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Don’t always expect to get direct solutions. Sometimes it will be encouragement or support. You might be told to trust or to keep doing what you’re doing.
4. Also journal your goals, both short and long term, and use the pages to flesh them out. What is the next step? How will you accomplish it? What is the deadline for the next step?
Once you begin this process, you’ll find that journaling will come naturally. It’s like “catching things” that are already in the atmosphere. You just become more aware of them.
Sometimes I’ll receive inspiration or direction while I’m driving or while I’m busy working on a project. Trust that you’ll be able to retain whatever it is and just write it down as soon as you can. Although I have to admit, I’ve gotten inspiration and direction while I was in the shower before and I did jump out to write it down!
Journaling is a place to sort out your fears, your desires, your goals, and your ideas. It’s a place to make commitments (and be honest when you break them). It’s a place to record success and failure, because you’ll be using this compiled information to track patterns, to understand how you operate under pressure, to recognize attitudes and mindsets that need to change, and best of all, it’s a place to receive solutions and responses to your questions.
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