How To Stay Productive and Engaged This Year
Three Easy To Use Journals
Have you done what you’ve likely done many times before? Set a goal for yourself that you are determined to hit? I have three journal recommendations for the non-journal-er. I have been using the Productivity Planner for years, and most recently I am trying The Five Minute Journal.
I have successfully finished a “One Line Per Day” journal as well. This is a journal that takes 5 years to complete. I explain the advantages of each planner below. At any point in your life, if you are looking to be more organized and present, I recommend one of these easy to adopt lifestyle planners.
Three Daily Journals / Planners to try today:
I have purchases three of these planners. The Productivity Planners is exceptionally great if you are a person who sometimes feels cannot get anything done. It’s a planner where the night before you go to bed, you list out the primary things you want to accommplish the next day.
The tasks listed could be as simple as “make the doctor’s appointment”, or “return that item I ordered online”. It helps you to ensure you are checking off tasks that are weighing on you mentally.
Once you complete the task, you cross it off. It is a daily reminder that you are being productive and are meeting your own expectations for deadlines and moving things forward that you manage daily.
It has been reported that successful people such as Steve Jobs used a very similar system to achieve his goals.
The Five Minute Journal is a new daily routine that I started in the new year. I love this journal. Daily entries into this book help me to be mindful and appreciative for what I have in life and who I am to myself and others.
3) One Line A Day (Canvas Cover) and (Celestial Art)
Fan favorite here. This journal took five years to fill up. It’s extremely straight forward, you write down one think memorable that happened on that day.
The way the pages are structured, you can see everything memorable that happened in years prior on that day. Mine is a mix of happenings relating to family, friends, work, and personal. This is a bit morbid, but I like to think that if I was to unexpectedly die, my kids would have a book they could look at to see how I remembered them and life.
There are many folks who believe in daily journaling to reduce stress. I subscribe to this line of thinking. I have found that I am more clear-headed when I am completing my short, daily, journaling exercises. Try one today and see if it helps you, too.
