How to keep a success diary

Whatever a person strives for in this life, in any case he wants to achieve success. Success is a different concept for everyone, but its essence is the same when a person is satisfied with the result of his activity. Regardless of what exactly stands at the head of the concept of success, keeping a success diary will help in achieving it.

Why you need a success diary

A success diary can be called a simple notebook or diary in which you write down your daily achievements, compliment yourself and write down the praises of other people. It should be conducted every day, not to be lazy, especially since it usually takes no more than five minutes. It can take a long time to enumerate what exactly the success diary gives, but we will give five main arguments in its direction.

• Reason # 1 is motivation. By setting out your achievements, a positive assessment of yourself on paper, you will be able to observe how you grow daily in your “I”. You will be able to see at what stage of development you are at the moment, whether you have deviated and where to move on. A success diary is a justification for self-pride. You will begin to love yourself even more.
• Reason # 2 is the prevention of depression. People tend to belittle their own dignity, and useful deeds fly out of their heads. After doing something good during the day, you can forget about it in the evening. The illusion is created that nothing useful was done that day. By writing down every useful deed, something good that happened during the day, the feelings of worthlessness will not attack. After all, even in the most boring life, according to the individual, something always happens that you can be proud of and praise yourself for.
• Reason number 3 - increase self confidence... When you can visually contemplate the list of your achievements, you will have the opportunity to look at yourself from the outside and praise your "I" not once again. And when you see how many successes you have already achieved, there will be no reason to doubt your strengths in the future.
• Reason # 4 is self-control. By keeping a success diary, you will be able to keep track of your own achievements, because it is so nice to watch how the number of achievements grows from month to month. You see how you become more active and there will be no more reasons to be lazy.
• Reason # 5 - to accelerate the approach of success. Even dreaming very strongly about something, over time, you can lose your passion. A success diary will allow you to increase your concentration on the process itself and "get sick" with the idea. The head will start thinking about how to move on and what else to do to get one step higher. Thus, your subconscious mind will change its direction towards positive thinking.

How to make a success diary

There are no clear rules on how a success diary is drawn up. Do you like everything beautiful? Create a scrapbooking diary. Do you like brevity and minimalism? Then keep simple, no-nonsense notes. You can pick up a beautiful diary or notebook for such purposes, in any case, this object should make you want to make a note.

For lovers of everything electronic, keeping a diary can be transferred to digital format and keep records in a convenient document. How exactly to lead - determine according to your taste and rely on your preferences.

How to keep a success diary

As we said, you can get creative with the process of keeping such a journal. For starters, make sure that the diary itself looks beautiful. If you do not like to keep records manually, then, as already mentioned, you can keep records on your computer, creating a convenient table. Let us mention right away that there are many techniques for keeping a success diary, we will cite one of them.

The process of journaling itself can be divided into four important stages:

• Goal setting.
• Defining parameters for tracking the achievement of goals.
• Goal tracking process.
• Checking.

Goal setting

This is the most important and crucial stage, because the goal must be clearly defined. Specific deadlines should also be set for its implementation. You need to approach this rationally and give real deadlines, and not tight ones. Know how to correctly assess your potential and capabilities, take into account various factors that, for various reasons, can delay the achievement of the intended, so to speak, force majeure.

For training, first it is better to set a small goal for yourself, in the fulfillment of which you will be one hundred percent sure, and then, gradually, you will complicate the tasks. For example, organizing your own business of federal significance is good and wonderful, but to do it in a year, especially if the skills and knowledge are not enough for this, is simply unrealistic, but in 10-15 years, at least, it is quite possible. But even such grandiose plans can be broken down into mini-goals and go to the planned one in small but confident steps. For instance:

1. Find a business area in which you want to be realized.
2. Make calculations and build a business plan.
3. Read literature on the relevant topic
4. …

This is, of course, a rough example, but the essence is stated and clear. By implementing the most, at first glance, insignificant points, you are already getting closer to your success.

Tracking options

Next, you need to clearly define the criteria by which you can observe your personal progress. In each paragraph that you described in the first stage, you need to mark small sub-paragraphs for yourself, by which you can understand that the mini-goal is completed. It all depends on the content of stage 1. In the example given earlier on the first point, everything will be clear when the business area in which one wants to be realized is clearly defined and the need to change it disappears. On the second point, it will be possible to relax when a specific amount of capital for the business itself is identified and calculated, etc.

Tracking process

At this stage, there are exactly those very tracking records of what you have done in order to get closer to your success. In addition, it is advisable to record notes on the topic of what helped you, stimulated you in business, what distracted and interfered with. This way you can increase the number of motivators and reduce the percentage of hindrances.

These kinds of records are kept on a daily basis. Even if nothing happened, write it down and mention the reason for this state of affairs. This will discipline and, again, allow you to track the entire process visually. It is useful to flip through your old notes from time to time in order to remember something forgotten but useful. In this way, you can adjust your behavior, your views and observe how things are progressing.

In order to avoid disappointment, it is important to initially realize that in the beginning the results may not be as impressive as you would like. But remember that only without stopping you can move towards bigger and more serious victories.

Check

If the deadline has come, and you have not achieved the intended result, in no case do not be discouraged. Most likely, you did not calculate your strength and set tight deadlines. Analyze at what stage you are at a particular moment, answer the question "why did you not meet the established framework?" If the task has been completed by more than 50% - this is already good, just continue in the same spirit, extending the previously set deadlines.

And always remember, there are no small victories, every step in the right direction is already accomplishment for a better future!