Hello and welcome!
Addressing your attempts of lucid dreaming- let it happen naturally! Do not try to force it as you may end up stressing yourself out, thus making lucidity harder to achieve. It's excellent that you're starting a dream journal as normal dreams can be just as entertaining as lucids

If you are using the MILD method, i'd most recommend doing reality checks as well.
Another thing I feel worthy to mention is a
positive attitude. Like mentioned earlier, if you stress yourself out, it can produce null results.
Good luck~
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