Journal to Achieve Your Goals

There are so many great ideas out there to help you achieve your goals. The ideas are endless and they’re all great. You have to choose what works best for you. We are all different and what works best for me, may not work for you.

Research has shown over and over, successful people have some kind of ritual that helped them to believe in themselves. Some pray, some do affirmations, and some journal. Whatever it was they believed these rituals helped them to achieve their goals.

One of the rituals I absolutely swear by is journaling. I get most of my ideas through journaling. I always start my journal by listing what I have achieved that day so that I could see what I have accomplished. Then I just ramble about what I’m feeling. Usually it’s something I’m not happy about, or I wished I had done differently, or need to improve.

Then immediately after I assess my feelings or emotions I start to go into tackling problems and ideas start to flow. I come up with all kinds of ideas in how I can improve and make my life better. A lot of times its about creating schedules and times to exercise, study, and plan meals or I need to apologize to so and so. and etc. Sometimes it’s just emotional, and I acknowledge my feelings and deal with it. If I need to make changes in my life to so that I emotionally feel better than I work that out in my journaling.

Our greatest enemy can be our negative thoughts. Journaling and affirmations are great tools to help us exercise positive thoughts. Like our body needs food, our minds need daily exercise of positive. I have read so many books on how our mind produces more negative thoughts than positive. Like exercise for our bodies, we also need to exercise positive thoughts.

I use journaling to attack those negative thoughts by rewriting those negative thoughts into positive ones. Then I use these positive thoughts in my daily affirmations until I don’t need them anymore. If they come back, I have my affirmation stored in my computer.

Journaling allows you to be absolutely free with your thoughts and it is a tool to help you assesses yourself or your day. Did we achieve what we accomplished to set out today? Was I kind to a person today? What do I want to work on so that I am a better person? What did I achieve today? If I’m not happy about something, what choices can I make to improve this?

Once you come up with great ideas to make changes. It’s important you put that in a different form of writing other than your journal, like a contract, calendar, check list etc.. to help you fulfill those changes. Don’t expect perfection. The first step is acknowledgement and the second step is doing something about it. Most importantly, give yourself a pat on the back for your achievements that you accomplished that day.

I hope you all have a wonderful week.

Delphine

Affirmations & Inspirations

After a long break from my blog, I decided to touch base today. I honestly hit a brick wall and was so overwhelmed with my school work I had no time for nothing else. My school work became my focus and priority. I had to set a side many things, including my blog. The stress and workload was overwhelming. There were peiords where I felt many times, I could not do this.

But I wrote an affirmation specifically for myself and read it each day before I began my day. I also followed it with a prayer and that seemed to help me get through these difficult times. I set goals for myself each day and I try as much as possible to follow them. I still need to work hard on time management and using my time more efficiently. Identifying the problem is the first step, which I've done. I just need to continue to work on improving in this area.

When times are tough, which they're most times, I go to youtube, and watch inspirational videos. That always seems to lift my spirits and renew my energy. One video in particular that has touched me is the video about the two guys who raised a Lion, Christian. After a year of raising him they released him to the Wild in South Afarica. When they reunited with him after he was in the wild for a while, it was such an emotional union. I have to be honest and say, I cried. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjWtRYaxmWM&feature=related

I also find this video inspirational. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEqdr_Awdak&NR=1

Since beginning this proram, I have somewhat neglected my loved onces. I know, it was not the smart thing to do. People say, sometimes to get ahead we have to make scrafices. But spending time with our loved ones, should not be one of them. The nurturing we get through their love, is part of who we are. Now that I have more time to work on creating more balance in my life, I'm making an effort to connect more with family.

I have given up a lot since beginning this program and clothes shopping was one of them. In some ways it has been a positive scrafice, because I've saved tone of money. It's great to be back and I hope to commit to writing atleast once a week. I want to thank my followers for being patient with me.

I hope you have a great week.