Thread: Who Writes A Diary? Do You Thing Waking Live Journalling Is Good for LD?

I like to use a small notepad for my diary. Not only it's easy to carry around, but unlike having it in a computer, I can access it at any time. This with the added benefits of writing vs typing, but I personally think that in this particular case, it doesn't make much difference and you should use whatever you feel most comfortable with.
The best part of it is when you finish one notepad and see all the stuff you've wrote in it. I still go to to the middle pages of my to study a certain aspect of lucid dreaming, and this wouldn't be possible if I hadn't been committed to writing my impressions about all techniques/discussions that I felt were important. That's the main reason why I can be bothered with a diary: I'm writing about things that fascinate me, and words flow easily, regardless of being a new schedule for exercises, or writing a new guide for DreamViews, or even planning my next ToTM. Or you know, making myself wake up. If you procrastinate with lucid dreaming, your brain will preserve your ego by coming up with excuses (I got no time, I was tired, it was an hard week). But if you get in the habit of noting down your goals/exercises, and be honest in your evaluations as why you didn't practice awareness as much as you should, or slacker with DJing, your brain will have no alternative but see that you essentially procrastinated, and that feeling of realizing your own failure will make it boost your motivation.

I see that we share yet another interest: productivity I'm currently reading How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less by Cal Newport, for my next set of self-study courses He has a great blog and honestly I find the man one of the most knowledge authorities in terms of fighting procrastination, studying/working, deep focus (this helped me loads for awareness exercises), and just identifying the best strategy to achieve something I want.

edit: That PPJ idea seems great LouaiB. I always wanted to grab some statistics for my weekly progress, but never got around to actually do it.