THE ABSOLUTELY USELESS JOURNAL FOR SELF GROWTH: READ THIS AND LEARN NOTHING

Each day I come up with a brilliant topic to write about……I think to myself about what I would write. I come up with these great outlines for the piece that I will write later in the day, and I know it’s gonna be great. The ideas usually come to me when I am in the middle of doing another task or running errands, and then when I sit down to write. It all disappears. I am at my keyboard trying to recall the thought I had, or the image that triggered my thought. NOTHING

For the last year and a half I have kept a journal. Writing a page a day, to keep the monsters away. The mental monsters. When I sit down to write I feel no pressure, no subject in particular. I just write. I have even begun my journal entry out as, “I have nothing to write about today.” That alone will begin to manifest itself in to something. I am sure it is random thoughts about nothing, however it is the act of releasing whatever is in my brain to the page. This idea of writing to add value or insight to other peoples lives, something that…