How to write yourself down
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- Close out your mental tabs with these 4 types of personal writing practice available to anyone ✍🏻 Extra videos every week (this week, it’s a chat about doomscrolling, cozy minimalism, and writing fiction): / anagoldberg
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Chapters:
00:00 Close out your mental tabs with writing
01:25 A journal
04:20 A diary
07:36 Short notes
10:40 A commonplace book
What stops me from writing in journals, diaries, etc. is that writing being discovered and judged by others. Instead, I just "pray my day," at the end of it and let it go.
Same here ☝️…the only two times I decided to have an actual journal 📓 with very private thoughts, the first time I was a teen, my mom read it and the second time in my late 20s my ex-husband read it….Both times I was very mortified by this invasion of privacy :(
I feel the same way so for the material that could be too revealing I write in my iPad with the pencil. It’s all locked down. I recommend this.
Strap it to your body like tourists do with the money or re-evaluate your relationships and values. I mean - if you care that much about people who don't respect your intimacy, personal space and such then in, my opinion, your priorities are upside down.
@@bmxt939wow - Sometimes we think things we don’t want other people to know. I’ll give you an example. I have a step daughter who has a problem with pathological lying and manipulation and temper tantrums, and she lacks empathy and has severe mental illness. I don’t love her as a human. I write down everything she has done to us as a way of letting the anger out. I would never want her seeing that later if I died. It would be hurtful to her. It’s sometimes about protecting people. It’s not about not being able to trust them
@@MyLifeInDebt In such case there's no better solution than to write down and burn or if you need to keep your brain dump/emotional vent for some reason - hiding it somewhere. I mean people are still able to smuggle drugs, cheat on their spouses and spy on each other therefore there are tons of ways to hide your diary good enough.
Because I don't see any reasons rational enough to prevent me from jou of writing by hand.
I write journals for 14 years now .. the only time my privacy was invaded was when I got manic and my sisters read my diaries/journals to understand what I was going through ..
I was so sad that this happened , and I got realy carful in what I put on paper.. I was out of my mind in the period they did that and I give them full excuse for doing so, but still something in me got hurt for it ...
Now that I gained my mental health back the practice of writing is very therapeutic for me and I think everyone should do it it, specially analytical writing ✍️
For those that don’t want their writing read by others, write, take a photo and then save it to a locked photo album on your phone, then shred the writing.
For anyone who prefers the experience of handwriting over typing but are concerned about privacy, this is such a great idea, thank you!
I love this idea, but be careful because Google can read handwriting.
I journal, but then rip it up and throw it away, because I don't want someone to find it and judge me based on these few myopic words. I use journalling to sort out emotions and circumstances and these are ever-changing. Ripping it up allows me to "let go" and live in the now. I do have a small planner that I use as a diary of daily events and gratitude, with a weekly review. This feels safe enough to keep. It is also where I keep my reading journal and haikus that I write! As a minimalist, this system of having it all in one portable place is great! Love your videos, Ana! You're so authentic and genuine. ❤
📓 I need to start a Commonplace book. I have to much stuff in my journal 📔 Writing is so important to keeping the mind clear.
I have written in diaries and journals off and on for many years. I have also begun some commonplace books, but didn't know that's what they were called. I love collecting quotes and short poems, just little things that interest me.
In looking back, I have found some real treasures... things my boys said to me, to each other. And I have even found a few things they have written, in their own handwriting. I can't tell you what treasures they have become to me. It's almost as if they're still alive, still speaking with me.
Ana, you are a treasure! You are bringing out some of the best in me. Thank you, my dear friend!
Thank you for your touching, beautiful sharing, dear Betty ❤️
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Very useful technique that this video just reminded me about. An issue from work has bounced around in my head, made me feel tired and rough thinking about it. Written it down (messily 😊).. it will help me to filter through the thoughts and emotions this issue has caused. Many thanks for the reminder and the great references in your video. ♥️😊
Before I continue watching I quickly want to say: you are such a gem Ana 💎 I’ve been watching you since your start and every week I am happy and grateful to see you and feel your energy 🌸 love from Nastja
I loved every part of this… thank you for including Virginia Woolf…
writing is such an important form of expression and nutrition… to keep in touch with ourselves and with this world 🌍 … spassiba Ana 💕
Thank you, dear Nastja ❤️
Another great video Ana. Happy
Easter to you and brain . Have a great week
Thank you, Liam! Happy Easter to you too 🌸
After your video about writting to boost clarity and scroll less, I started a diary. It is more off a dump-diary. As I writte in it when depression gets difficult, what happened on my day, or which bad memory came back, and what I thought or think about it. It is so relaxing and rewarding. In less than a week, I got the habit or mechanism to writte in it when I feel bad.
I highly reccomend it to those who are struggling. I do psychological and psychiatric treatment, but it doesn't compare to self expression for the sake of oneself.
Dear Ana, the private diaries for kids are a scam! I had two with different styles of locks and they where so easy to lockpick! You could open them with a pen! Lucklily I discovered this toying with them when I lost the keys, but it's still upseting hahaha.
Thank you for sharing your first steps in keeping a diary! It's so inspiring ❤️ And haha, never knew that about the kids diary lockers 😅 What a bummer!
Each video contains gems of the highest worth. So generous.
You're so kind, Carole ❤️ Thank you!
as so many others have shared here, you are real gem! your unique way of perceiving and sharing ideas is inspiring. I keep a journal and have done so forever. It holds ideas and quotes and revelations and drawings as well as how was my sleep :)
Thank you for the inspiration!
Fantastic ideas and book suggestion Ana. i often take screenshots of items toremember, however getting away from tech and putting common place book sounds lovely. In addition, will probably remember better when I hand write things. Thanks so much💓
Thank you Ana, very interesting....
