ABSTRACT
Journaling is a way to record your insights and ideas, and it is a way to solidify your concerns and insights. It is also a way to learn about your competencies – with an eye toward improving them. A journal is where you begin identifying how others demonstrate their skill and how you start to think about how you might change your behavioral competencies. It is also where you can strategize and plan the execution of developing effective behaviors in a variety of contexts. A journal provides a framework for making ideas into something much more tangible. Chapter 9 compares why some people gravitate toward keeping a journal, and others do not. The chapter focuses on why journaling can be beneficial and provides detail on how to create and sustain a journal for learning. The chapter is also designed to help those who have never journaled to gain a comfort level in doing so.
