I tried doing the morning pages, too, and also found them to be mostly redundant for someone keeping a paper journal plus an online blog. I think it helped me occasionally to get out some of the overwhelming stress about work that I was dealing with in the mornings, but I have since gotten a new job that does not cause me to almost cry in the shower every morning, which seems like a better solution than writing about the stress. I also thought a lot of her ideas (especially in the introductory chapter rang true but some of the exercises she proscribed were more frustrating than anything else. I quite fairly early, after trying to not read anything at all for a week as proscribed. Feh. Life without reading is not life and I'm not giving it up just because a book from the self help section tells me to. *sulks*
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Date: 2005-06-09 05:33 pm (UTC)