--- title: Mari's Life Matters Blog | CreateWriteNow | Life Matters (3) description: Life Matters | Discover how Journaling For The Health Of It® helps you with your Money, Health, and Self Matters in our monthly problem-solving columns. (3) --- [Skip to content](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/life-matters/page/3#main-content) Close ** Click to close Learn from real people, just like you, how therapeutic journaling can benefit your life. Within these personal stories you’ll find journaling tips, tricks, inspiration and ideas that help you structure your journaling practice—and discover the true value journaling can bring to your life. Find the inspiration to keep going and the motivation to make journaling work for you and your hectic schedule. Learn about these everyday people who made the decision to put pen to paper and how it transformed their lives! Have a problem getting back into or staying with your Journaling Power Practice? CreateWriteNow provides 300+ unique, soul-searching journaling power prompts here that will inspire your Muse and jumpstart your word flow. Life Matters Blog | [Health Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/health-matters), [Life Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/life-matters) ## [Health Matters: Finding Your One Thing Through Journaling](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/health-matters-finding-your-one-thing-through-journaling) [Stacy Fisher](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/author/stacy-fisher) What is the “one thing” that, if you committed to doing it consistently, would have the biggest positive impact on your health? Exercising? Eating Healthy? Scheduling that doctor’s visit you’ve been pushing to the bottom of your to-do list? Learning how to say ‘no’ and set healthy boundaries? Getting enough sleep? A clear vision is essential when it comes to achieving any [goal](https://www.createwritenow.com/journal-writing-blog/staying-focused-by-asking-the-right-question), but especially when it involves your health. In the book The One Thing, author Gary Heller suggests that your biggest “one thing” is your purpose. Everything else either moves you toward your purpose or is a distraction. The same goes for your well-being: the sum of the little things you do every day determines your [whole health](https://www.createwritenow.com/journaling-power-workbook/health-matters-whole-health-journaling-challenge-review). 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