What’s It All About?

  • Posted by Theresa on January 1st, 2006 filed in My Musings

I am embarking on a modified adventure. My website has changed to reflect this and so has my new blog. I am going to focus on journaling.
I have journaled for on and off (mostly on) for most of my life. Many of you read my online journal “Me ‘n’ Jack” which was my adventure through Jack Canfield’s book The Success Principles.
I felt like I was almost there when I got thrown off track. I thought I had finally reached the last step before I could become a national trainer/speaker. You see, the thing is that places like SkillPath, National and Fred Pryor Seminars won’t even take a look at you unless you are already training and speaking professionally.This is why I so wanted the Real Estate Continuing Education with that company to work out. But then things fell apart. I had to regroup and make some hard decisions.
One of those decisions was to go back to work at a furniture store (I was in furniture for 8 years). I avoided it at all costs, but I couldn’t find anything else that would pay the bills.
Another decision I made was that I would have to depend entirely on myself to get to my goal of being a national trainer/speaker. First I had to decide what my “thing” was. What was my niche? What could I bring to the world? I am really good at adapting other material to my own style, but now I was on my own. What did I have to offer that was not over-done, that was something I was passionate about, and something that would draw a crowd?
I knew I wanted to do something “self-help” but what? What made me an expert about anything? I’ve read a lot of books, that’s for sure. But then it is hard to know what is theirs and what is yours. I have read and listened to Brian Tracy (for instance) so much that I am not sure which thoughts are his and which are mine because I have incorporated so much of his ideas into my life.
This is why I picked Journaling. It is all mine. I have done it on my own forever. I know all about it. I know why I like it and how it has helped me. I know how it has helped define me, given me courage, made me bold. I know how it has led me on explorations of myself, my beliefs, my issues.
I am convinced it can be beneficial to anybody and extremely helpful to some. It is my aim to explore it fully and to bring it to you. I have divided my blog into categories.

Journaling tips and benefits -

Why should I journal? How do I get started? Is there a right way and a wrong way? What should I write about? Click on this category to see the answers to these questions and more.

Discovery questions - Questions to get you started in case you get stuck or you like having something definite to journal about every day. Click on this category to find starters for you. Feel free to share some or all of your thoughts in the comments
section.

My musings - On occasion I might feel the need to post my thoughts on a starter question, something going on in my life or something I want to be going on in my life. Click on this category to see what is going on with me.

Choices and Changes - The beginnings of a book (based on my own journal). Click on this category to read excerpts from a book I am writing.

Notes to self - About 13 years ago I was in a place in my life where I felt like no one understood me the way I wanted to be understood. I felt like no one knew me deep enough to reach my innermost hurting part.

I’m not really sure what inspired me to write a note to myself, but I did. Writing was the way I expressed myself the best…at that time it was practically the only way I expressed myself.

I needed to see it in writing before I could say it. I wrote my therapist long letters, I wrote my friends cards and notes, I wrote out lists of what I wanted, didn’t want; what I liked, didn’t like; what I wanted to do, didn’t want to do. One day I wrote a card to myself.

I have saved them all and I go back and read them from time to time. Sometimes they make me cry. Sometimes they make me remember how brave I was back then. Sometimes they make me feel proud of how far I have come and the accomplishments I have had.

I still write them to myself. Sometimes there are long spaces in between cardds, sometimes there are two or three in a row. It doesn’t matter…they are there when I need them.

On occasion I will share one with you.

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