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1. Introduction: Welcome to the Creative
journaling for beginners class. My name is Armand jewelry,
the founder of Vermont. He talks a media company
which helps engineers and entrepreneurs improve
their communication skills. One of the core soft skills of their money talks
brand is creativity. And a lot of individuals, we have a limiting belief
in regards to creativity. Some people are like, I'm also a logical person. I'm a problem solver. I'm not creative,
artistic in nature. But I would argue that that's something that is incorrect. Because as little children, we were very creative. No one taught us how to imagine. Instead. We were born with this
magnificent faculty. In this class. You're going to
understand that one of the ways to reconnect back with your inner creativity
is with words. More specifically, words
done via journal link. In this class, you're
going to learn about the different forms of
journaling out there. The benefits of a creative
writing journaling, along with a few
ways to get shorted. And finally, in the end, you will be given a
class project that will allow you to
bring these prompts to life yourself if you're ready to reconnect back with
their imagination, I look forward to
seeing you inside.
2. Different Types of Journaling: There's a lot of different
types of journaling out there. I'm going to talk about three
of the most common ones. One is known as gratitude
journal length. This is when you're going ahead and getting a lot of
the things that you're grateful for and
bringing it from the internal world to
the external world. Because us as human beings, the brain often tends to
look towards a negative. It's always focused on
what we don't have. And this is why with a
gratitude journal in practice, it becomes easier to bring the good stuff in the
forefront of our mind. We don't just practice of focusing on the big
ones and our life. Instead, with
gratitude journaling, we're focusing on the tiny ones. The more that you focus
on the tiny ones, the more debt focusing on the big ones just
becomes auto-pilot. This is one form of journaling. Another form of journaling is known as a free-flow journaling. Where would this one?
There's no rules. You can write, whatever
is on your mind. This is typically
a great strategy. If you're just starting off, you're one of those
rebellious people that doesn't like rules. Or you have a lot of
stuff in your mind. Let's just say you're going
through a tough time at the moment and you don't want to speak to anyone
else about it. Well, I'll pull up Microsoft document and
just start writing whatever is on your mind
and save it. Later on. You can come back and read it. And plenty of times
you'll surprise yourself. You're gonna be like,
Wait, I wrote that. Whoa, Let me read
some more on this. Whoa, this is helping me bring a lot of self-awareness
into my reality. This is a form of journaling. And the other form
of journaling is what we're gonna be
breaking down in this class is known as
creative writing journaling. And this typically when
we're given a prompt, where with free-flow journaling, there were no rules.
With this journaling. There is a rule. We have a creative
writing prompt that talks about different topics
that we can write on. From there, we began writing
the rest of the class. We're gonna be talking about
creative writing journaling, and how to focus on that.
3. Benefits of Creative Journaling: For any type of
journaling out there, we need to understand
what's in it for me. Why am I going to spend time and my energy focusing on
this type of journaling? Well, one of the benefits
is already in the title. A creative writing journaling. Creative. It pays to be creative because when
you think about it, those individuals that
rise in any organization, whether it's a company or
whether it's entrepreneurship. They have amazing ideas. A couple of years back, there was this survey
that was done with a lot of CEOs asking them, what is the number
one trait that they look for when
hiring someone? And a staggering amount
of them said, creativity, because the ability
to generate and connect ideas as
well is an asset. And what this creative
writing journaling framework, you began to take your mind
to the gym and you begin to exercise that form of
creativity into your life. Another benefit is that it gets you into the creators mindset. Think about it like this. Look to your left.
Look to your right. So many people are just over
here consuming all the time. And once they're
consuming all the time and they're
not releasing it. It's very similar to a sponge that's taking in all this water, all this gunk, but it's
never wringing it out. And when you do not wring out
the sponge, aka the brain, what traditionally happens
is that the brain begins to feel overwhelmed with this
form of creative writing, journaling, a framework, or you get into the habit of creating. The third benefit is
that a lot of times, the stuff that you create
in your creative writing, journaling prompts you can use for other ways to
build your brand. These entries can eventually
turned into blogs, can turn into daily newsletters, can turn into threads
or even tweets. So it's a habit that you're building that can eventually
compound from there. So these are just a few of the benefits from creative
writing, journaling. Or once you get started, you'll feel very good that
you picked up this habit.
4. Prompt and Write: So we're going to
keep it simple. There's two things
that's required in order to begin this
type of journaling. You need a prompt and you
need to write. That is all. The first question is, where
do you get the prompt? Well, you can go on Google and just type in creative
writing prompts and plenty will be
presented to you. You can go on a e-commerce shop and buy a creative
writing prompts journal. You can hit up a few of your
friends and be like, Hey, I think of some
interesting prompts that you want me to write
about and I'm going to do it. Or if you're feeling
very creative, you can even assign the
prompts to yourself. The next part is writing. You're just going
to execute that. We're not going to
overthink this. We're just going
to begin writing. Now, since this is something
that's creative in nature, there's different
thoughts in regards to planning this out. I'm of the philosophy that you don't plan it out or you let your body be the compass on where you should
go with your prompt. But I am aware that there are certain people who are like, I don't really like that. I'm more of a planner. So if you are someone like that, sure, you can outline
your entry piece. Once you create the outline, then you can begin writing. But the main two
components that are required is number one, the prompt, and number two, the attitude to write.
