“I don’t have a creative bone in my body” is what Rosemary often hears from many people.  Journaling is an age-old medium that generates ideas, identifies patterns, helps you face your fears, deal with change or work out issues and create solutions. Journaling can be done through writing with pen to paper, drawing, mind mapping, sketching, even doodling. The point is to create and maintain a daily practice of something that gets your mind to a level of stream of consciousness.  When that happens, the words just flow.  To get there though takes a daily discipline of  just 10 minutes.  Reaching stream of consciousness may not take long, but does require consistent practice.  

If facing a blank page creates terror in you, there are all kinds of prompts, suggestions, ideas, etc. to get your writing practice going.  And, it doesn’t matter what you use – a composition notebook, a journal that you make or a note pad… the idea is to write.  Get it down on anything you can – paper, napkin, or sticky note.  Whether you get a thought in the middle of the day or the middle of the night, jot it down in your journal… you can always come back to it later and embellish on the thought.