A warm welcome to my journal. I’ve read about how good journaling is on numerous occasions and yet I’ve never actually created one. So, I thought, what better than to start my own personal journal and publish it for all to see on my leadership-and-development website?
I got the motivation to start a journal by beginning to read The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM and I’m only about a third into the book, so will include some of my learnings from the book in the journal.
So far though, I’m really liking what I’m reading and have already been getting up pretty early to start my new morning routine.
I think the best way to do this journal will probably be to create a new post for each day that I journal. As I learn more about the journaling process and how best to do it, I would expect for the entries to improve or at least begin to show some consistency or follow some form of standards as the days go by.
Ok, here we go…
My Journal Entry For 20th June 2024
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Oh dear, I’m still not doing well keeping up with my journal. Here’s an entry for today though. Big day to day as I’m a big football (soccer) fan and my team England plays Denmark later in the day. My Morning routine seems to have gone by the wayside […]
My Journal Entry For October 6th, 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and IdeasWell, it’s been a while again. I keep getting sidetracked with other things. I really need to get more disciplined with this journal.Feel really rough today as had our monthly business strategy meeting yesterday, which is actually just an excuse for a bit of a piss-up in York. So […]
My Journal Entry For August 27th, 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Feeling much better today due to much less alcohol last night. Partly completed my morning routine. My son Jack is still at around month 9 post-transplant and all is still looking good for him 🤞. Today I made myself a coffee and then made notes from an EdEx […]
My Journal Entry For August 26th, 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and IdeasI obviously drank too much red wine last night as I woke up this morning feeling pretty rough. The morning routine was therefore knocked on the head once again!My son Jack is still at around month 9 post-transplant and all is still looking good for him 🤞.Today mainly consisted […]
My Journal Entry For August 25th, 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas So, I woke up ridiculously early this morning, at around 5 a.m. I didn’t do much of my morning routine. I did however get some early morning tasks ticked off. My son Jack is still at around month 9 post-transplant and all is still looking good for him […]
My Journal Entry For August 24th, 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Oh my gosh, it’s been a while, my last journal entry was at the end of August. I still have kind of a morning routine but I definitely need to get more structured once again. I think my wife and I have been partying a little too much […]
My Journal Entry For January 30th, 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas I got up fine this morning, the problem was that my son didn’t get up. He’s getting very demoralized with homeschooling – it’s not working for him. I completed some of my morning routine. Today is day 68 post bone marrow transplant for my son. 🤞 Today’s picture […]
My Journal Entry For January 28th, 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up late and hardly completed any of my morning routine. Today is day 66 post bone marrow transplant for my son. 🤞 Today’s picture is of some excellent ribs I had on my ski holiday the other week. Today has been a bit of a right off […]
My Daily Journal Entry For January 26th, 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up at a kind of normal time for me, around 8:30 am, and completed my morning routine. Today is day 64 post bone marrow transplant for my son, and he’s doing well with everything except homeschooling. 🤞 Today’s picture is of a special fried rice I made, […]
My Daily Journal Entry For January 25th, 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up very early for me today and completed the bulk of my morning routine. I’ve missed quite a few days I know! I went on a skiing trip to Sallbach in Austria, only to find that my knees are so weak from years of playing squash and […]
My Daily Journal For January 12th 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up too early as was my job to get our teenage son out of bed. He is incapable of getting himself up! Then completed my morning routine. Today is day 50 post bone marrow transplant for my son, and all is still good! 🤞. Today’s picture is […]
My Daily Journal For January 11th, 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Ok, I’m probably cheating a little by calling this a daily journal as I have missed the last few days. I decided to have a bit of an easy, lazy weekend. Got up around 8:30 am, slept just Ok, and then completed my morning routine. Today is day […]
My Daily Journal Entry For January 9th 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Ok, I’m probably cheating a little by calling this a daily journal as I have missed the last few days. I decided to have a bit of an easy, lazy weekend. Got up around 8:30 am, slept just Ok, and then completed my morning routine. Today is day […]
My Daily Journal Entry For Jan 5th, 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up around 8:30 am, after a great night’s sleep, I was awake once, but managed to get back to sleep. I completed my morning routine. Today is day 43 post bone marrow transplant for my son, and all is still good! 🤞. I’m having problems with my […]
My Daily Journal Entry For January 4th, 2023
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Well, after a short break for Christmas and New Year, I’m back with my daily journal entries. I got up very late this morning as I spent most of the evening arguing with my teenage son trying to get him to go to bed. When I eventually got […]
