Journaling and Writing for Personal Growth

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Agenda

Discuss the use of freewriting as a creativity

tool

Know the benefits of gratitude journaling

Review the process of creating SMART goals to

promote success

Practice each of these writing disciplines

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What is Freewriting?

Helps anyone with any kind of writing

Encourages writers to Just Write!

Separates writing and editing

Keeps writers in training

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Practice: Freewriting

1. I will keep track of the time

2. No one will be sharing their writing
3. Keep writing the entire time
4. Do not think about what you’re GOING to write
5. Resist ANY editing
6. We will discuss how the practice went afterwards

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Benefits of Gratitude Journaling

Thoughts can make us feel stressed

Feeling grateful for something we have now

changes the way we feel

Thoughts, and then emotions, occur almost

instantaneously, and we soon feel better

Gratitude takes our minds off stressful thoughts

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Practice: Gratitude Journaling

1. Write about what you’re grateful for

2. I will keep track of the time
3. Be more specific than 1) Family and Friends, 2) Home, 3) Work,
4) Good Health
4. Accomplishments or Good Fortune, Big Things or Little Things
5. Share one thing

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Writing SMART Goals

S - Specific
M - Measurable
A - Action oriented
R - Realistic
T - Time limited

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Are These Well Written SMART Goals?

1. Sell my house for a million dollars next year.

2. Become an important and respected figure in my profession.

3. Buy a big screen TV before football season starts.

4. Improve my business writing skills.

5. Live in a paradise-like setting without having to work.

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Practice: Writing a SMART Goal

1. Write a SMART goal of yours

2. State all five characteristics
• Specific
• Measurable (to suggest task list)
• Time Limited (start or end time)
• Action Oriented (I can achieve this goal by my own actions)
• Realistic (I have the resources)

3. Share your SMART Goal

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Other Types of Writing and Journaling

• Visual journals

• Idea journals

• Bullet journals

• Project journals

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Summary

Know the benefits of gratitude journaling

Discuss the use of freewriting as a creativity tool

Review the process of creating SMART goals to promote success

Practice each of these writing disciplines

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