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Why Your Journal Shouldn’t Be Perfect — Keep a Messy Journal

30-Day Challenge — Finding Your Journaling Style — Day 26

Why Your Journal Shouldn’t Be Perfect — Keep a Messy Journal

When many people think of journaling, they imagine themselves writing perfect notes in a beautifully bound book. It’s a very lovely image, but it’s rare that real-life fit the images in our minds. It’s important to remember that it’s okay for things to be different than we may have pictured them to be. In fact, that’s just a big part of what makes life fun and interesting. Life is rarely perfectly presentable. It’s messy, and it’s okay for your journal to reflect that by being messy too. Take a look at all the reasons your journal shouldn’t be perfect and why it’s okay for it to be a mess sometimes. You’ll actually benefit by avoiding perfection in your journaling. Let me show you how.

Reduce Anxiety

When you go in with the idea that you’re allowed to be messy in your journal, you toss perfectionism to the side. It’s liberating to realize you can make mistakes and that it won’t be the end of the world. Sometimes those blank pages can be the most intimidating part of getting started. Once you begin, you’ll see that “messing…