{"id":2797,"date":"2008-03-12T21:52:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T02:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/12\/keeping-a-diary-supports-personal-development\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:56:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:56:06","slug":"keeping-a-diary-supports-personal-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/12\/keeping-a-diary-supports-personal-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping a diary supports personal development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/2330454874\/\" title=\"Keeping a diary supports personal development by m-c, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3291\/2330454874_efbdace3c1.jpg\" width=\"460\" alt=\"Keeping a diary supports personal development\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes people translate the daily stuff in words that affect us profoundly.<\/p>\n<p>I am keeping a diary since i&#8217;m a kid, writing mostly everyday &#8211; the good, the bad, and everything in between. Expressing silently my biggest fears and dreams is something now part of my daily routine, like a silent meditation, because i know for myself that the ability to put words on what happens inside me brings a level of clarity which nothing else can bring.<\/p>\n<p>And tonight i found this, from Stefan Sagmeister&#8217;s new project, <a href=\"http:\/\/thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com\">Things i have learned in my life<\/a>, a website and a book of the same name, which i am sure are both worth some of your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes people translate the daily stuff in words that affect us profoundly. I am keeping a diary since i&#8217;m a kid, writing mostly everyday &#8211; the good, the bad, and everything in between. Expressing silently my biggest fears and dreams is something now part of my daily routine, like a silent meditation, because i know&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/12\/keeping-a-diary-supports-personal-development\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keeping a diary supports personal development<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8235,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/8235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}