The best way of reaching your ultimate goal is by breaking it into manageable daily goals and taking the necessary steps each day to meet them. Perhaps you recognize the importance of setting daily and weekly goals but are failing to meet your targets. Most people are and the main reason for this is that you are failing to distinguish between what’s important and needs immediate attention from what’s urgent but not as important. Getting your priorities straight means understanding what can wait as well as what’s important and can’t be set aside for anything else. It means knowing your most important tasks and putting them first. 

Writing has always been a popular tool for self-expression. It translates what our minds produce into tangible records, either on paper or on a digital platform. Writing your thoughts and plans is a good way of ensuring you do not lose the record of your mental expressions. If ever there was an effective method of recording your vision, goals, and dreams, it is journaling.

Journaling is a practice that has been going on for decades. People have used it over the years for different reasons including keeping a record of their ideas, trying to cope with difficult situations and deal with their emotions. There are many more benefits to journaling than some people realize. Right now you might be asking yourself whether it is necessary to journal daily and where the content will come from. As you make this a habit, you will realize that there is always something worth writing down. As mentioned above, there are so many reasons why this practice has remained relevant and useful even with so much changing around us. Why journal daily? Journaling is a way to reflect on your life and what's happening. Keeping a journal can help you understand yourself, your thoughts, and feelings. It might not seem like much, but it's an important step in the process of healing and self-discovery.

When you write down things in your mind, you concentrate on a specific thought, you wade into that chaotic mess in order to find that golden needle in a proverbial haystack. From that chaos, you select that one lucid thought that reveals who you really are at the core. Putting things down in a coherent way helps you still the mind and reach through the murk and tumult to the calmness within. This helps with mindfulness, a way to deeper enlightenment. When you think about your career, what do you think about? Do you sit down and think about the day to day aspects, or do you sit down and think about your life as a whole? When you do sit down to think about your career, what do you actually think about? Do you think about all those things that you would like to do with your career?

Growing up many of us were encouraged to keep a journal, we might not have been aware of the benefits it came with but we did it all the same. Writing your thoughts in your little book of secrets seemed so mysterious and exciting until we grew out of it. With the everyday jostle and a busy schedule, sometimes it becomes hard for one to consider writing in a journal. Just like how we become so pumped up at the beginning of the year, we see the need to document our resolutions and how the previous year went, it should continue like that throughout the year. The reason why many of our resolutions are never realized is how we choose not to make a habit of journaling. One might be wondering why they should keep a journal as it might seem trivial. There are many benefits to keeping a journal, it has been seen to be a great way of reducing stress and anxiety in turn improving a person`s mood. People who keep journals have better mental health and even physical health as the immune system is boosted. It helps you to organize, clarify, and articulate your thoughts. You develop better self-knowledge and problem-solving skills.

For many of us, its easy to forget the many ways we make our lives more stressful each day. But when we stop and take some time to reflect on our experiences, we can gain greater clarity and find new insights into how to be happier, healthier and less stressed. One of the best ways to make this happen is to journal about our work-related experiences each day. Journaling can give you a huge amount of clarity in your life. Whether you are a student, a professional, an entrepreneur or just someone who wishes to take time off to pursue your dreams, it can help you improve your career, relationship or even your finances. 

Freeform writing is a form of therapy that you can engage in to express your emotions without attracting anyone’s attention like in the above-mentioned methods. All you need is yourself, paper and pen. You may need to be alone so that you aren’t disturbed as you allow yourself to ‘flow’ into that piece of paper, writing down every thought as it comes into your mind. You don’t have to care for spelling, punctuation, or even making sense, only write down whatever you think or feel in that particular instance.

Writing down what you could be thinking about, better known as journaling, is the best way to track your everyday life. It’s a daily exercise about figuring out what makes your life tick and happy or upset.  Things become more real when written down on paper. You can write about your motivations, struggles, things that you are apologetic about, your plans for a better life, things that you have achieved, and what you are grateful for. In addition, you can also have a written record of your thoughts and feelings, your desires, your dreams, unraveling problematic relationships, adventures, and the things you are proud of.  A journal can be unsophisticated or very complicated, either way, they will be appreciated by you in the future. Here are some of the ways of leveraging on journaling in your everyday life. 

Journaling gives you the power to master your emotions, track your thought patterns, get rid of bad habits, and understand what needs to be changed in your life. It is also a great way of understanding yourself and makes it easier for you to trace as well as eliminate negative thoughts or emotions that harm your work. Journaling makes it easier for you to recognize some of the things that prevent you from reaching your daily goals and enables you to avoid them. It improves your productivity levels by helping you better understand where you went wrong, what you should have done, and what you mustn’t do if you are to remain productive throughout the day. That is why successful people recommend you start journaling or continue doing so if you have already begun.

A trail of memories, one so precious it follows behind you reminding you of who you were yesterday. Just like a picture, a memory frozen in time at times can guide your steps.  Journaling entails a picture drawn so vividly with your thoughts and words. It is thinking aloud, projecting the conversations in our head in an organized manner to map our path forward. Journals are tools for mindfulness. Keeping a journal creates an opportunity for one to channel their inner selves, to converse with oneself, and get a clear picture of what is within. It allows you a chance to get to know more about yourself. Just like when we get to have dates with people we are trying to get to know, journaling can be equated to going on a date with yourself. Wrapping the different facets that make you who you are. It is meant to be a collection of your ideas, observations, and even to record anything of importance you wish to get back to at a later day. Day after day we find our perception of life, our thoughts, and even our beliefs evolving and we need to keep these on the record as they show us how much we have grown.