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my journal

Keeping a journal is said to be a powerful tool for your personal growth and development. If you keep a journal it can help you clarify your thoughts, set personal goals, and track progress against such goals. You can also use a journal to reflect on your behaviors and experiences.

Some tips and ideas to use in your own journal include:

Write Down Your Goals

Writing down your goals is thought to help make them happen. It acts as a powerful way to make them more concrete and increase your chances overall of achieving them. Be specific about what you want to achieve and the steps you need to take to get there. Write about your progress and make sure to celebrate your wins along the way.

Keep A Daily Log

I like to do this if nothing more than as a reminder that I can look back on in future days to remind me of times gone by. Write about things that you did or ate, places you visited, and any other experiences throughout the day. Think about things that you are grateful for and jot them down in your journal too. What challenges do you face and what lessons have you learned? This can help you stay present and mindful, and provide a record of your growth and progress over time. That said, don’t beat yourself up if you miss a day or two, you don’t want journalling to be a chore. I keep my daily journal online on this website, although as you will notice I am occasionally too consumed with work or other projects and therefore occasionally miss a day or two (or more🙄)

Journal Your Problems

Use your journal to work through difficult decisions or challenges you are facing, these could be either at home or at work. Write about your options and then weigh up the pros and cons.  Explore your feelings and thoughts. This can help you gain clarity and perspective, and find solutions to your problems.

Express Your Creativity

Use your journal as a means to express your creativity and explore any ideas that you may have. Maybe poetry, or drawings, or simply brainstorm new projects. This can help you tap into your imagination and find new inspiration.

Reflect On Your Experience

Use your journal to reflect on your experiences and learn from them. What you have learned and what mistakes have you made? Are there any insights or learnings to be gained for the future? This can help you grow and develop as a person, and avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future.

Practice Gratitude 

What are you grateful for? Write them down in your journal. Expressing gratitude is meant to cultivate a positive mindset and enable you to focus on all the good and positive things that are in your life. It can also help you appreciate the people and experiences that bring you joy and fulfillment.

Set Intentions

Use your journal to set intentions for your day, week, or even month or year. Write about what you want to accomplish, how you want to feel, and what you want to focus on. This can help you stay motivated and focused on your goals.

Log What You Want To Make Happen

Be very intentional about what you want to make happen. Decide what you want. Set yourself a challenge and write a new story. Declare what it is you want to make happen.

e.g.

  • “I’m going to go on an adventure to see what’s possible.”
  • “I’m going to open myself up to building the business of my dreams and creating the success that I want.”
  • “I’m here for more success, more joy, more abundance, more freedom, more peace.
  • “I’m here to make more impact, to be of the highest service, and to share my ideas, knowledge & experiences with the world”
  • “I’m ready for the world to see more, To shine my light”

What do you want? Sign and date it

Want To Keep A Journal? Here’s Some Journal Prompts

Write about your journey. What’s happening, the progress that you are making, the challenges that you are facing, and the things that you are grateful for. Acknowledge the wins.

Document the people who have helped you, and the tools and resources that have helped you. The lessons that you are learning and the tips you have to share.

Document the names of your first subscriber, follower, customer, and then also the 100th.

Write down your goals over and over again. Pour your heart, soul, sweat, and tears into your journal.

In your journal, get really clear on what you want, and then set yourself a fun challenge. Look at it as an adventure, then take tiny steps in the right direction. Because success is a set of tiny, messy, imperfect steps that you take over and over again.

One example step would be to start to build an email list – follow someone else’s blueprint.

Write down what your next step is in your journal and then take action.

Decide who you need to be. How would the person I’d like to be, do the things I’m about to do? E.g. you want to be International Sales Person of the Year. If you were already in that position then you wouldn’t be turning up to work in scruffy clothes. You’d be organized. Show up as if you already were that person.

Write in your journal why 12 months from now you didn’t achieve your goals, now go and do the exact opposite to make the goals happen.

Conclusion

In conclusion, keeping a journal is a powerful tool for personal growth and development. It can help you clarify your thoughts, set goals, track progress, and reflect on your experiences. Use these tips and ideas to create a journaling practice that works for you, and watch as it transforms your life.

