My favorite way to fill up a journal is to do stream of consciousness writing.
This is my morning pages journal where I write in it every morning.
It's basically letting your thoughts flow onto paper without filtering yourself.
Trust me, it's like the best thing ever.
I love it.
You can also keep an evening journal.
I love to keep this by my bed
so that I could just brain-dump all of my ideas and emotions before I go to sleep.
That way I could go to bed with some peace of mind.
You could also keep a notebook of your monthly highlights.
At the end of the month,
I'll review what happened and just jot down the highlights of that past month:
people that I saw, places that I went, just so that, at the end of the year,
I can look back and see my year at a glance.
I also love to keep a gratitude, joy, and success journal.
About once a week,
I'll sit down and write down the things that I'm grateful for, things that brought me joy
during the week, or little victories that I could celebrate with myself.
This is something I've shared before.
It's called "Current Me VS.
Future Me".
What you do is: on one side of the page, you paint the picture
of who you are at the moment, and then on the other side of the page,
you paint a picture of who you want to be, who your ideal self is.
And it's a really great way to just evaluate your goals and how to get to where you want
to be.
You could also keep notebooks just to doodle and express your creativity
in different visual ways.
I always have random doodles here and there.
I also love to keep a notebook just for poetry and songwriting.
So if I ever have ideas for pretty words or verses, then I'll put them down in this notebook.
I'll also put down chord progressions and ideas for melodies,
and just play around with that kind of stuff here.
If you're lucky enough to travel, you can definitely keep a separate notebook for your
travels.
This was my travel notebook when I went to study abroad in Italy.
And I kept little receipts from here and there.
I have this brochure
from when I went to see Lang Lang play at the theater.
And it's a really nice way
to kind of scrapbook but also journal all of your memories while you're there.
And you could see here, I listed out all the cities that I visited in that semester.
It was amazing.
This was my notebook for taking notes when I'm learning something new,
specifically when I'm taking online classes or I'm watching online tutorials.
I like to have a notebook just for things that I'm learning
so that I can always go back and reference my notes.
I also love having notebooks for planning and scheming.
I don't know
how else to describe these notebooks, but it's just the place where I plan
and organize all of my ideas and my creative projects.
That's a timeline
from my Honestly album.
And later on I have plans on this app that I was working on.
And then I have plans on Lavendaire, before I even started the blog and the YouTube.
I kind of had it all planned out, just how it worked in a system.
And then I have different mindmaps.
This is flowchart of a short film that I was working on.
Just any projects or creative ideas that I have, I love to just put it down on paper
and organize it.
Lastly, this is a journal for random, free-flowing art.
I've been learning to watercolor
and I just decided that this is a journal that I'm just gonna make a mess in.
I don't care, I just want to blah, throw up on the page just so I can express myself
and play with no judgment.
Just literally wreck this journal.
I hope you liked these ideas on ways to fill your notebooks.
By the way,
I have an entire journaling playlist which I'll link below and on the screen,
so check that out if you're interested.
Thank you so much for watching.
Love you all.
Bye!