The Decade Journal

Resources - Starting your Decade Journal, Links and Sample sheet A pre-numbered, 500 page hard covered record book with a sewn binding makes this project easy to start! I  wanted to keep a long-term journal for many years, but the little "kiddie" 5-year diaries that I had seen, simply didn't have any appeal to me. The easy availability and reasonable price of this on Amazon made my decision for me!  At the bottom of this post, there is an affiliate link that shows you the exact Record Book I am using. I can write in a reasonably clear cursive script as long as I'm not in a hurry; but because I tend to get in a hurry I end up with a scribble and scrawl.  So I write in the Decade Journal with pencil, and  when I start getting sloppy, I simply erase and re-write. I recognize that many people print with wonderful and artful precision. Others prefer to write in ink. I only share the fact that I write in pencil, because I think it might be helpful to others as they ...

What is a Decade Journal, and Why Make One? What is a Decade Journal? The Decade Journal is a multiple-year journal briefly capturing each day's events.  On a single page, there will be an accumulation of the past years' memories on each  day, each holiday, each birthday, etc. This process provides many benefits, and I will share some of them over the next few months. Why Make One? Our brain is a powerful tool, and as we make multiple "hits" to a particular memory event, it "cements" it in our memory "file."  We are actually "remembering" the day's events four times as we do the journal entry.  The process is a mental one, and actual writing being usually only a brief two to four sentences. REVIEW: Mentally review the the days' events, and  SORT: Mentally weigh importance and sort  the events into an order for writing them down, then  RECORD: Compose and write the event down, and finally REFLECT: Thinking about your o...