References:

https://debrasmouse.com/keeping-a-journal-helps-you-create-a-life-you-love/
https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/healtharticle.7-benefits-of-keeping-a-journal
https://www.becomingminimalist.com/reasons-to-journal/
https://dayoneapp.com/blog/journaling-benefits/
https://www.betterup.com/blog/how-to-start-journaling
https://www.deanbokhari.com/journaling-ideas/

Plus my notes from the Own Your Own Future Course by Dean Grasiozi and Tony Robbins

my goals

Thinking About My Goals

What three goals would you want to achieve in the next 6 to 12 months? For me, I think that my goals would be to:

  1. To make my free mini leagues app number one on Google.
  2. To get down to 224 pounds in weight within 6 months
  3. To make this website leadership and development profitable

Why are these goals a must?

Starting in reverse order:

I need to make this website leadership and development profitable because at the moment it is simply a liability that is costing me money in terms of time, hosting costs, and domain charges.

I need to get down to 224 pounds for the goodness of my health and to potentially improve my ability at my favourite sport UK Racketball

Free mini leagues would be a promotion for my squash booking system which could also end up bringing in more revenue. I would use this as the start of my sales funnel. Been reading lots about sales funnels from the fascinating Russel Brunson.

Below is the fascinating video of him making over $3 million dollars in an hour and a half with a live sale of his click funnels software…

My Goals On Hold

I recently had a goal to turn our failed puborder app into a takeaway ordering system, Speedytakeaway could bring in more revenue by charging customers a small order fee of between 25p and 50p. However, I’ve recently heard that the fish and chip shop that was going to try it for me isn’t as enthusiastic as I first thought. ☹️

So think I will put this one on the back burner for now!

Questioning Myself When Thinking About My Goals

What’s kept you from changing in the past? Not being focused enough on my core goals

What needs to change now? Need to start making definite steps towards progressing my goals.

What are 1 or 2 actionable steps that will immediately move you forward?

Mini Leagues – Take notes from the current Google number one position.

Weight – Cut out carbs from my diet

Leadership and Development – Add more posts like this one!

SpeedyTakeaway – launch a promotional website. 

Some More Of My Goals To Consider

  1. Increase my monthly revenue from trading shares

Affirmations

Some affirmations for my goals that I will also use as part of my core morning routine:

AFFIRMATIONS:  I now have two… 1) Define the result 2) Why? 3) What actions

  1. To be number one on Google for the search term “Free Mini Leagues”. I will use this traffic as a feed to the top of my sales funnel for getting new PlanIt-BookIt customers. I am committed to making the PlanItBookIt website the best in class and to making it work as a sales funnel as per all the guidelines that I have learned from reading books from Russell Brunson. I may also need to grow my community through Facebook and social media connections, possibly contacting clubs directly with my mini-league lead magnet. In order for PlanIt-BookIt to be best in class and capture the Padel and other doubles court-based activities I also need to ensure that up to four people can be booked on the system per court.
  2. To ensure that I lose 21 pounds and get down to 224 pounds so that I look and feel better I am 100 percent committed to eating in an eight-hour window, avoiding carbohydrates, and playing squash or racquetball 3 to 4 times a week.
  3. To earn enough monthly revenue from this website for it to be able to cover the hosting costs and my time building it. I will do this by posting articles and my efforts on it daily to build up traffic.
 
take action and create your own destiny

Create your own destiny by following some of the notes that I took from the Own Your Own Future course by Dean Graziosi and Tony Robbins:

