Journals and Logs
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Did You Know That Keeping A Journal Can Change Your Life!?
Keeping a journal will absolutely change your life in ways you’ve never imagined.
Why is it so important to keep a journal?
Here are just a few of the benefits a personal journal will provide you:
* A journal will remind you of your goals and the actions you are taking towards them every day. You are writing down your goals?
* It allows you to factually track your progress as you head closer towards your goals. Here is an example. Suppose you had set a new goal to lose 20 lbs in the next 3 months. Record your weight in your journal each day, you will now be able to see trends in your weight loss that you would not have seen without the journal.
* It provides detailed information such as dietary changes, calorie reductions, fat reduction, and so much more.
* It helps build your self-esteem because you are reaffirming the positive benefits you are achieving as you get closer to your goals.
* It helps to paint the picture every day of who you are becoming.
* When you see positive results as they happen, you will become energized with optimism.
Here are a couple of simple journal tips:
Keep a simple, short log, it’s easy, and it usually only takes 1 minute of your time. Each day, make short entries into your journal, list such things as your attitude, emotions, diet, weight, responses to situations and conditions in your life.
For example, if having a healthy heart is one of your goals, you will want to keep track of your cholesterol levels, your blood pressure, your weight. (Obviously, all of this data would not be recorded daily, but some entry would be recorded each day)
Try This Simple Journaling Exercise
Get out a note pad or a sheet of paper and a pencil. Look at your watch. When the second hand hits 12, start timing yourself as you write down the following information:
Fri.- Felt great all day. Weight 135 pounds. Walked briskly for 20 minutes. Had healthy almonds and
nuts for snacks.
More than likely, you completed writing down the information in approximately 1 minute. Yet, in that 1 minute, you created an important snapshot of important data in your life. You now have historical data you can refer to as time goes by. You may use the information to help you track your progress as you move towards your life goals.
You can see how well this works.
Keep a simple, yet informative log of every day of your life. Write as often as you can. Tell yourself exactly how you felt on Wed., July 25, 2015, or any day since. You will be able to look back and see how you reacted to issues in life. You may find it a lot easier to adjust your plans when trying to reach a goal. See which actions worked best and how you may add to those plans to gain even more success. Analyze how you overcame challenges as you faced them. What negative or stressful events were you able to solve or eliminate from your life?
Your Journal Will Help Reach Goals
It generally takes less than two minutes to record the log for any day. It is a habit that should become a part of life. When you write down your goals, it becomes easier to reach them. It will become second nature and very easy to do. If you have a computer, I recommend typing just three to four lines of descriptive text into a word document, file, or calendar each day. You will begin to see your results.
Keeping A Journal Can Change Your Life!
You will find optimism and success in your goals easier to reach every day!
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