Looking after ourselves
Hi anyone who is reading this. I’ve been thinking about journaling lately but I always get caught up with it, it often is all my negative thoughts that are written and it actually keeps those things going around in my head.
This week has seen me have a few awakenings. I’ve thought about the 365 project and there is a great thread on that here. I’ve thought about gratitude (there are some threads on this if you type gratitude in the search bar there is quite a few).
@greenpea started a thread on what music or poetry uplifts you which is called ‘what song or piece of poetry gets you up in the morning and why it makes you never give up’ and can be found here
the crunch came for me this week when we celebrated an important family function and I realised the next day not one person took a photo of any of it. It made me feel so sad.
Long story epic 😜 I just found this app that kind of incorporates all of the above. I only want to focus on positive things for now and this is a way of doing it. The app is customisable which is awesome. It’s called grid diary. Basically you can create your own titles and it prompts you to answer them. You could use it from anything from a mood tracker to a full journal. I’ve decided to use is as a way of recording positives but also as a prompt to make sure I look for them to record and as a bit of a mood/ health tracker. It’s also a way to try to keep me more present during the day.
This is what I came up with but you can choose anything. I’m hoping it will be a journal of neutral and positive moments and make sure I record the important ones. For me it’s important because I can’t visualise and so seeing images is the only way to connect to a memory.
The last two boxes that didn’t fit in the screen shot were a song I listened to today and something I remember smelling today.
You can then put it in read mode and it looks like a diary/journal. The thing I liked is it only shows what you entered for the day so there are not lots of unanswered gaps. And you can add photos but not much else. I know there are better apps out there for this but I loved the simplicity.
Anyway would love to see others share apps that have been helpful and why.
@Teej I just wanted to drop by and say what a terrific idea! Thank you for sharing.
Not having a mobile device or being much of an app user, I tend toward a note book, or computer document, but get slack at keeping it up at times.
Like you, I've made a commitement to shift my focus to more upbeat and uplifting things for myself. I wrote about it only moments ago myself. Must be something in the air!
I like how your app can be customised to fit one's own situation. Well done you! 
