I journal a lot. So I journal on the topic however long I need to - days, weeks whatever. When I feel like I expressed everything I go back and review my writings and create some kind of diagram. Then I analyze it and find patterns and relationships and conflicts etc, and then I figure out what my unmet need is/ I usually write it out somewhere and start trying to achieve it. I also practice self care in the interim - decrease my responsibilities, journal lol, talk to people about it, do things that give me flow, make sure I get enough sleep, eat well, exercise.
Pretty much - groupings, relationships (I mostly think in relationships), models, whatever the data tells me it is - sometimes it’s cause and effect, mindmap, an analogy that I literally draw out and label, flow chart, hierarchy, model whatever. The most helpful ones I save elsewhere and add to it from future journals.
As I write I circle emotions. I underline keywords, I highlight examples. Then when I’m ready I go back and piece them together.
I journal a lot. So I journal on the topic however long I need to - days, weeks whatever. When I feel like I expressed everything I go back and review my writings and create some kind of diagram. Then I analyze it and find patterns and relationships and conflicts etc, and then I figure out what my unmet need is/ I usually write it out somewhere and start trying to achieve it. I also practice self care in the interim - decrease my responsibilities, journal lol, talk to people about it, do things that give me flow, make sure I get enough sleep, eat well, exercise.
I wish I had my shit together that well
My shit was so not together that I had to come up with my own framework of managing my shit. If you reach your bottom I suspect you’ll do the same.
That’s a really structured approach!
The diagram you refer to - is that grouping (or even graphing) your journal notes?
Pretty much - groupings, relationships (I mostly think in relationships), models, whatever the data tells me it is - sometimes it’s cause and effect, mindmap, an analogy that I literally draw out and label, flow chart, hierarchy, model whatever. The most helpful ones I save elsewhere and add to it from future journals.
As I write I circle emotions. I underline keywords, I highlight examples. Then when I’m ready I go back and piece them together.