HOW TO JOURNAL *for beginners*

[@Bloom22-o4z]

I'm 12 years old and about to finish my 10 journal , l have been daily journaling for 701 days.Your such a big inspo for me and inspired me to journal.I also pray the Lord is with you and guides you and your soon to be husband in marriage .Wishing you all the best , God bless you ❤❤❤

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

I just finished my 10 journal too and I'm also 12! How long have you been journaling??

[@Reputation13evermore]

That's so impressive, I wish

[@Bloom22-o4z]

@@kaylaroseharwood2810 l have been journaling since l was 7 years old .And started daily journaling in November 2022

[@Bloom22-o4z]

@@Reputation13evermore You can try to journal too , l believe in you

[@Reputation13evermore]

@Bloom22-o4z ty

[@ShatteredRippleBooks]

I journal because I suffer from anxiety and depression. Being able to write out my feelings, ideas and interests is so helpful and calming. I can write up to four A4 pages a day, some days much less. I actually get anxious when I'm running out of space in my journal because I need it! I always have to have a backup at hand. Which reminds me I need to buy one 😐. I sometimes draw or paint a page too 😁.

[@rogehmarbi]

This vid is so adorable! One thing I regret when it comes to journaling is not doing it sooner... Can't help but to feel a bit jealous to those who have records of their earlier, younger, and more carefree years...

[@sammirivas8982]

Same

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

Same

[@oliverbrunninge]

I would assume that most people who journal can relate to this, if they didn't start really early. I started journaling November 2020, at 16 years old and eventually I started daily journaling on January 1st 2022 (Wish I started going daily earlier aswell). It's easy to say that I wish I started as soon as I learned to write, but couldn't I at least have started on January 1st 2020. Not just because of all the craziness around Covid (Not THAT crazy since I live in Sweden, no lockdown), but because I started at a new school that fall. Wish I would've written about that whole adventure, and I also would've enjoyed having some memories written down from the school I went to before that.

[@ArliaFae]

I’m 31 and only started journaling this year. I’ve already recorded so many memories in these past few months. I also wish I started earlier, but better late than never!

[@BHAVYA_JHA.]

omg same even though i started journaling at age of 8(2016) i was a bit inconsistent till 2021 , i wish i wrote more as a kid but its ok ig

[@KoraKakishita]

I am 9️⃣ years old and I am so close to finishing my scrapbook 📔 thank you for giving me ideas 😊

[@Aurafyn]

I'm left handed too. Thank you so much for the tips. 😊❤

[@jennajohnson1237]

I sometimes have a hard time finding the motivation to get up and journal if I feel like I have nothing to write about. Watching your videos as well as other KZbinrs journaling videos while I write helps a lot :)

[@itzissastblw]

hiii thank you for this video you have helped me be motivated to start and i have been watching your vids for 4 yrsss!!!

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

Same❤😊

[@trinitycraft1358]

Thank you Carrie walker for this video , I been journaling since I was in middle school and I still journal

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

That's crazy!

[@ninahuddie9835]

I am 13 and I started journaling in april 2022 and today will be my 967th day daily journaling, and I'm in my 7th journal. I've been watching you since the first day I started journaling, you are my inspiration 🩷🩷 You have also inspired me to write more about Christianity in my journal entries

[@Drew-rr7gw]

I’ve been journaling for 3 years now! I wouldn’t have been able to do it without you. Thank you Carrie

[@leahweiland9383]

You r the best finished my 1st journal 📓

[@AestheticGirly2443]

Hiii Carrie!!! I’m finishing my 3rd journal today!!! I started daily journaling on January 26th all because of you. It’s been almost a year!!! 🫶🫶🫶

[@NightRayne21]

I’m going to start my 4th journal in 15 pages! Thank you so much for the motivation Carrie! ❤

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

Wow!! ❤😊

[@TaylorGirl_13]

Tysm Carrie!! You got me into journaling ❤

[@BHAVYA_JHA.]

