This book is chock full of techniques for creatively exploring your life and times in Personal Journals as well as Personal Portfolios. This process will help you express who you are as you examine your interests, passions, challenges, and the changes you have gone through. Exercises cover many different areas including: - Left brain (word-based) and right brained (doodling, charting, drawing) - Using a journal to improve physical and emotional wellness - Exploring relationships - Career, midlife, and retirement transitions - Coping with workplace re-structuring, workaholism, and learning leisure wellness - Finding humor and using creative problem solving in a journal - Deepening your commitment to community involvement and service - Affirming your spiritual side - Digital Options: Online, personal digital assistants, and desktop publishing - Documenting personal studies for possible credit - Design and construction techniques for portfolios