It's Never Just a Hamburger: Problem Solving by Journaling
Did you know that using a personal journal is a life tool that
will help you identify and solve problems? For journalers,
identifying problems is easy. We just re-read our journals.
There are many other good reasons to re-read a journal, one of
them being to identify recurrent themes.
Recurrent journaling themes are ideas or thoughts that keep
surfacing in a journaler's diary or blog. It's important to
examine them and learn from them.
One recurrent theme I identified in my journal is my struggle
with Mondays. I never, ever have good Mondays. Period. I wake up
cranky and go to sleep cranky. Why?
Because. It's Monday.
While I could identify the theme, (every journal entry I wrote
on a Monday reflected my misery), I wasn