The Benefits of Keeping Track of Your Life

Days pass by really quickly. Before you know it, the week is gone, the month has passed, and the year has ended.

Some people choose to keep track of their life, be it through a blog, a diary, a picture book - whatever that person feels is an appropriate recording of their days. Keeping track of your life actually has several benefits, all of which could push you to start doing so or to start doing a better job at it.

1. Look back. The simplest benefit, but it should not be taken for granted. Looking back on the awesome things that have happened could inspire you. On the other hand, looking back on the not-so-awesome things could hurt, but it could also give you more drive to succeed in the next stages of your life.
2. Clarify things. While keeping track of your life, be it through words or pictures, you get to study all the intricate details of your days. You learn to realize that if it wasn’t for this thing that happened last week, this thing wouldn’t have happened today. You see the bigger picture of everything that’s happening around you, not just what you remember as you go to sleep every night.
3. Record lessons. So this is a great place to hang out. So this person shouldn’t be trusted. So this is how you do this awesome thing. The lessons of life, from the most mundane to the most profound, become so much more important when you’re able to remember them. Because what’s a lesson learned if you don’t use it, right?
4. Share to the world. This is the last benefit and the most important. Why would anyone be interested in my life, you ask? Well, it’s because it’s yours. Not mine, not his, not hers. Only you go through it, and only you understand it the way that you do. It’s a mystery to everyone else – and that’s what makes each person’s life most interesting.

“Inspirer: Poetic observations” by Allen Vaysberg is one such sharing of a person that kept track of his life – but instead of an everyday account or an album of pictures, he uses the power of poetry to share his life to the world.

“Inspirer: Poetic observations” is currently available in Kindle format at Amazon.com. Click on the link to preview the book or download your own copy.