Hey so i started journaling back in 2016 when i was like 8 years old and over the year my journaling pattern changed so much at first it was just a random notebook i use to write about my day ones in a while or a place for me and my friends to scribble or write stuff during class, than in 2018 i started writing more frequently though i lost both my 2018 and 2019 diary , than finally in 2021 i started writing properly and now after almost 8 years of journaling I have started writing daily its been like 28days only but still I am so glad I am doing it. You find ur style of journaling eventually , instead of sitting down to write all my thoughts at one time I have started writing throughout my day when ever i feel like I start a entry at 12AM and end it before sleeping this way i am able to document my thoughts instead of just sitting down ones and trying to write them all down. I hope this is the beginning of my daily journaling

[@LilyAnais-qj5px]

thank you Carrie for making this video, i have been journaling for a 1 whole year now and i still struggle so thx you are the best. LOVE YOU CARRIE JOURNALING ARMY FOR LIFE

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

I'm starting a daily journal in 2025!! Any tips?

[@oliverbrunninge]

@@kaylaroseharwood2810 Carrie's tips are great, I wished I began writing with ink earlier, Carrie convinced me and setting an alarm is great, I would recommend setting it so late that you don't think "I'll do it later", mine is att midnight, but I get a notification at 22.00 (10 pm). I've been journaling since 2020 and been doing it daily since January 1st 2022 (Missed some days this year because I had to go to the hospital). Here are some things I would recommend thinking about. Be careful with how much you share your entries. I do now and then read some things I've written to my friends, being conscious of the fact that you sometime in the future may share your entries with someone else isn't optimal though, being honest in a journal is something I find hard enough as it is and this doesn't make it easier. I don't see it as a huge problem though, many of my entries are really personal. I also want to add that you absolutely don't have to share your entries with anyone. You'll have to accept that there will be many days where you have no inspiration to write. I've had periods with several days in a row where I've hade no idea of what to write, or I just had the feeling that it was pointless since all I did those days was watching KZbin and chilling out. I would recommend you to always carry your journal with you, if you can and are comfortable with it. Most of my favourite journal entries have been written outside of my home. I've written at school, in parks, at the mall, on the bus, on planes or wherever I've been when I've wanted to journal. If something really exciting is going on during your day, let's say your travelling and you want to remember many details and the timeline. In these situations I have sometimes written small notes and the time it happened in my phone to write about it later. Don't be afraid about writing about things that have nothing to do with your day. Maybe you're in to politics, or animals, or sports, write about things you care. If you like listening to music I would recommend writing down what songs you listen to at the moment. This is especially great when you one day in future return to those pages and you are able to turn on those songs you listened to back then, it really elevates the reading experience. A great way to fill up the pages is to make lists of any sort. I wrote down my whole top 100 on Spotify Wrapped. I've ranked all the songs by my favourite artist, George Ezra. But you can make lists, ranked or not, about whatever you want. One thing I started doing this year is that I some days chose to dedicate a few pages to a single person. You probably write about quite a few people in your life other than yourself. Giving them a few pages is both really fun but it will also help your future self to understand that person who you may or may not forget in the future. Be creative and try new things. I have the luxury to know three languages and have written in all of them to mix things up. I've asked AI how I should write. Yesterday I completely ignored the lines on my page, I wrote in every direction possible. It was only short comments and it looks really messy, but it was fun. And some days you will have the luxury of being able to write page after page after page using only your pen.

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

@@oliverbrunninge tysm😊❤️

[@oliverbrunninge]

@@kaylaroseharwood2810 You're welcome! Greetings from Sweden

[@whispermeadows]

Thank you, Carrie for these amazing and motivating videos! It's because of you that I'd started journaling and have kept up with it for almost a full year already. Although I don't journal everyday like you do, I've still been very consistent with my writing and I find it extremely calming and therapeutic. It's the perfect hobby for anyone at any age! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!💯💜

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

Her vids are soo good.😊

[@flybalbu]

I started journaling on July 1st 2023 at 16 so July 2025 will be my 2 years of journaling! A bit sad I didn't start journaling earlier (I had a failed attempt from 2021 and a "vent book" I kept from 11-15, but that one only has drawings and negative entries) but even just looking back at my thoughts from 1 year ago is so insightful (and sometimes cringey, but that's the beauty of it). Carrie, you were one of my inspirations for why I started journaling, I have a few entries about you and I try a lot of the journaling techniques you use (like putting words in a different color to make them pop! or using white on a sticky note) Though lately a problem I've been having while journaling is getting sidetracked by a random thing mid entry and it taking longer than it should because I'm not 100% focused

[@CalebBaldwin-j6s]

I've been journaling for four years now. You are a huge inspiration.