I have found your channel last week and Im loving it so much. You have such a way with words. Thank you for another video!
Hi Laura! I'm so glad to meet you here🌷Thank you
Perhaps another option would be to find a pen pal and write letters back and forth. Letter writing is a lost art in this day and age of tweets and texting. I have one friend in NYC who writes in-depth letters which inspire me to do the same. The topics we cover are endless.
What a beautiful practice you've brought up, Ted! I absolutely agree.
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Wonderful idea. That could make a book or a novel.
Having a diary it's very useful because you never loose the track of your projects.
Great video , thanks for tips!
Thank you so much i really enjoyed this video 💕
I really appreciate your content. You’ve inspired me to make a book of self expression. I just started it 2 days ago. So far it includes paintings, pictures of things I like and Ai art. I’d like to also include journaling, scrapbooking elements, poems and lyrics in the future. You rock! Thanks again :)
Your book of self-expression sounds like a great project, a life-long one. Good job, my friend! Thank you for sharing 🌷
Dear Ana, I've been a loyal subscriber for quite a while now, and finally want to thank you for your inspiring videos and for sharing your wise personality 🙏🏼❤️! Like you, I have a whole pile of notebooks/diaries/journals for various purposes 📚 One of them is a commonplace book, that I started last year after watching your video on the phenomenon of the (un)commonplace book 😊
Aww, I'm so glad to read that we share a passion of having multiple notebooks and that you've started a commonplace book, yay! Thank you for this message, I so much appreciate getting to know people who watch my videos 🤗❤️🌷
Love it!!!!!!!!!!
I will definitely pick up Tolstoy’s book you recommended. He is no doubt one of the greatest of the great. Love your channel and your beautiful perspective on things. So happy I found you!
And I'm so glad to meet you here, Claudia 🤗 Hope you will enjoy Tolstoy's book.
I'm pretty much addicted to journaling my thoughts at this point. It's a most peaceful thing in my life, it calms me down, grounds me and lets me to meta-think, rise above moment's emotions and prejudices.
I also want to keep short notes, but I can't get anything written down. I wait for something special, but life is pretty mundane. Maybe I just need to write anything and to not care if it's worthy of writing down, idk.
"Meta-think" - I love this! And you're right, just put on paper everything you feel like putting down and then see whether it works for you or not.
I had many notebooks for journals and a datebook and different data. That got confusing. So just a journal for me. It’s got me sorting my thoughts.
Dear Ana - wonderful & interesting! I only have a diary. I hadn’t heard of a commonplace book 📖 before 🤔 Hope you had a lovely Easter 🐣 ❤ Your channel is so inspiring thanks 🙏
thank you, dear Sharon ❤️
I use the App Obsidian for journaling and commonplace book. Everthing is connected in Obsidian. Linking thinking.
I have 2 books that I’ve started writing in, a 5 year journal/ diary and a Commonplace book (which I heard about from you, thank you!). I haven’t written much in the commonplace book yet, but I have started taking notes on my phone with the intention of transferring them to it. I’ve never been able to faithfully keep a diary, but I bought a book that only has space for a few lines per day, and 5 years per day. I think it must be the combination of low expectations (not much space) and the prospect of looking back at what happened the previous year once I catch up to when I started, I’ve been pretty faithful when it comes to writing ! I wish I had started before the pandemic, I think it would be fascinating to look back at that time, but at least I’ve started now
Thank you for sharing your writing practice, Bethany! 🌷 I think a 5 year journal is a great way to start with not much pressure, it's such a doable project.
Thanks for inspiring nuddgets of traditional wisdom that transforms thought experiment, into living text document for the benefit of futures generation in hidden art of solving wicked problems about short lifetimes, yet long workspaces.
Bonjour très chère Ana !! It's such a great topic, thank you so very much ! I really enjoy that you have been sharing about it in your past videos going deeper each time... I love writing but because of my experiences there has always been a shadow. When I was a child, when my writing was not beautiful enough, my pages would be ripped out and I had to rewrite them each sundays afternoon... Nowadays I write quite well but even if I try and want to, I can't write freely... for now ! I hope you're doing well and I hope to see you soon dear friend ❤️🌿🌸
Thank you so much for sharing your challengind writing experience, dear Violaine ❤️I hope you will get the writing mojo back! Sending much love to you, my friend 🌸🌜
Thank you dearest Ana 😊💐
See, I'm the opposite to you in regards to bullet journal - to me, it's freeing to have that sort of...structure (in a way?), where as anything else is too restricting in the sense that it hasn't got any specific structure, and I find that overwhelming.
The last ten years I keep a commonplace book,a blank journal for brainstorming and a 5 year journal( I am in my second now) where I write four or five sentences everyday.Its so interesting to read the same day of last year or the year before last.I used to be anxious about others reading my journal,now not so much.However if I don't want something to be read by others I just shred it.
Thank you for sharing your writing routine, dear Efstathia! I really like the idea of a 5-year journal. Probably I should give it a try too 😊
@@anagoldberg it's my nightly routine ,dear Ana.❤️
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I like to jot down quotes, phrases, and interesting words, but it's not an organized commonplace book. From you, Ana, I'll add something you just said in this video: "free your mind from the boiling soup of thoughts."
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I could not wait to see your new video but end up surprised that you talked about absolutely same topic from last video..I guess you are in to writing a lot right now ..just not my cup of tea.
Writing is not the only topic I'm excited to talk about here and last week's video was about socialization and introverts 😊
@@anagoldberg Ups,my bad :) .
I was rewatching your videos and probably got confused.
Rewatched 3 times what's in your bag 😂🫢.Love everything about minimalist to watch.