What is Journaling & its Need
How to Use Achievers Journal
Let us first understand Gratitude
Gratitude is Simply pausing to notice and appreciate the things that we often take granted. this things can be a person or an object sometimes, feelings of gratitude happens automatically, like for example: I am lucky to have such supporting parents or affluent family, or Car, Bike etc.
Start Small: We need to create the feeling of gratitude by deliberately counting our blessing. This can be for a person or a thing
Time: Putting time into your schedule for gratitude, you can peak your time in the morning or at night before bed.
Get Specific: I am grateful to my partner. No, Try to be more detailed & specific then just writing it down for sake of duty.Be specific for example: I am grateful to my partner because she said something nice about my work & attitude or perhaps: I am grateful to my bike because it's comfortable and I love riding my bike
Understanding Affirmation
- "I will be unable to do this job; I'm just not smart enough."
- "They will never hire me; I'm not good enough."
- "I'll never find a boyfriend / girlfriend; I'm too ugly or fat"
- Above are some examples of negative thoughts.
some of us might be repeating such negative thoughts in our minds. Research has likewise demonstrated that for most individuals 80% of those thoughts are negative and this 80% figure of damaging thoughts, It gets worse. Whatever you're thinking about, 90% gets carried forward to the next day’s 51,000 thoughts.
This is why it is so important to “affirm”
The problem with negative thoughts is they can become self-fulfilling prophecy. We talk ourselves into believing we're not good enough and, as a result these thoughts slowly drag down our personal lives, our relationships, and our careers.
Affirmations are our way to “change the channel” on those negative
But, if we deliberately do the opposite and use positive thoughts about ourselves, the effect can be powerful but far more helpful. You will be able to watch your thought on a daily basis and introspect the negative thoughts you were thinking and change it with the positive or the neutral ones.
Start Small:
All habits work in similar way. We need to understand that writing gratitude and affirmation will also be a part of building healthy habit and we will be taking baby steps
Time:
Putting time into your schedule for affirmation together with gratitude, you can peak your time in the morning or at night before bed.
Get Specific:
For Example: you want to loose weight, your affirmation might say something like: I am 100% committed to going to the gym 4-5 days a week and running on the treadmill for a minimum of a 15 min.
For a sales person it should sound like: I am committed to make 20 client calls every day. The more specific your actions are the better,
Include frequency(how often), quantity(how many) and also the exact time of the day you will begin the activity and end the activity.
A final thing to consider
Reading this article or any book is an affirmation to yourself, anything you read influences your thoughts. when you consistently read positive self-improvement books and articles, you are programming your mind with the thoughts and beliefs that will support you in creating success.
Night Recap:
Method of filling the night recap is simply the activities performed by you in a day. Night recap is provided to have a peace of mind on your efforts for the day. That some days can be off days and you don’t need to worry.
Top 3 task:
We have removed the to do list from the planner and instead replaced it with top 3 task of the day. Place your task in a priority and place you top 3 task in the time schedule provided for the day. Start small by doing a single task at a time.
Day schedule: The Time line is provided from 5 am in the morning to 10 pm night, you need to allocate your top tasks in the timeline and stick to the plan. You need to Judge you day on this single parameter that,
"Did you do what you said you going to do, as long as you said without distraction”
Exercise: No perfect day is without a session of exercise or meditation you can plan min 3 day in a week for exercise .