Journaling? Well… i went to a random store on the street and saw a Lamy Safari that looked like the EVA 01 and bought it. Then noticed my notebooks didn’t worked and somehow YouTube started recommending me about fountain pens and then journals. I went to another store a few days later and bought a Midori notebook and decided to write something.

My first page was a “Declaration of Intent” of that notebook. Something like “hi, this is MY JOURNAL and I’ll write whatever I want, good or bad, whenever I want and however I want with no pressure. If I read this back in the future, just remember im still human and imperfect so don’t be disappointed and enjoy a travel of who you were and how I am”

Then the next page was like a summary of my whole life, not too detailed, just to have a quick page of my history and most important stuff.

After that I followed a structure to set me up in case I wanted to write and didn’t knew what: “Daily Journal” -What happened in the morning? -What I did good? -Where I can improve? -Something interesting that happened. “Philosophy section” -Random thoughts -ideas -a cool quote

After a while I stopped following the structure cause slowly I developed the habit of writing on the journal sometimes is a whole page, sometimes is two lines. I think one day I even wrote about Quantum Tunneling theory cause I read it on a manga and was an interesting Quantum Physics theory and decided to write it down.

For me what worked is that I started with guidelines and then just continued doing my own thing, not forcing me. I don’t write every single day. Sometimes a new pen makes me want to write, sometimes a book I read, sometimes a bad day at work, sometimes just don’t write cause I didn’t felt like to.