it works out for you :)
I actually get the whole finishing too many journals. For me it takes me 2weeks to a month to finish an A4. I often find myself journaling about the most simple things in such detail that I end up even forgetting about the original topic. I can write pages and pages off stuff like this. It’s often memory keeping that traps me. I can’t decide what’s worthy of being written. Me having a coffee on a Thursday afternoon on a random Tuesday or how I’ve just seen Beyoncé. It may sound good obvious ,but I feel it’s equally important to have both. When I’m reading my journals back in 40 years time and I only see the exciting things I did in my younger years when in reality there were quite a few down moments in between every exciting moment. At the same time me filling up a good couple of journals every year because I’m journaling about the simple things in life and feel like if I don’t the memory of the day will forever be lost to time. I’ve also had this feeling for a long time where the more journals I accumulate the more they lose their significance to me. The less of something you have the more significance it holds, but the older I’ve gotten the more I’ve journaled meaning I’m in and out of journals quicker than before. I don’t really get to know the journal before it’s over and I have to start the process of starting a new journal. Sorry if that came across as ranty. I just felt a bit of relation to your comment
@Tree Hugging Nature Woman I wish I could still fit all my thoughts into a sigular page, but I’m glad it works for you. Do you not find it restrictive doing that like what if one day you don’ journal as much on a page would you finish off the page with a new entry the following day or just let it be and continue on to the next
@@quackwackers3621 Maybe it would help if you´d get massive A4-Journals. For such I needed three to four months and it was a lot of space.
About the amount of journals - I have thought about dropping journals I don´t wanna reread really at public bookshelfs.
Someone would be amazed. I´d just imagine me finding another persons journal.
And If I overpaint all of the names and personal data it wouldn´t be so scary anymore.
Maybe that´s something for you too!
But for now I keep my journals.