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The Benefits of Business Journaling by Hand When you combine the benefits of keeping a journal and writing by hand, you get a boost in intellectual acuity, mental and psychological health, and creativity—all of which will do wonders for anyone who is running a business. The Benefits of Journaling Journaling, whether by pen and paper or by electronic means has...

Well, first of all, no one wants to find themselves in difficult times, even though many of us seem to have a marvelous knack for getting ourselves there. While many of us are blameless, we nevertheless find ourselves in hard times now and then, because that’s just how life is. But regardless of how we arrive at a difficult situation...

Ambition needs a sounding board, positive reinforcement, and reminders (constant, gentle, or painful). Many famous, successful people–business, political, or military leaders; creatives who are among the best in their craft; scientists, architects, engineers, etc.—kept journals. Such giants as John D. Rockefeller (business); George Patton (military); Ben Franklin and Thomas Edison (inventions); John Adams, Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill (politics); and Mark...

Journaling in general has numerous benefits—the kinds of benefits that can spell the difference between success and mediocrity, realizing one’s full potential and merely coasting along, sound mental and emotional health, and maladaptive disorders or somatic symptoms. These same benefits are true of specific types of journaling, in this case business journaling for those who are running small businesses and...

Every businessperson has a number of ideas running through their head at any given time, but the inevitable whirlwind that comes with running a business can make it easy to forget them. This is why it is a great idea to always write your ideas down as soon as they grab you. Even better to be more organized about it...

Therapy for Complicated Grief And How a Grief Journal Can Help Facilitate the Each Form of Therapy Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. —Arthur Schopenhauer What someone going through complicated grief needs to do is to work through their experience of the loss. In other words, to grieve in a normal manner. But unlike...

Harness the power of journaling to help you make sense of a global-scale health scare. At this time when we are faced with death and the threat being among the infected, unless we make our living by writing, some of us might scoff at the idea of spending some of our time writing in the midst of the chaos of...

There’s no denying we live in stressful times: deadlines, constant negotiations, financial concerns, the challenge to be relevant and stay that way in the face of the changeability of the modern audience’s, users’, or clients’ engagement, among others. Stress is how the human mind and body react to a challenge or demand. Short-term stress—such as when it helps you avoid...

What Is Complicated Grief? And Can Journaling about Personal Loss Help You Take the Difficult First Few Steps Out of the Dangerous Loop of Unresolved Grief? There’s grief, and then there’s complicated grief. Or as DSM-V calls it, persistent complex bereavement disorder (PCBD). Are you or someone you know stuck in the latter? Simple grief and complicated grief share the...

Tips on Grief Journaling and Meaning-Making is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms. —Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers Grief is a natural healing process. But in the face of almost-unnatural pain, it can seem impossible to live through the days it takes to grieve. And...