Journaling your experiences is a great way of helping retain information that you want or need to keep. It gives you an outward discussion with yourself on your own personal growth, helps develop communication skills, stores ideas that you have in a raw development state, helps you retain information that you have learned, and gives you feedback on things that could be improved, improvised, or discarded. Journaling is a great way to clear your mind when you need it, to help keep the goals that you want to accomplish as your main priority. Anything that you want to achieve afterward is still in your journal.