Idea List: Jazz Up Your Journal (New Era)

“Idea List: Jazz Up Your Journal,” New Era, Jan. 2005, 15


It’s a new year and a great time to recommit to writing in your journal. Here are some ideas for when you just can’t think of anything to write about:

• Count your blessings—including your family and your temporal and spiritual blessings.
• Describe your earliest memory.
• List some of your family traditions.
• Tell about your favorite food or recipe.
• Write about your favorite hymn or song.
• Write a letter to your future spouse or children.
• Write about how you felt during the day even if you don’t think you did anything momentous.
• Tell a story your mom or dad has told you about when you were a baby.
• Write an account of something you saw or did, instead of just saying you did it. Details are great; they capture the experience better than general statements.
• Explain your goals and aspirations and how you plan to achieve them.
• Pick someone who is a hero in your life, and write about him or her.
• Draw a picture of your pet, and write about it.
• Think of a book you’ve read, and explain why it has made a difference in your life.
• Write about your favorite scripture and why you like it.
• Bear your testimony of tithing, the Word of Wisdom, or another gospel principle.
• Read your journal from exactly a year ago to the day, and compare your life then with your life now. Then describe what you’d like to see happen in your life a year from now.
• Write your impressions of world events and other important happenings.