5. Silly Prompts: Let's talk about the
prompts a little bit more. With prompts, we don't want
something that's too logical in nature because that's safe. And here's an
example of something that's too logical in nature. A talk about yourself. I mean, yeah, you could
get creative with it. But let's be real. This is something that a lot of individuals are expecting. Here's something
that is not safe. Talk about what you would do
if you had wings for a day. And immediately, you
may be like what? Wings. But that's not even
physically possible. Bro, defies the laws of science. Good. Because the cilia
that your prompt is, the more potential
for creativity. Keep that in mind when
you're over here. Thinking about which prompt you should choose in order to write. Do not go for the safe options. Go for the options that
make you feel well. I don't know about that. But that, whoa, I
don't know about that. Behind it is some curiosity. You feel curious in regards to this prompt because
a part of you, the safe brain is like, I don't really know if
you can do that men. But the ambitious mind is like, but we're going to try. Because if you can focus
on these silly prompts, the stranger that it is to you, because that's subjective. What is strange for one person is normal for another person. The strange to you, the more that
you're going to get out of the creative
writing prompts journal. And the more that you're
going to flex the mind, it's sort of like
yoga for the mind. And the more that
you begin writing, the more that you keep
flexing that mine. Once you close the entropies, your mind is expanded
and it becomes easier to reach elevated
thought waves at well.
6. Build a Routine: How often should you do it? That's really up to you. Some individuals do
creative writing prompts every single day. Some people do it once a week, some people do it once a month. The interval is
really up to you. But here's some advice
that I can give. One, try your best to pick something over time
that you can stick wet. So whatever interval you choose, let's say after four
months of experimenting, you realize that sundays
are just beginning the morning with a cool little prompt entry is the way to go. Stick with it. This habit eventually begins
to compound over time. The next thing that I would
recommend is that over time, you begin reading back
your old entries. A lot of the times you're
going to make yourself laugh. You're gonna be like, I don't even recall a writing,
something like that. But you know what? I'm
a very creative fellow. And other times you're
going to look back at your old entries
and you're like, I really wished that
I added this, this, this variable within this
particular content piece. Great. Because with writing,
you never get worse off. If you keep on practicing. You build more data
to get better off. What other skills or
do you know like that? Imagine if a football player comes up to you at
age 60 and it's like, I'm getting back into
a national football. You're gonna be like, dude, you're physically not
up for it anymore. But with writing, if someone is 60 years old and he's like, I'm ready to publish
another book, then. This is not something that is beyond the scope of imagination. This is something that is
highly realistic in nature. So here's one more
tip that I would give you in regards to
reading your writing. The more of a catalog
that you're beginning to build a go farther back. So let's say today
is the day that you have been writing
creative writing prompts for two years, rather than consuming
your content that you wrote last week. I tried to consume the content that you wrote eight months ago, because that allows you to
see how far you have come. Once you've seen how
far you have come, you began to view that content piece from
a more objective nature. Where if you're just
consuming the content that you wrote, let's
say a week ago. Your feelings are involved
a little too much. It's more subjective, and
we want it to be objective. Granted, in the
beginning stages, you're not going to have
too much of a body of work. So work with what you have. But just allow this to be motivation to build
that body of work. So you can look back into the past and keep leveling
up your writing skills. And the president.
7. Final Project: Okay, so now we're going to
have some fun ourselves. We're going to be practicing on a writing prompt that
I'm going to give you. And it's gonna be very silly. On purpose. Martians have
just landed on planet Earth. They find you and they bring their army of people
in your front door. Let's say 500 people, aka
five-hundred Martians. And they ask you, Hey, we need guidance on how to
live life on planet Earth. We need you to create a religion for us. What
are you going to do? Go wherever that you feel
the story will take you. You can plan this out, aka doing some outline, or you can avoid
planning and began. So here's the prompt
one more time and I'm going to add even
more of a twist to it. So you have more fun. The alien army has found you
there at your front door. They're asking you for a religion to help them
navigate planet Earth. And I need you to do this. Make me laugh at least twice in your creative
writing journal entry, I would recommend that you write this on Microsoft document. Once you are done
with your piece, are gone and put it in the final project section
right down below. I look forward to reading it
and laughing throughout it. If you enjoyed this
beginner's class on creating a creative writing at journals are visually check out the
Armani talks.com website, which breaks down more topics on public speaking
or creativity, emotional intelligence,
social skills, and much more. This website has plenty of my blogs or creative
writing blogs, by the way, a podcast or YouTube videos and much more
money talks are com, go on and check it out.
Arman Chowdhury, Confidence thru Communication