[@AngelRose-y6o]

On the note of journaling everyday to avoid getting behind and avoiding journaling all together, I used to struggle a lot with that but one thing that helps me ( I don't journal everyday) is to write how I'm feeling, what I want to write about ect on my email and screenshot it to copy it over later, or to write it in my notes app and do the same. I also found it was less intimidating that way so I'm able to be more honest and document smaller details I probably wouldn't have otherwise. I would recommend copying them over at the end of the week if you write very often throughout the week to avoid getting really backed up but I hope that helps and made sense ❤️

[@vaibhavi2301]

Ohhh..I never thought of it this way..its actually a very brilliant idea..Im grateful that I came across it...thankss for sharing this idea..this definitely will help me😄

[@ShayleePierce-ld7he]

Hi Carrie I love journaling and since I’m moved into the assisted living now I have been journaling about what me and my freinds do it’s allot of fun to write everyday about are new adventures 🩷😇

[@syedaruqayya4884]

I'm 35th!!!! Much needed video

[@SaanviSathish-j3n]

I've been on and off again with my journal and the journaling prompt idea will help me to not be indecisive about what to write since there's hundreds of options. I'm going to write them tomorrow in a glass jar with some of the prompts you showed in the recommended video, thank you Carrie❣

[@The_tomboy1234]

the last journal i filled up was THICCC i glued so much stuff in it i cant even close it 🤣

[@BookGal-mv7kx]

I just hit 5 years of journaling end of last month! I started when I was 9 and am on my 5th journal. I started daily journaling a little over 3 months ago, and I don't think I'll ever be able to go back! I really only started writing regularly a year or so ago. Before that a journal could last me a year or three, lol, and now I'm lucky if they last me three months!

[@lavenderlovesdogs]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SO MUCH CARRIE!!!! KEEP UP ALL THE HARD WORK!

[@ElinOlsson-p7z]

You really inspierd me to start journaling and thatnks to your journal reccomendations i have found my dream journal. Love you carrie

[@Hailey-iw4yr]

hey! i’ve been watching you for 2 years and i just finished my 3rd journal yesterday! btw ive been waiting for a part 6 of the reading my old diaries series. if you don’t want to it’s okay but it would be really fun to watch ❤️

[@Hailey-iw4yr]

i meant part 7

[@shivani9308]

I actually made a journal this year. I didn't have a journal and didn't know when I would get the chance to buy one so I made one or I knew I would just excuse not journaling because I did not have a journal which is a prerequisite for journaling. I am so prid of it. It is very pretty and I love it. I joined the pages and cover bh a cute white ribbon and it's lovely. Ty for being such an inspiration 🩷

[@EC4U2C_Studioz]

I enjoy watching your journal and Pentel videos.

[@lizzymiku7759]

HI CARRIE!!! i’M ON MY THIRD JOURNAL THANKS TO YOU!!!

[@lizzymiku7759]

Wow I messed up my spelling-

[@alisonwalker9078]

I bought a few journals and I have written in mine several times this year.

[@CeliaJournal]

I love to write about my day what I do to how i feel and what i see! And sometimes if I miss out on a few days I sometimes put maggazine clippings and sometimes quotes! I love doing that too I love being creative and I love writing!❤❤ Love your tfs!❤❤

[@liliankay09]

I have been journaling since June 2022 when you inspired me!! I just finished my 22nd journal!!

[@oliverbrunninge]

22?!?!?! Woooow

[@liliankay09]

@oliverbrunninge Yes! Thank you!

[@Swiftie903]

Tysm! I’ve always never known what to journal about. This vid really helps! Thanks a lot!❤️❤️❤️

[@PinkHawk191]

I'm also left handed as well! I love doing it with my daily Pepsi Zero Sugar. I've been journaling since I waist school. I'm over 30 journals. I found a cute sparkly composition notebook at the pharmacy near my dental office. I couldn't resist getting it. I'm using that journal right now. It has made me so happy when I journal in it!

