Making New Years resolutions is pointless if they are random phrases. Those who journal have the best advantage at keeping New Years resolutions, providing they begin 2012 correctly.

No audience = Lack of purpose ~ Lack of purpose = No focus. No focus = An audience of one.

This past week I was thinking about taxes. Taxes bring out the best and worst parts of us. No other time of the year are we more challenged than now. So I decided to write down some journaling ideas for tax time.

Here are some 'FUN' journaling prompts for you.

These are 'FUN' journaling prompts for you.

Anne belived her words would be of no intersted to anyone! How wrong she was. She put it like this: “Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.”

So what is an academic journal? Simply put, it is a journal essay where your focus is to share information with a large community of professionals in a specific field. Your journal, therefore, must contain relevant information to a particular field or discipline.

Writing your prayers to help keep your train of thought. How to defeat the enemy in one area of your spiritual journey.

There are so many things we can journal about, but ‘firsts’ should be right up there with waking up. Soon you will realize that each day is a new ‘first’ if we would only let it be.

There are 12 basic questions one should ask a person who journals regularly. These questions will help those wanting to begin. When one is new to journaling there are many thoughts and processes to consider