My Daily Journal Entry For December 24th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up a little late and completed my morning routine. My brother contacted me to say he’d caught a cold, which means Christmas at my brother’s is canceled tomorrow as my son hasn’t enough lymphocytes in his blood to fight off a virus yet. Decided to cook some […]
My Daily Journal Entry For December 23rd, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up early as was expecting our new integrated replacement fridge to be delivered. Only partially completed my morning routine. Had to spend most of the morning emptying the fridge so that it was ready to be replaced. The new fridge arrived but apparently, I also need to […]
My Daily Journal Entry For December 22nd, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up relatively late and completed my morning routine. Today is day 29 post bone marrow transplant for my son, all is still good! 🤞. My wife and I are crawling up the walls having to isolate ourselves while the rest of the world post covid are not, […]
My Daily Journal Entry For December 21st, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up quite late again, I think I need to start going to bed a little earlier. My morning routine had to be stopped in its tracks as I noticed a support request from one of my customers. The survey tool had been reported by someone to be […]
My Daily Journal Entry For December 20th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas I got up pretty late today and completed most of my morning routine. Not had a great day today, if I’m honest, I think all the issues with my son’s health and bone marrow transplant hit me in the face a little today. I’m not usually one to […]
My Daily Journal Entry For December 19th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas I stayed up watching TV until the early hours last night and ended up drinking too much too. Got up and didn’t complete my morning routine. The plan is to have an afternoon nap and do an afternoon routine instead. Today is day 26 post bone marrow transplant for […]
My Daily Journal Entry For December 18th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas My wife’s friend who lives in California must have stayed up late as she called my wife early doors, so got a bit of an early wake-up call. Luckily I managed to fall back asleep and ended up having a bit of a sleep-in! Got up after 10 […]
My Daily Journal For December 17th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up just after 9 am and completed my morning routine. Today is day 24 post bone marrow transplant for my son, and all is still good. Had a pretty good day, did some work on my Objitec business website, and created a blog page for my Mad […]
My Daily Journal Entry For December 16th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up early-ish and completed my morning routine. Today is day 23 post bone marrow transplant for my son, all still seems to be going well. First time back playing Racketball last night after about 6 weeks off due to my son’s illness. I played terribly, lost 5-1, […]
My Journal Entry For December 15th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up early and completed my morning routine. Today is day 22 post bone marrow transplant for my son, and he’s still Ok. My friend Neil came round to my house early doors to help me determine if an integrated fridge that I am intending to buy to […]
My Journal Entry For December 14th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Got up relatively early today and completed my morning routine. Today is day 21 post bone marrow transplant for my son, and all is still relatively Ok. Morocco plays France tonight, should have been England if the ref hadn’t been so blind, yes I am a sore loser! 😂 […]
My Journal Entry For December 13th, 2002
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas All are still at home as a family, no more overnight hospital, touch wood, for now. Got up a little late and completed my morning routine. Didn’t get much chance to get any work done today as we spent all afternoon in the hospital for the latest consultant […]
My Journal Entry For December 12, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas So my whole family slept at home last night, no more teenage cancer ward for us and I hope never again. I got up just after 9 am and completed my morning routine. Today, I paid a friend of mine for a skiing trip in Austria that he has […]
My Journal Entry For December 11, 2002
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas My last night in the hospital last night went to bed late, drank quite a bit while watching England v France get beat by a shocking referee and then I stayed up even later to watch the film Taken with my son, I’d seen it before, but he […]
My Journal Entry For December 10th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Slept well at home, got up, and completed my morning routine. Day 17 for my son post-transplant and his blood numbers are so good that he should be allowed to come home tomorrow! Hooray! Today I got up and made myself some cheese on toast and then […]
My Journal Entry For December 9th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Slept well at home, got up and completed my morning routine. Day 16 for my son post-transplant and his blood numbers are so good that the doctors said he can go for a walk outside today in a private courtyard and that he will highly likely be allowed to […]
My Journal Entry For December 8th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Had a decent nights sleep in hospital last night, although was a bit chilly as my son likes to have a fan on even in the winter. Got up and completed the bulk of my morning routine. Day 15 for my son post-transplant and his numbers are looking […]
My Journal Entry For December 7th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Another night at home, I woke up at silly o’clock for me, around 5:30 am so I started my morning routine, including my Win Hoff breathing exercises, but then decided that I would be absolutely knackered and useless all day if I didn’t try and get some more sleep. […]
