We
are living in an exciting time. Between the elections, the economy, and
the global climate shift—the world as we know it is in the midst of
major change. What the future holds is anybody's guess, but one thing
that is certain: Change, and big change, is upon us all.
How do we deal with upheaval and uncertainty? The first article
discusses change, stress, and coping, and how journal writing may help
us.
The second article is about the Journal Explorer—-tips and techniques that will help you better use that feature.
If you'd like more encouraging and motivating information about journal
writing in the days between newsletters, check out my blog at
http://blog.lifejournal.com. Please visit, set up an rss feed, and
leave a comment! And, I'd love it if you would spread the word among
your journal writing friends and colleagues about my new blog. Thanks!
We've got some news about the LifeJournal webinars: In November, Sheila
Bender and I are offering a special one time,1½ hour webinar about
how to turn a journal entry into a personal essay. Enroll now!
Also in November, we're offering two free 1 hour webinars about the basics of LifeJournal:
Thursday daytime, November 6, at noon eastern time and 9 AM Pacific time.
Tuesday evening, November 18, at 8 PM eastern time and 5 PM Pacific time.
These
webinars will offer LifeJournal customers and potential LifeJournal
customers an opportunity to learn some of the basics of the program. Click to learn more and enroll now!
Sincerely,
Ruth Folit
Chronicles Software Company
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Change, Stress, Coping, and Journal Writing
An
old adage that we've heard is, "The only constant is change." (I
googled the phrase to find the author, and it's attributed to
Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher from around 500 B.C. I thought that if
we're still quoting a guy whose been dead for 2500 years, there must be
some truth and profundity in his statement.)
During the last year our world has changed very quickly: in
technology, in global weather patterns, in global economic conditions,
and (if predictions prove correct) in United States politics. On a more
personal level, many people are quickly losing sizeable percentages of
their hard earned savings. Family and friends are losing their jobs as
companies fail or downsize, and with the subprime mortgage crisis, many
are losing their houses to foreclosure. And untold millions are sadly
losing all kinds of opportunities that they had been counting on.
Change is always a part of our lives—and right now the rate of change
is so steep we feel like we're on a huge rollercoaster ride and
probably experiencing stress. I believe that journal writing may help
mitigate some of the stress.
We've
had three sets of webinars in the last two months and feedback has been
very positive. So we're expanding to different webinar topics in
November:
We'll be offering two different kinds of webinars in November.
1.
A one-time 1½ hour webinar with Sheila Bender and Ruth Folit about how
to turn journal entries into personal essays. Offered November 11 at 8
PM Eastern time. LEARN MORE!
writers.lifejournal.com/webinar_personal_essay
2. A one-hour free webinar about the basics of LifeJournal offered two different times in November:
Thursday daytime, November 6, at noon eastern time and 9 AM Pacific time.
Tuesday evening, November 18, at 8 PM eastern time and 5 PM Pacific time.
In
a recent webinar I showed people how to create a journal entry and then
I closed it. The viewer asked, "where does the journal entry go?" The
answer is that the journal entry is saved in a database. (The database
file name is "[YourName].ljd," usually found in C:\Program
Files\LifeJournal\[YourName].
However, the
question that the user may really have been asking is ,"How do you see
the list of your journal entries?" The answer to that question is
click the "Explorer" button on the application toolbar. That opens a
list of entries that is anchored to the bottom of your screen, the
Journal Explorer.
