Journal Your Way To Success

It's never too late to start a business, career, life or relationship journal. You would be amazed at the results it can help you achieve.

For some people the holidays linger on well into the next year. They relive the parties, football games, and on and on and on – for weeks. They made New Year’s Resolutions that didn’t survive the weekend. They made promises and commitments to family, friends and others that are long forgotten. They spent several lazy days making excuses and avoiding anything like self-evaluation, introspection or analysis. Well friends, the new year is upon us. No one needs to tell you that it is 1999, one year away from what none of us will ever again witness in out lifetime – the changing of a century.

It is time to get started. It is time to begin in earnest what you didn’t accomplish in 1998. So let’s start the year with a journal. There are a number of outstanding reasons to keep a journal. Let’s list a few of them. I love lists. They are easy to write, take up lots of space and they make me think. Hopefully they stimulate your thoughts as well. A journal can:

1. Help you avoid drastic errors in judgment.
2. Increase your effectiveness.
3. Improve your income.
4. Help you learn from your failures.
5. Improve your relationships.
6. Help you achieve your goals.
7. Keep you headed in the right direction.
8. Improve your lifestyle.
9. Help you learn from others.
10. Help you find peace and happiness.
11. Save you time.
12. Reduce your stress.
13. Help you have more fun.
14. Capture valuable memories.
15. Guarantee a worthwhile life filled with harmony, peace and joy.

If this isn’t enough to get you to consider starting and keeping a personal success journal I don’t know what will. I can only tell you from personal experience that keeping a record of my insights, thoughts, ideas, successes, mistakes, errors, achievements and failures and their causes has done more for my career than any other single activity.

What have you got to lose. It takes less than 10 minutes a day to capture all of those important little day by day events, feelings and activities and their consequences that when re-visited on a regular basis can have a galvanizing impact on your career, relationships and life.

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Tim Connor, CSP is an internationally renowned sales, management and leadership speaker, trainer and best selling author. Since 1981 he has given over 3500 presentations in 21 countries on a variety of sales, management, leadership and relationship topics. He is the best selling author of over 60 books including; Soft Sell, That’s Life, Peace Of Mind, 91 Challenges Managers Face Today and Your First Year In Sales. He can be reached at tim@timconnor.com, 704-895-1230 or visit his website at www.timconnor.com.

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