My Journal Entry For December 6th,
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Night at home last night with a good nights sleep, got up and completed my morning routine. Day 13 for my son post-transplant and his numbers are still trending! My parents came to visit me at lunchtime with a lovely steak & kidney pie shown in today’s photo. […]
My Journal Entry For December 5th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Stayed in the hospital last night with my son, had a reasonable night’s sleep, got up, and completed most of my morning routine. Day 12 for my son post-transplant and his numbers are trending up which is great news! Endless doctors and nurses and support staff visiting […]
My Journal Entry For December 4th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Stayed at home again last night and had a decent nights sleep, got up at about 8:30 and completed my morning routine. Day 11 for my son post-transplant, The chemo he had has made his hair start to fall out. England are playing a knockout game in the […]
My Daily Journal For December 3rd, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Stayed at home last night so was able to fully complete my morning routine. Leaving the horse bot with some conservative settings for the winter period. Day 10 for my son post-transplant, he’s not had a great day today, hope he feels a bit better tomorrow. 🤞 It’s […]
My Daily Journal For December 2nd, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Another night staying in hospital for me, I slept kind of ok, got up and did most of my morning routine. Did some more exercises in the bathroom. Very small profit on horse bot yesterday. Mainly because the computer I have running it was at home and must have updated […]
My Daily Journal For December 1st, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Slept in the hospital last night, I had a good night’s sleep, however, I woke up far too early. I did manage to complete most of my morning routine though, I even completed some exercises in the bathroom. Big loss on horse bot yesterday, small strategy change geared for […]
My Journal Entry For November 30th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Slept at home again last night and went to bed rather late, maybe 12:30am, but I had a great nights sleep, I think I only got up once in the night. Woke up about 8:45am and completed my morning routine. Small loss again on horse bot yesterday, bring on […]
My Journal Entry For November 29th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Slept at home again last night but I woke up far too early. Managed to complete all of my morning routine. Horse bot has been doing rubbish, so have tinkered a little with it today. Day 6 for my son post transplant and he’s been a little sick today. […]
My Journal Entry For November 28th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Sleeping back at home last night, but went to bed far too late as found an interesting, 5-part, crime drama called Outcry on Sky Crime and stayed up to watch 1 and half episodes of it. Got up rather late and completed my morning routine. Leaving horse bot as […]
My Journal Entry For November 27th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Slept well to say it was in a hospital room with filtered air. Completed a partial my morning routine. Leaving horse bot as is, the smallest profit imaginable yesterday, a few pence. I’m not complaining about a profit though! Day 4 for my son post transplant and so far he’s […]
My Journal Entry For November 26th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas A good nights sleep at home on my own again and got up early-ish and completed my morning routine. Leaving horse bot as is for now, another small loss yesterday. Day 3 for my son post transplant and so far he’s still doing Ok. Another four world cup matches […]
My Journal Entry For November 25th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas I had a pretty good nights sleep, even though I went to bed far too late last night, I think it was about 1:30 am. Got up at 8:45 am and completed my morning routine. Leaving horse bot as is, it doesn’t do very well on the soft ground […]
My Journal Entry For November 24th, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Just an average night’s sleep last night in the hospital, I find the bed Ok, but the room is just far too warm for my liking. Due to being in the hospital I only partially completed my morning routine. The new strategy for the horse bot didn’t work, […]
My Journal Entry For November 23rd, 2022
Morning Routine, General Diary, Thoughts, and Ideas Another great night’s sleep at home got up early and completed my morning routine. AI horse gambling bot had another bad day, so I have adjusted the strategy for today, here’s hoping that it will result in a better day. Had a catch-up call with my friend Dave […]
My Journal Entry For November 22nd, 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary Had a great nights sleep at home last night, got up quite late though and then completed my morning routine. Had a catch up call with my business partner Steve first thing in the morning. Nothing much of importance to discuss though. AI horse gambling made another small loss, I think […]
My Journal Entry For November 21st, 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary Slept back at home today so was able to fully complete my morning routine. Amazon shopping order came first thing. It’s not as good as Tesco was, you don’t really know what they’ve missed out and it’s quite expensive for what you get. Might get my brother to do a Lidl […]
My Journal Entry For 20th November 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary Well to say that I slept on a pull-down bed in the hospital last night I didn’t have too bad a night’s sleep! The only slight problem I had was the room was a little too warm for my liking. The morning routine has gone to pot today, I’ve only done […]
