Read Magazines Collect ideas from magazines. Cut out and file articles and ideas you want to save. Start a notebook on a specific topic, like household management. Paste the articles in the notebook, adding your own tips or secrets handed down from your mother. Include recipes and budgeting ideas.
Some journals are daily logs.
Some are prayers, reflections on life, accounts of events. Some are a jumble of quotations, lists, reminders, personal thoughts, and future goals. One friend kept a journal during her treatment for breast cancer, including detailed medical notes on procedures and side effects, as well as her tumultuous emotions and daily struggles. Keep a journal together with your merea. Write from your unique viewpoints about memories, struggles, questions, circumstances.