Journaling for achieving your goals [7 day Template]

Incorporating journaling into your daily routine has a wealth of benefits for mental and emotional wellbeing.

Journaling can be conducted in many forms. Your preference may be to journal by hand, typing up your responses or verbalising your responses through voice typing.

This journaling template will be focused on 4 key areas to provide a structured approach to your journaling that you can track and measure over time.

• Schedule
• Automate
• Eliminate
• Celebrate

Schedule: What gets scheduled gets done!

What we give our time to is a key indicator of what we value. To ensure that you are making progress towards your goals, it is important that your schedule reflects and outlines the important tasks and actions that you need to take. Optimising your schedule helps to eliminate decision making and choice from your day.

The art of scheduling your daily activities will optimise your time, build solid routines and habits and ensure that consistent progress is being made towards the goals you want to achieve.

Action: Block out time for what matters most. Embed scheduling whats important and review and refine your schedule regularly!

Evaluate your habits and routines. What works? What needs to change?

Automate: Automate repetitive tasks.

Streamline your tasks, drive efficiency and save time through automation. There are various tools and software available today that can support the automation of repetitive tasks that you conduct regularly.

What repetitive tasks that you do daily, weekly, monthly etc., can you automate?

Reflecting on the tasks that you can automate regularly, will encourage you to think about automation solutions. Thus, freeing up more time for you to focus elsewhere.

Eliminate: What can you eliminate?

What can you eliminate?
What can you delegate?
What meetings or emails can you remove yourself from?
Is there someone else in your team that will be better placed to complete the task/project?

Celebrate your wins!

Celebrating your wins along the way to achieving your goals is a must do! Small daily wins will recharge you and make the journey to your goals an enjoyable one!

What are you proud of?
Where did you excel today? This week? This month?

The benefits of gratitude include increased happiness, improved mental well-being, enhanced relationships, and a greater sense of overall life satisfaction.

What are you grateful for?

Reflecting on these 4 key areas regularly will support you in getting stuff done, moving you closer to your goals!

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