“The more I record my daily life, the wider my world becomes.”
The habit of recording that helped me discover a side of myself I didn't know and change my monotonous life.

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This is Linny's first self-help book on writing, sharing the joy of writing and the charm of handwriting with her 170,000 friends.
In "The World of Records," we share 25 ways to record your life in a colorful way, including a raw diary that starts with a single line, a photolog that captures fleeting moments, a transcription that collects good sentences, and a future diary that turns dreams into reality.
The author says that recording goes beyond the simple act of writing and serves to broaden the monotonous world of an individual.
Because through records, I can notice the days that passed by without me noticing, understand the lives of strangers, and dig deep inside myself to find my true self.
This book provides motivation on how to start keeping records, helps you develop the habit of keeping records, and gives you a broader and deeper life.

It was a week after I filled in the blanks on the calendar.
The first week of January should be a time of year filled with hope and excitement, but I was so depressed.
I promised myself over and over again that I would definitely start a diet starting January 1st, but I ended up going to a cafe and having coffee and even dessert.
I was disappointed that I was putting off my resolution until tomorrow, less than a day after I made it.
And I was also angry at myself for staying up all night because I didn't do the work I needed to do to prepare lectures and create content on time.
It was a week full of such bad feelings.
The following week, I looked at the calendar on the wall again to take notes, and for some reason, it felt different than before.
Rather than moments of disappointment or regret, there are times when you think, "Well, I did at least one thing a day. That's okay."
Looking back on the past week, I feel like I've had a pretty good time.

When something is going on, there are times when you get caught up in the situation and emotions of the moment and can't see other things.
As time passes and you step back and look at things, they look different.
That's exactly what I did back then.
Things that were invisible when I was caught up in negative emotions began to become visible only as time passed and my mind calmed down.
--- From Chapter 1, "Why It's Okay Even If Today Was Bad"

A mandala is made up of nine squares arranged in a 3x3 grid.
In the central square, write your core goal or topic, and in the surrounding eight squares, write your detailed goals or methods to achieve your core goal.
Each subgoal becomes the center of a new 3x3 grid where you can write down a more specific action plan.
It takes quite a bit of time to write down your core and sub-goal keywords, but I think it's a necessary time because it's a time to think about your life's priorities.
I'm using five spaces instead of eight for writing down my detailed goal keywords.
It's less of a burden than when there were eight spaces, and five spaces are enough.
--- From Chapter 1, "Let's Draw the Big Picture of Life"

Digging means 'to dig'.
I literally decided to dig into my taste in the subject.
I think my tastes will become a little clearer if I freely write down things that interest me about that month's topic.
You might even find commonalities between the things you like.
So the name of this taste discovery project is 'Monthly Taste Digging'.
Finally, on December 31st, I closed the cap of my pen after writing down my taste digging record for the day, then spread out my records for the year on my desk and looked at them for a long time.
Only then did I understand what 'taste' was.
Taste wasn't something that everyone could see as being fancy.
It didn't have to be clearly visible.
It wasn't that I had to know more or more deeply than others, nor was it that I had to be so affectionate that I could talk for hours.
It's exactly the same as the meaning of the word in the Korean dictionary.
'The process of figuring out what direction you want to go in is itself a taste.'
--- From Chapter 2, "In the Direction My Heart Desires"

I mostly write in dot notes.
When I filled it with text, it was more readable than lined or grid notebooks.
Most of the transcriptions are done after I finish reading the book.
The reason is that I want to write after understanding the flow of a book.
After reading a book and listening carefully to what the author is trying to say, I write it down by summarizing the important points and adding my own thoughts.
While reading a book, I keep an index on pages where I can relate to parts I want to remember, or sentences I want to quote someday.
And because it is realistically difficult to transcribe every sentence with an index, I set the volume to not exceed two double-page notebook pages per book.
I found it helpful to set a time limit so that I could practice picking out sentences that I thought were important.
--- From Chapter 2, “What Happens When You Copy Good Sentences”

Although quite some time has passed, I still think it was thanks to Mirae Diary that I was able to achieve my dream of completing the Great National March.
It was a valuable experience that made me realize that the experience of imagining and recording vague thoughts in concrete terms can bring them closer to reality.
Since then, whenever I have a strong dream or a goal I want to achieve, I have developed the habit of writing a future diary.
When you write a future diary, sometimes it comes true, and sometimes it goes beyond that.
Of course, there are times when things don't work out, but the moment I write in my diary, my heart races and I gain the courage to start anything.
I want to believe in the potential within me that hasn't yet blossomed, and I also feel grateful for things that haven't happened yet.
So I can't help but write it.

--- From Chapter 3, "How to Make Your Dreams Real"