[@JadeOrmondy]

Oh and yesterday December 21 was my three years of journaling, and I’m on my fifth journal💕

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

Yay 🎉😊

[@JadeOrmondy]

Thanks 😊

[@challengerdog6419]

Congratulations 🎊 I've been Journaling for 1 year (not every day) but I'm also on my 5th journal 🙃

[@JadeOrmondy]

Omg that’s so good very impressive for only journalling for one year💕🫶🏼

[@challengerdog6419]

@JadeOrmondy Thanks! Wishing you goodluck with continuing Journaling! 💝 Also happy holidays :D

[@mionegrxnger]

I love your videos! Thank you somuch for motivating me to journal everyday! I've been watching your videos for the past year :)

[@lolableu517]

New subscriber. I'm getting hack into journaking every day. My routine to journal for a month or two. Then stop for months up to a year. Love this video

[@CrystinGigi]

I really love your videos i have been video journaling since 2021

[@just__celia]

I am probably one of your oldest viewers and have been journaling for decades. I really liked the points you brought up in this video. I am on my 24th journal of the year which has been my pace for the past couple of years. It wasn’t always like this. My writing changes with life cycles.

[@purpl3lina]

24 journals in a yr?

[@just__celia]

@ Yes.

[@skittlezcandy6746]

I like using my journal to write about random interests I have at the moment! I'm a huge rambler, so I almost write as if I'm talking to a friend or myself. I used to spend hours of my time rambling to my friends all about my favorite video games, or an artist I really like whilst knowing they don't care at all so having a journal has helped me express myself without actually talking to someone.

[@makaela9391]

I haven’t journaled in a week, my depression has gotten so bad since my now ex told me he was cheating and using me. Everyday I’ll sit down and just stare at my journal, I would love to get back into it and write everything that I’m feeling right now.

[@BHAVYA_JHA.]

hey its ok take your time, it will get better trust me sending so much love to you

[@makaela9391]

@ thank you, I am trying my best. Sending much love back!

[@tanagiberson4770]

I will be 30 in May making it my golden ✨️birthday. I started journaling in October 2008. I am in my 101st journal. I ❤love to journal. I have your ultimate journal army pack. I 💜 to journal.

[@kadence1artist749]

You’ve been journaling longer than I’ve been alive. I was born in October 2009. Where do you put all your journals?? you don’t have to answer. I just think it’d be cool to know.

[@GretalovesJesus]

I ❤ the editing so good. I be praying for you always have a happy Christmas 🎉

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

Ik she's soo good at it.😊

[@Enyscorner]

Yay I was really hoping for a video like this!!❤😊🎉I'm also on my 8th journal right now

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

Same i wanted a video like this or a vlog

[@CreativeJewelsAdventures]

I’ve been doing journaling since 2014 but did keep going in 2017 and then contently last year on August 3rd

[@kate.el77]

I've been journaling for about a year and a half now and am already on my 6th one! You really inspired me at the beginning of my journey, so thank you for that. It requires a lot of self discipline to build the habit but it's much easier to keep up with it once you get consistent with it!

[@Wonderlust126]

lol I have the green journal you used last time!!! You are so encouraging and I wouldn't be journaling right now if it wasn't for you. You're the best! ❤ Also, could you another journaling marathon soon? I watched your last one and it was really cool!

[@Leontine-kp5lo]

okey wow, this video has so mich information so short completed! i am not very good in english, because i just learn it in my school, but i understood everything. thank you very much for this video, it was soo helpful❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@BeenasBookshelf]

just wanted to thank you for what you do

[@deviaparna619]

Hi Carrie!! I've been journaling since the beginning of 2022. I randomly reread one of the Dork Diaries books that I was obsessed with in elementary and middle school and decided to start my own diary lol. My first few entries look IDENTICAL to the first Dork diaries book 😂 But I was never consistent with it until July of this year. Your videos (especially the reading your old diaries) really motivated me to write more often. And now I've been daily journaling since September!! It has helped me in so many ways like dealing with complex emotions and hard days. I'm almost done with my 3rd journal and it's a really special one since I started it in September in my first week of college! I call it my college diaries haha. THANK YOU so much for inspiring me and so many others every single day! Love you 💗

[@AveryWillard-k4g]

I have kind of a similar story!! I was also inspired by a different book (The Top-Secret Diary of Celie Valentine) in 2019, and my first two entries were almost WORD FOR WORD what was written in the first couple pages in the book, but I stopped journaling all of last year. I started again after seeing Carrie's sixth reading-her-diary videos! And it's absolutely crazy...I've been daily journaling since September 24th of this year!

