Hobbies Archives - About Journal On It

Hobby Journals

Welcome to Journal on it, the podcast where we slow down, tune in and turn the page on the story we tell ourselves. I’m Shannon. And each week we explore the powerful practice of journaling and self-reflection to help you reconnect with your thoughts, your purpose, and your inner voice. Whether you’re new to journaling or you’ve got stacks of filled notebooks, this space is for anyone ready to grow, heal, and get honest one page at a time. Let’s dig deep, write freely and reflect boldly.

Episode nine, hobby Journals.

Hello. Welcome back. You are probably wondering where I’ve been. Um, episode eight did not go as planned. I had done a journal with me episode, and I’m not certain how all of it happened. But Spotify did decide to take it down. They said the mix between music and talking wasn’t quite right, and then they said there was possibly a copyright issue and a bunch of other things.

So I’m not entirely certain what happened, but episode eight. You will not get to here, but it did happen. And then I took a week off because I was trying to figure out what happened with episode eight and one of my puppies was not feeling well, so I took some time to take care of him. But we are back at it this week, ready to roll with a whole new episode on Hobby Journal.

So what is a hobby journal?

It is a journal or a place where you keep all of your notes, thoughts, reminders, information about a specific hobby. Some people put multiple hobbies in the same journal, so it’s just kind of all conveniently placed for them. But most people choose to do one journal for one hobby.

So say you golf or you garden, you would have. One journal for golfing and one for gardening. If you’re like me, you have one for video games because I do enjoy keeping track of my video games and all the things I’m figuring out. So a hobby journal is just a place for you to keep track of everything to do with your hobbies.

Now for the pros,

It’s a great place to gather inspiration for your hobbies. If you’re a crafter or a quilter, you can keep patterns or thoughts or ideas together. It can also help you remember things, so you can go back and look at what you have done in the past and what you would wanted to do. It’s also a great place to see what did or didn’t work.

So if you are a crafter or like me, you work a lot in your garden. You can see what did or didn’t work. You can see what plants don’t belong together. I’ve done that one a few times. One of the great things is it really helps you learn. You gain experience from doing the hobby, but this also gives you reinforcement on that knowledge by making you write it down or acknowledge it so you can kind of reinforce what you’re learning through experience or like hands-on kind of things.

And depending on what your hobby is, it can be very helpful in setting goals, tracking things like metrics, like if you’re a sports person, like what’s your. Swing speed, um, things of those kinds of nature. Uh, it can really help you keep track of all of those things.

The cons,

It can take time from your hobby. If you’re busy stopping in the middle of doing something to write a bunch of stuff down, that’s obviously gonna take away from it. Um, there can also be an additional cost to your hobby if a notebook, pen, however, you’re going to keep your journal. It isn’t already kind of included there. Especially like for me, I have a weatherproof one for my garden that is pricey.

Any kind of weather resistant writing material can be, so it adds a small cost. But honestly, those were the only two cons that I found in my research and in my practical experience.

My personal experience with Hobby Journals has been very helpful.

I have two different hobby journals. One is for my garden and one is for video gaming For my garden, one, one of the best things I’ve learned is it helps me keep track of doing my little crop rotation.

Because I have a couple of raised beds and I try to rotate what is in them or which raised bed is in what location. And I have found that really helps me keep track of like, I don’t wanna grow tomatoes in the same one every year. ’cause that will deplete a bunch of nutrients and we just. Don’t quite want to do that.

The goal is to keep the soil healthy so you can get the most use out of it. That’s another thing I’ve learned and written a lot about is trying to figure out what my soil is doing this year. The soil did not agree with me so much, but I’ve written all about that. So it’s all kind of going into a different bed, or actually, I dumped one of them into the woods.

Because it had a bunch of not so great bugs in it, that would’ve eaten the roots of my plants. So I decided, let’s return those bad boys back to nature where they belong and the plants have what they need to defend against them, where my little strawberry plant did not. So it definitely helped me learn a lot about what does and doesn’t work, and how I can help my plant succeed the best.

Another hobby journal I keep.

For video gaming. Um, I play a lot of cozy games, a lot of like life sim type games, so I use it to keep track of like where certain crops are. I use a hobby journal for, like, I play a Disney game and it has little creatures that you can befriend. So I have a page that’s dedicated to the little critters, where they’re located, what their favorite little snacks are, so you can make them your friends.

I also have like. What time certain fish are out. I also play animal crossing, so of course knowing when creatures and fish are out is super helpful. And there are apps out there now, but when I first started there were not so many apps, so I definitely kept like a notebook with all of that information kinda logged in.

So I had an easy reference. Another game I play is Destiny two. I have a notebook with a bunch of different emblem codes. Back when Sir moved around a lot, I had all of his locations and what landing spot to go to for them. I kept track of like different things, what rates I had completed. If there were missions that we needed to do that we hadn’t completed, I would also write those down just so I could remember to go back to them.

My uses of them

I really used this a lot to keep track of just small information that I knew I wasn’t going to remember by the next time I sat down. Things like that is kind of what I use it for. I know a lot of people use this as like a giant hub of knowledge, and I guess with my gardening one I do that, but for video games it’s not so much.

A hub of knowledge as it is a space where I can go back, reference, look at it and see where I was and what I was doing. And it also depends, obviously on the game. Destiny is a first person shooter, so there’s less keeping track of creatures and more trying to look at my stats, figure out what my. Goals were what I was working on, was there a weapon I was on the grind for.

And with my life sim games like Animal Crossing and Disney, I’m obviously working on building things like friendships and critters and gardening and things of those natures. So kind of depends specifically on what you’re focused on as to what you’re gonna keep track of and how that’s gonna be useful for you.

Final notes

But that’s all I really have on keeping a hobby journal in reference to what I mentioned earlier about episode eight. If you did wanna see what my journal prompts were, those will be on my blog. I’m going to keep the full transcript up in case you wanna kind of poke at it. Episode eight most likely will not be published anytime soon until I figure it out, but hopefully I do figure all of that out.

As always, thank you guys for listening and I look forward to doing this again every week. We should be back on our normal schedule, and if you have suggestions for what you would like to hear about next week, feel free to leave those in the comments. I do read all of them.

Outro

Thanks for joining me on journal on it where we slow down, tune in and turn the page together. If something resonated with you today, take a moment to journal it out and let the words lead you. You can find show notes, journal prompts, and more at the link in the episode description. Remember, growth happens one honest page at a time. Until next time, keep writing, keep reflecting and keep showing up for yourself.

I’m Shannon and I’ll meet you back here soon.