A Set Of Action Ideas To Help You Create Your Own Destiny

  • You’re responsible for yourself, so take action
  • Don’t complain, make things better.
  • Picture your end day, what did you want to achieve? 3 things personally, 3 things professionally. 
  • First, you create habits, and then habits create you.
  • When learning use spaced repetition to help enforce what you have learned.
  • Read regularly, how can you apply it?
  • Schedule your time and your learning
  • Instruct, try, and teach what you learn – helps to learn with intention.
  • Make things a must instead of a should
  • Have a clear vision of where you want to be
  • Being normal is boring try and be freaky or creative
  • The 3 C’s are Coaching, Consistency and Community
  • When taking notes from a course or book split your page into two columns, on the left column take your notes, but on the right-hand side try and think of ways you could apply those notes to your own life, projects, or challenges.
  • What and why is more important than how
  • Where focus goes energy flows
  • Write down a limiting belief and then write a new empowering story to replace it: I’m not comfortable selling my products TO: My products are excellent and I need to tell as many people as possible so that they can get all the great value from them.
  • Big journeys begin with a single step.
  • Don’t live in the past
  • Don’t try and please everyone.
  • Where are you now and where do you want to get to? What is your purpose? Your impact? Doing what?
  • Do fewer things that take your confidence and more things that build your confidence.
    e.g. don’t watch the news, it’s negative
  • Self-education is the answer, get great by trial and error
  • Human emotion is the most important thing, learn to direct it.
  • You will never be ready, so if you say you can’t do this then act upon it immediately. Do the uncomfortable even if you say you can’t
  • Focus on where you want to go, not what you’re afraid of
  • Everything is about increasing your probabilities
  • Get uncomfortable, and put yourself on the line.
  • Schedule what you need to do.
  • Whatever moves the needle most in your wider niche, then start there
  • I’m going to show you how to…
  • Here are the seven steps…
  • Decide what you want and then make it your reality
  • Ignore imposter syndrome, i.e. who wants to listen to me
  • 10 years from now you will surely arrive, the question is where
  • “Succesful people hang on when everyone else has let go.”
  • “The biggest regret people have is not changing what they still have the opportunity to change” – Krista Mashore
  • “I will persist until I succeed” – Possibly a quote by Og Mandino – If you persist then you will eventually reach your goal, try and follow someone else who is doing it well.

Some Motivational Advice From Tony Robbins

Pillar 1: Get laser-focused on what you want and when you want it – “Where focus goes, energy flows” Clarity is power. The purpose of what you want is the most important as that’s where the drive is.

Pillar 2: Follow a proven path, tools, map, or coaching

Pillar 3: Eliminate inner conflicts

niche ideas

First Thoughts

Ok, so first I thought I might try and create a list of niche ideas or possible topics that I have knowledge, skills, or interest in that I might be able to create a website, course or product about at some later time. 

Think About

What problem you can solve for others? What are you good at? Who’s dream could you expedite? What do you love to talk about? What is fun for you? What do you like to talk about even if no one is paying you? What is so easy for you? What do people ask for advice on? Do people spend money in that category?

 

It’s About

  • Find your triangle of genius
  • Know your bullseye, and gain confidence by niching down as small as you can go.
  • What do you already do or know that people come to you for? For me, that would be computer advice.
  • Think of something that you are excited about and want to share with the world.
  • Out of the talents and skills that you have and enjoy, what do people need? Who could you help specifically that you know?

 

 My Possible List Of Niche Ideas

  1. Beginner guide to programming 
  2. How to trade on the stock markets
  3. Object-oriented programming
  4. How to play squash better
  5. Creating applications
  6. Help with relocating to Canada
  7. How to play racketball better
  8. How to lead or manage people
  9. How to be more creative or innovative
  10. Understanding crypto
  11. How to lose weight without calorie counting
  12. Lean / Six Sigma
  13. Project Management
  14. How to trade crypto coins
  15. Coping with an aplastic anaemia
  16. How to do online marketing
  17. Creating a life journal that helps people achieve their life goals, use the book my son had as an example
  18. How to not lose so much Gambling 
  19. How to build and maintain a WordPress website

 

My Passions

Drill it down by thinking more about your passions. So let’s try and list my possible passions, which I think may have changed a little over the years, and comment out loud on each one…

  • Self-development – love reading about this, but is it a passion? It’s possibly not something that I could talk passionately about
  • Motivating – I like reading about motivation and I feel I could be pretty good at motivating others
  • Racketball/Squash – My knees won’t cope with squash anymore, but I love Racketball which has now replaced squash for me and I already have a court booking system that makes a small amount of monthly income. This could definitely be something that I revisit.
  • Marketing – I have had quite an interest in this too as I have attempted to learn more in order to better push my software-as-a-service products.
  • Trading shares/crypto. I am quite interested in this, but was it out of necessity in order to earn some more money from our savings? Possibly not something that I would want to sell a product related to it
  • Telling funny stories. I like telling my funny life stories in front of people usually after a few drinks. I enjoy this and often make people laugh with them, but I’m not sure where I would make money from it without writing an autobiography, and given my lack of fame that might be quite a hard sell.
  • Coding/App creation – This is possibly my best starting point as I have a number of SAAS (Software As A Service) application products that I need to sell more of..

 

My Existing SAAS Products 

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