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