I always think about journaling so I can figure things out and have some breakthroughs, but my thoughts are too swirly and incoherent to make any sense written down
that's because you haven't figured it out or had the breakthroughs yet. the reason for starting this is because of the swirling. as you start to just play a simple game of 'what do you know', or even preceding that just 'what do you want to know', you can get the process started