My Journal Entry For 19th November 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary I slept Ok last night, possibly drank a few too many Friday night glasses of Vino, I got up and completed my morning routine. AI horse gambling bot had a terrible day yesterday, was about £9 down by the end of the day, today, so far it’s looking a little better […]
My Journal Entry For 18th November 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary Another night on my own, slept well and completed my morning routine. AI horse gambling bot is having a nightmare so far, after breaking even yesterday. In the morning I got invited to take part in a study that the UK National Health Service is undertaking. Looks like you get a […]
My Journal Entry For 17th November 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary Another night on my own, slept Ok and completed my morning routine. AI horse gambling bot ended up kind of even at the end of the day, neither up nor down. Maybe lost a couple of pence if anything. Spent all afternoon at hospital with my son, who’s now on his […]
My Journal Entry For November 16th, 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary First night on my own last night as the rest of my family are in hospital ☹ Slept well though on my own, woke up around 8am but decided to just relax in bed for half an hour or so. Completed my morning routine. AI horse gambling bot had a slightly profitable […]
My Journal Entry For November 15th, 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary Completed my morning routine, and had an Ok nights sleep. AI horse gambling bot did terrible yesterday, so have made a few tweaks today, hopefully they will pay off. Today is the day that my son moves into his isolation room in hospital. Chemo starts tomorrow, fingers crossed everything will go […]
My Journal Entry For November 14th, 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary Completed my morning routine, and had a great nights sleep last night. AI horse gambling made a small profit yesterday, at least it is still seems to be making a profit each day which is much better than what it was doing a month or so back. Struggled to get my […]
My Journal Entry for 13th November 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary Completed my morning routine, and had a much better night’s sleep last night! Our AI horse gambling bot had a bad day yesterday, we only won a couple of quid all day, I guess some profit is better than a loss though. Don’t think I had much success with our AI […]
My Journal Entry For 12th November 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary Completed my morning routine, wouldn’t say I felt the best though as I had a shocking night’s sleep, can possibly blame the Friday night extra glass of red wine! My wife and I went for a short lunchtime walk down the canal near where we live in Leeds, UK. Then […]
My Journal Entry For 11th November 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary Did My morning routine this morning, although once again didn’t get to affirmations and visualizations, maybe need to get up a little earlier! I had a meeting early doors with my business partner to discuss the EPOS system that a customer has requested. Running three only very slightly modified horse bot […]
My Journal Entry For 10th November 2022
Morning Routine And General Diary I managed to start My morning routine this morning, I got as far as the affirmations. Today was a take our son to hospital day, so most of the day is a write-off. It turned out to be a complete waste of a day too, as they kept us there […]
My Journal Entry For Wednesday 9th November
Morning Routine And General Diary My morning routine didn’t quite go to plan today as I woke up at about 3:30am and therefore decided to publish a change that needed putting live on our booking system product, PlanIt-BookIt. The change was to get people to opt in to getting their scores published on a proper league ranking […]
My Journal Entry For Tuesday 8th November
Morning Routine And General Diary Well, once again I started the day with my new and constantly improving morning routine. Going to try and continue with my Keto diet again today, so hardly any carbs. I lost 1Kg from yesterdays efforts, down from 114KG to 113KG, I need to lost a lot more though! As […]
My Journal Entry For Monday 7th November
Started the day with my morning routine. I’ve made a copy of it and put it in a personal OneNote folder so that I can check off items as I’ve completed them. I’ve also decided to try and do a keto diet this week, I have followed it before and I do tend to lose […]
My Journal Entry For Sunday 6th November
Today has been a relatively productive day. I started the day with my still-in-progress morning routine. I created a rather decent, large Full English breakfast for my wife, son, and me. Then I also created a decent chill for later in our slow cooker. I find the chili recipe on BBC website to be one […]
My Journal Entry For Saturday 5th November
Today was a bit of a blur if I’m honest and I’ve forgotten most of what I did.I did kind of start the day a little with the start of my (in progress) morning routine. One of my many projects is a gambling-AI-bot project of which there are two of them, one of which focuses […]
My Journal Entry For Friday 4th November
Ok, for now, my second journal entry is going to continue with more learnings from my Miracle Mornings book that I am currently reading. The book started explaining the benefits of meditation, which is something that I definitely need to learn more about. Apparently, meditation reduces stress and improves your overall health. It has also […]
My Journal Entry For Thursday 3rd November
Well here we go, this is my first-ever journal entry, and currently, I really don’t know much about journaling so I will probably just use it, for now, to summarize what I’m learning in the Miracle Morning book that I am currently reading and maybe add one or two things as I go about my […]