Minimalism isn’t about throwing stuff away — it’s about your mindset, your values, and yes, your life. — Our modern society encourages consumerism — buy more, bigger, prettier, pricier, rarer — it’s all about the acquisition of more STUFF. Not only is it hard to afford such a lifestyle, but eventually you’re going to run out of room — there’ll be no place to put all the STUFF. …

Journaling is a great way to explore your feelings, analyze and learn from the events of your life, and relieve stress. — Journaling is a well-established and recommended self-development practice in therapy and psychology, and it works as well for children as it does for adults. Journaling can be composed of drawing or sketching, pure writing, combining electronic keystrokes to create entries, a voice recording, song, or symphony, or a collage/combination of…

Reflect on experience, challenges, and growth — YOUR WAY — Starting and keeping a journal is a wonderful and thoughtful activity that will boost your personal growth and provide you with a place to think and record those thoughts. Writing your journal entries by hand forces you to reflect on the elements, choices, and outcomes of your life regularly —…

Lower your stress levels and frustrations while solving your struggles. — It’s a simple yet effective strategy that will help you figure out your problems and solve the dilemmas that face us every day, week, and month of our lives. What is it? Journaling! If you’re not convinced — perhaps you’ve never established a journaling habit, or if you had one…

How can you use smart questions and your personal journal to increase your level of self-knowledge? Who are you? What’s your story? How did you become who you are right now, and who you are becoming? Asking questions is a fantastic (though sometimes risky) way to deepen your level of…

Learn to be at peace with yourself and deepen your self-understanding. When Socrates said, “Know Thyself,” he was trying to teach his students how to be at peace with themselves — their individual, unique, and very human selves. …

Journaling is much more than the stereotypical image of a teenager lounging on their bed, starting the day’s entry with “Dear Diary.” It’s a tool that offers a host of benefits for your mind. — “Dear Diary…today I couldn’t help myself. I smiled at HIM as he walked by me in the hallway, looking right into his dreamy eyes. I wasn’t expecting it, but OMG — he smiled back at me and winked…whatever could it mean?”

We’re all on a journey through this thing called life — traveling from one place to another and recording the details along the way. — A Journey — according to the Oxford language dictionary, is the act of traveling from one place to another. Our lives are, in a very real sense, journeys. We begin as frail, soft, cuddly, cute, and much-anticipated mini-humans — full of need and emotion, desire, and demand. The older we…