There is INFINITE value in writing timelines of events in your life…
I recently wrote out a timeline about a personal interest, just a little hobby thing I’m into, and the insights this gave me about a seemingly-unrelated, and previously unexamined, set of beliefs & archetypes was priceless.
So I immediately took a leap of faith and have an action plan for this one area, just some personal stuff about my self-concept, which crosses over into magick, and more. 
Suggestions, based on what’s helped me:
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timeline of your magick, dating to first supernatural/psychic/unexplained phenomena, if you started after early childhood. Might be best in a computer document, because you’ll keep remembering things and needing to backtrack and update the early parts
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and if you started IN childhood, a timeline is also useful, and maybe do another one asking, at any stage, what were your archetypes? how did early concepts of self, desire (for others, sexual and otherwise) and desire for your own adulthood influence your practice and goals today? is there any incongruence that may be holding you back?
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timeline of a hobby or interest, outside magick, to see what else that may say about you. This one paid off bigly for me!
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timeline of how you handled real problems, what tools in your toolkit are you overly reliant upon, what methods worked, and (as valuable to know) which tools failed for you in the past. This may yield some surprising insights…
Random pretty picture? Maybe, Whoever planned this for us to enjoy understood time, growth, change, evolution, and balance. Maybe nothing is ever truly random?
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” 