Ever wondered, ‘wish I could write like that’ while watching NDTV India or NDTV English news? That’s where journaling comes into the picture. Journaling is a powerful habit that you can build to write just like NDTV news. Journaling will help you improve your mental health, personal growth, and creativity, and helps you to reflect and write down your thoughts and explore your creative writing skills.
In this blog, you will explore all about journaling, why it is a powerful habit, tips for beginners, how you can effectively journal, and how you can write for news.
Why Journaling is a Powerful Habit?
Every day, we come across a lot of information in the forms of breaking news, trending stories, updates and much more from sources like ND TV. Writing or journaling can help you in many ways. Here is why it is a powerful habit:
1. Refreshing mind from information overload
2. Tracking your personal growth and what you learn daily
3. It reduces stress and helps you express your feelings
4. Helps you improve your creative writing skills
5. You can always stay informed by writing down what you learnt from the information that you saw or heard. For example, you can write what you learnt from the news today.
How to get started with Journaling?
If you are new to this creative writing form then don’t worry. Here is how you follow simple steps to start journaling:
1. Choose Your Medium: Choose where and how you are going to write. If you love to write by hand, then go with a diary where you can quickly note down your thoughts. You can also use digital apps like Notion, Evernote and even the basic notes app on your phone if you are more comfortable with electronic devices. Also, keep a journal where you can write news-inspired content or maybe summarize ‘top 10 news today’ to keep a daily journaling habit.
2. Set a daily Writing Time: Allot a particular time where you will dedicate it to only journaling. This will develop a habit of writing and generate discipline. You can even start with as minimum as 5 minutes per day.
3. Create a Comfortable Space: The key to write effectively is the space where you sit to write. If it is comfortable and as per your choice, you can think about ideas more effectively and make journaling something you look forward to.
4. Pick a Style: Everyone has their own journaling style. Take a look at these following styles and pick the one that right for you:
a) Gratitude journaling where you can write a few things daily that you are grateful about to stay positive.
b) News Reflection Journaling where you can summarize an article from www.ndtv.com or ndtv.com and add your own thoughts
c) Bullet journaling where you can simply write your to-do list
d) Stream of Consciousness where you can simply write whatever comes in your mind so that you can refresh yourself and have a clear picture of what you are thinking.
5. Make it fun: Add stickers or draw doodles in between to make it fun and want you to write more. This will develop a habit of daily writing and add a creative touch to your journaling.
Journaling Ideas inspired by NDTV:
1. Daily news Digest where you can pick 2 to 3 news articles from m.ndtv and summarize what you learnt from them
2. Mood Tracker where you can record how certain news like sports, politics, entertainment affect your feelings
3. Goal Tracker where you track what your goals are going to be or what skills you want to learn after watching the news
4. Gratitude Log where you can write what you are grateful for especially after you watch any negative news.
5. Current Affairs Reflection where you can choose any current affair topic from daily news and write what you feel about it and what could be done if it is negative.
Benefits of Journaling:
1. Stay Informed about what’s happening around you and summarize it. This can help you keep track of what you are aware about and also about current affairs.
2. Through journaling you develop a habit of writing and improve your creative writing skills and thus it helps to write clearly and convey what your feelings and thoughts are.
3. After writing your thoughts you can feel stress relief as whatever you think you are writing it down and are refreshing yourself.
4. Journaling helps to boost your memory as summarizing helps to remember key facts and thus it sharpens your memory.
5. Journaling helps you form your own opinions rather than just consuming information. You will be able to think about what’s going around you.
Common Mistakes to Avoid:
1. Don’t Overthink about how you will start or will your language be proper or not. Just start writing and you will improve over time.
2. Start small to build a consistent habit of writing
3. Don’t compare yourself to other’s writing. Everyone has their own writing style and voice and so can be yours.
4. Keep your journal somewhere safe so that you can write freely.
FAQ’s
1. How often should I journal?
Ans: There is no fixed time or schedule. It's upon you how and when to write. You can even start writing for 5 minutes daily.
2. Should I write about news events?
Ans: Yes you can definitely write about news getting inspired from sources like NDTV news.
3. How can journaling help me?
Ans: Journaling will help you improve your mental health, personal growth and creative writing skills.
4. How long should each journal entry be?
Ans: It depends upon how long or short you want it to be. It can be a few bullet points or even a whole page.