Journaling is one of the best ways to discover your own potential by channeling your thoughts through the written word. Everyone is full of ideas, dreams, worries, and plans. But those thoughts often go unorganized and drift in and out of your life as distractions rather than achievements. Journaling, especially organized journaling with a planner, is your path to actualizing your thoughts.
With the Best Planner Ever and its companion, the Best Journal Ever, you can see your dreams realized, writing down everything that would normally stay bottled up inside you. Great journaling may start with a brain dump, but it soon turns into actionable plans and inspiring self-discovery.
Channel and Clarify Your Busy Thoughts
Often, your thoughts that have the most potential are busy and distracting, at first. If you are constantly listing things to do and being distracted by conflicting priorities, journaling is a great tool to channel and clarify those thoughts.
Journaling with the Best Planner Ever allows you to turn your jumble of thoughts into a river that flows out onto the page. Every thought becomes separate, something you can read back to yourself, organize, and see the true meaning or importance of.
Clarity often comes as you write, because your mind naturally begins to organize your thoughts into a cohesive narrative or list.
Visualize Your Ideal Future as Achievable Goals
One aspect of journaling is visualization. You may take the time to create a vision board on the Best Planner Ever vision pages or simply write down the vision you have of your own ideal future. Allow your imagination to take you on your dream vacation, to create a vision of your ideal career in five to ten years, or paint a picture of the happiness you are trying every day to work toward.
Visualizing is the first step to making things happen. Just seeing your ideal future in your mind’s eye can help you feel that it is more possible and achievable.
The next step after visualizing is to plan out your dreams as achievable goals, one step at a time. The Best Planner Ever includes special goal pages for each type of dream you might have, with prompts that help you break down your dream into steps you can take every month, week, and every day to get closer to your vision.
Record Your Dreams
Dream journaling is an inspiring way to get to know your subconscious. There is space in the Best Planner Ever for a few freehand notes, and this is a great opportunity to note your dreams as soon as you wake up each morning.
The best way to dream journal is to keep your planner beside your bed or under your pillow with your favorite pen. As soon as you wake, before the dream fades in your mind, write down everything you can remember. You might even remember more as you write.
At the end of each week, go back and read all of your dreams and see what your subconscious has been up to. This is also the best way to get started with lucid dreaming, if that interests you.
Organize Your Worries Into Plans of Action
Do worries keep you up at night? Do they distract you during the day? A worry is just a good plan waiting to happen. With the help of journaling in your Best Planner Ever, you can organize your worries and identify what you can really do to reduce the risk of whatever you’re worried about.
There are many different ways to address your worries. You can improve your routine and set reminders to avoid forgetting things or increase the security system in your home so you feel safe. Journaling can help you see that some worries are silly and help you improve your situation so that other worries don’t bother you anymore.
Celebrate Your Daily Accomplishments
It’s important to celebrate the good moments in each day. We tend to remember negative things more easily, but journaling can emphasize what you have enjoyed and help you congratulate yourself when you have done well at something, big or small. Noting that you had a good conversation with a friend or completed a task with a particular style gives you an opportunity to feel happy and then remember your accomplishments and victories later when you review your journal in the future.
The Best Planner Ever has space on each daily page for special notes that make you feel happy and accomplished.
Discover and Actualize Your Inner Self
Lastly, journaling is a wonderful way to discover your inner self and actualize that hidden part of yourself that is at the core of your being.
You may discover your “voice” through journaling by hearing your own thoughts echoed back to you. You may realize that you love to write, or that you are more organized than you thought. Often, our concept of ourselves is painted by other people and what they have said about us since childhood. But journaling is your chance to get to know yourself and make choices to become more “you” and less of what other people might expect to see.
Actualization is giving yourself permission to like (and dislike) things naturally, to enjoy what you enjoy, distance yourself from what you don’t, and embrace your real talents and personality.
The Best Planner Ever is not just a planner. It’s not just a journal. It’s a system of prompts and inspirational spaces to help you organize your thoughts and achieve on your path to self-discovery.