Article: 5 Tips for writing personal notes
5 Tips for writing personal notes
1-Moment of Reflection
Writing is very powerful, writing brings us clarity and connects us with our thoughts and feelings.
Writing personal notes allows us to communicate with others from another place, from a more intimate place, which offers the opportunity to make a deep connection with the chosen person.
Despite the great advantages that technological and electronic advances provide us with, with all their accessories that allow us to be instantly and constantly in contact; the true communication that makes connections, occurs in moments of reflection, when we pause and connect with moments of remembering lived experiences, in reflecting on what we want to transmit to the person, those very enriching moments, which ironically are achieved with something that for some may seem old-fashioned, which is only achieved with something as simple as writing a personal note by hand.
Contrary to what some may argue, there is no longer a need to write personal notes by hand, since you can send a WhatsApp, a greeting by email or make a call. It is absolutely a wrong perception, because we cannot fool ourselves that this does not really connect, it only somehow meets certain expectations, but deep down there is no more personal and intimate intention that makes that click that the sentiment reflected and written by hand means.
2-Time and Place
There are two keys that are key to any type of writing, which are Time and Place, these two are usually inseparable. The best time to write is when you are close to your emotional response, for example, if you receive a gift and when you open it you are delighted and feel deeply moved, that is a key moment that invites you to reflect and you are in connection with the feeling, if the place allows you to pause and write a thank you note, you will be in the right channel to do so.
When you want to write a greeting card, it is best not to do it in a rush, feeling dazed because you are going to give it to someone else. If possible, do it in advance.
Find time to think and reflect specifically on the person you are going to congratulate. This way you will be able to reflect with time and only focus on the person, on what you want to communicate to them, on what they represent for you and what you feel for them. We will wander between reliving experiences, feelings and so much will come to you that you will be surprised by everything you can write to them. If you make a specific place to be able to write and they invite you to do so, it will be of great help. Many creative people, writers, as well as productive people attest that it is crucial for them to have a place that they become familiar with in order to make it their creative place, their place to write.
3-Focus on the person
To get the words flowing, focus on the person you are writing to. Who is this person? What does this person represent to you? What do you know about them? What are some of their favorite things? What is your relationship with them? How does this person relate to what you want to write to them? (a thank you, a loss, a celebration, etc.) Then, put yourself in the desire to make a connection with them, imagine them, put them in your thoughts, focus on them, on their points of view, and little by little, an endless number of thoughts and ideas will emerge, as well as concepts that you can link together to write from a special place, from which you will continue to connect with that person.
4-Connect the dots to land them and achieve communication
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After you manage to focus on the person, the brainstorming of feelings and ideas begins and that's when you start connecting the dots to be able to write about what you want to communicate, thinking about the objective per se of the personal note, the event, the gift, the kind gesture, the news, of what you are going to write about.
By putting all the ideas, feelings and concepts together, they will begin to fit together and you will become enlightened in the concepts you want to take in order to flow into what you truly want to convey and make them feel.
5. Notebook of ideasSomething that helps me a lot to have a better brainstorming and feelings is to have a notebook to write personal notes, which you can divide into birthday greetings, Mother's Day greetings, Father's Day greetings, in which you write your drafts of the notes, by having a record you can review what you wrote to your mother last year, to your mother-in-law, to your best friend, as well as to each loved one. Rereading them helps you know what you already wrote as well as giving you guidelines and ideas to inspire you to write something new or to take up ideas and concepts that you want to communicate. In some cases, they will be fortuitous events of a particular thank you that you wrote to someone special. In the case of greetings, it helps you to relive as well as continue remembering unique experiences and anecdotes that will give you plenty of material to connect as many times as you want with the desired person.
There is no better time to connect than when you take the time to write a personal note, and a recurring moment that gives you that opportunity is birthdays .
The central idea of ​​these 5 tips that I just shared with you, which will help you write personal notes, is that the best way to maintain an intimate connection with people is by writing from the place that each of them maintain in you, and what better than with a personal note written by your own hand, make it your personal seal.