Interesting article. "Why keep a diary?" @vetal

Many believe that keeping a diary is a completely useless waste of time. In fact, this is by no means the worst method of pastime, which is very useful both momentarily and in the long run. And even if you do not keep a diary, you should think about it, because with it you can:

1 - Better understand yourself
Regularly writing down your thoughts and feelings in the diary, you can better understand them. Perhaps you can find out the reasons for these or other failures, as well as see what led to the victory.
Unfortunately, we rarely get to stop and analyze our feelings. The diary will help to do this, because everything will be fixed on paper. Sometimes his study allows you to radically change your ideas, get your dream job, become healthier and happier.

2 - Express your thoughts
Keeping a diary helps to cope with anger and chagrin. By pouring true thoughts, resentments and sufferings on paper, you can better understand them, calm emotions and understand that in reality everything is not as bad as it seems, and from the situation there is a way out.
In addition, most people write about problems much easier than talking about them.

3 - Learn to write better
Doing a diary will almost certainly help you improve your writing skills. It is unlikely that this may be the main reason, but we all have to write and then the ability to correctly express their thoughts can be very useful. In the diary you can experiment - write poetry, make sketches, try different styles of presentation, develop your horizons. If you do it regularly, it will just become a habit ..

4 - Tracking the fulfillment of goals
If you set yourself any long-term goals, a simple diary can be a very useful tool that motivates you to achieve these goals. In a diary, you can track day by day, week after week, month after month, how advanced you are. The steps of the big path are not visible, but if you fix them, you will be able to look back at any moment and see exactly how much you have passed.
Especially good this method is suitable for achieving sports goals (for example, performing a certain amount of push-ups or pull-ups, running for a certain distance, losing weight to a certain weight or volume), educational purposes (read such books, learn such and such subjects), and for Any other tasks that can be broken down into components.

5 - Better understand yourself
Regularly writing down your thoughts and feelings in the diary, you can better understand them. Perhaps you can find out the reasons for these or other failures, as well as see what led to the victory.
Unfortunately, we rarely get to stop and analyze our feelings. The diary will help to do this, because everything will be fixed on paper. Sometimes his study allows you to radically change your ideas, get your dream job, become healthier and happier.