Like any habit, journaling is easier said than done. I tried for years (all of the half-empty notebooks in my childhood bedroom can attest to this) and didn’t form a sustaining habit until I studied abroad in college and wrote in a travel journal daily. Something just clicked during that time, and I kept it up when I was back in the States, where it morphed from a catalogue of the places I visited and food I ate into a place to work through feelings, expand on questions or random observations and set goals for myself.