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

I know soo many people who started journaling bc of the dork diaries😅😅

[@deviaparna619]

@AveryWillard-k4g Wow that's so cool lol. Mine was also almost word for word in my first entry and I continued to use random phrases that the dork diaries girl used throughout my first journal 😂 And I started daily journaling on September 19th of this year which is so close to yours!!

[@deviaparna619]

@@kaylaroseharwood2810 Hahahaha so true!! I still kinda love those books as a college freshman and read the new ones that come out lol

[@da.4302]

There are times that I literally write that I don't know what to say or write, and so often my writing will flow from that point, to writing the next thoughts I have and then the next. Just writing what I'm thinking at that moment. Making sure of putting the date and time as well. By the way Carrie, your video's have been a great source of inspiration and help. Both color, and consistency, even though I have gone days lately without journaling. Misplacing my journal is usually a factor. But your channel is the best in my opinion. Thank you, and Merry Christmas. 🙏🎄❤️

[@Hailey-iw4yr]

waiting for part 7 of reading my old journals ❤️❤️

[@JadeOrmondy]

FIRST ONE! Thanks need this one 💕

[@wrizzslay-p3i]

I finished 2 diarys , and now Im starting journaling! THIS HELPED SO MUCH

[@pepsi_person]

I’m 16 and I’ve been journaling since 13 but took a long 2.5 year break for personal reasons. I restarted last August.

[@motunrayoogunlowo1649]

Can you please make part 7 of "reading my old diaries " pls!❤😢 love you

[@diyasworld2847]

3.16 .......that was funny and cool .....way to start step 4 : start writing 🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

[@inhabitantofearth]

You’re almost at 100k subs!! 😃

[@clwest3538]

If I may: I am soon to be 64; I started keeping a journal/diary when I was in 5th grade. It was full of what happened, plans and dreams of my future. When I hit a brick wall in my life at about 26 and was cleaning out a closet, I 'found' those diaries. I spent about an hour reading through them, being hard on myself and life choices and ended up burning them all in a charcoal cooker thing. My thoughts were, "well, ... that was then and I am on a completely different, harder, uglier path now - I need a new and fresh start and path". About two weeks after the deed, I really, really regretted doing that. So, promise yourself, to never ever destroy you journals! Ever! For any reason - even if you have to pack them up in a box ... when you get to be my age, you will wish you had them.

[@TheOkorieFamily]

I've needed this video much❤😅

[@Thatgirlolllieolive]

HIII hru Carrie also early merry Christmas!❤

[@lonanpoulose9502]

❤❤❤

[@shakthibeginnersexperts1946]

Hii Happy New Year!❤ Thank you so much for making this vid as I used to journal but it was quite inconsistent but now, I have an inspiration to start from today!❤❤

[@CheezyFrog87]

Don't think I don't see Lauren Daigle in your playlist. (LOVE HER MUSIC. You should listen to Build My Life by Pat Barrett)

[@kaylaroseharwood2810]

Im starting my 1st year of daily journaling in 2025!!

[@The_tomboy1234]

let's go 🎉🎊🥳

[@Dlin54]

I'm 13 and on my 11th journal i started on jan 9th 2022 and insha'Allah (god willing)i will try to start daily journalling from jan 1st 2025 wish me good luck Also Carrie you inspired me so much and u were the reason i started journaling love you sm ❤❤

[@janiceking9567]

I have been journaling for 49 years

[@myworldaj1451]

I started Journaling when I was 9 I haven't been Journaling Every day but 2-3 times a day I'm a artistic journalist I do aesthetic & preppy arts in my journal I have this thing called ' 1 min writing and 30 mins Art' I'm about to finish my 1st official diary!!

[@angelinajuarez8022]

You have helped so much i AM on My 7th journal❤😊thankyou

[@KikiPhillips-s6t]

I want to start journaling . But I don’t want what to write about

[@Kaliiii_preppy]

HIIII 4 MINS LATE

[@quinnylovestoplay4001]

lol we have the same last name

[@CodingWithSourdough]

Are you going to start a Discord server for the Journaling Army?

[@aricbalser2647]

j j like it they for xmas if ok

[@Reasmit]

I want to write about the blessings that God has given me and about my my life I also want to write about my life

[@-AnnaAnna-]

I love you so much, Carrie! Awesome video

[@erinconway7248]

I take karate 2nights a week.im getting ready to test for my stripe on my red belt .