Another app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac users, Day One helps you keep a digital diary complete with pictures, maps, and notes about your day. This app can cut across devices, presenting you with the same look and format for each platform. Day One 2 Journal + Notes ($4.99) by Bloom Built, LLC is a huge update to everyone's favorite journaling app.With Day One 2, everything has been rebuilt from the ground up, essentially, giving. Journal Every Day 'Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.' — Stephen R.Covey. Journaling daily is the most potent and powerful keystone habit you can acquire.
Journal Every Day 'Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.' — Stephen R.Covey. Journaling daily is the most potent and powerful keystone habit you can acquire. Jan 09, 2015 Keeping a Daily Journal Can Give You Tremendous Power. Keep track of your goals by logging daily action steps. You might notice you didn't do as much one day in comparison to another.
As I was growing up, I was always interested in keeping a journal to document my life. I tried several times to get into journaling. I still have those journals where I wrote somewhere between five and fifteen entries before either forgetting or losing interest. Never had I been able to journal consistently despite how much I wanted to or how many pretty new notebooks I got.
Then, in 2013, I discovered Day One, and that changed my journaling game.
Day One is an iOS and Mac journaling application. It syncs beautifully across all your devices and lets you add multiple journals, photos and tags to your entries, and create reminders for you to write. You can log your location, the current weather data, your step count, and even the music you're listening to.
I'm all for the look and feel of a physical journal, but the convenience of being able to journal on-the-go with my phone and instantly add photos to document my day is unbeatable.
Let's get into the meat of this post: how I use Day One.
First off I have five different journals within Day One. As you can guess, Daily Musings is where I write my daily journal entries. I have missed a few days here and there, but for the most part, I have been writing daily since the fall of 2013. Writing in Day One has become part of my routine and my day feels incomplete without doing it.
Some of these daily entries are only a couple of short sentences, but sometimes, but when I have more to say, I'll write a few paragraphs.
I'll write about what I've been up to that day, and about what's on my mind. If any major event happens, I'll include that. During the spring of senior year, I would write an entry as each of my college decisions came out and tagged so I could see them all together. I also had tags for entries with my track times, SAT scores (I'm such a nerd, I know), and snow days and delays from school. I even had a phase where I tagged what I wore to school on my daily entry so I could check that I wasn't wearing the same top twice within a couple of weeks (I'm a little embarrassed about this, but I have to admit Day One served the purpose).
My next journal is Reflections. This is mostly made up of monthly reflections that I write at the end of each month. These personal reflections are pretty casual. I normally write about 300 words about the highs and lows about the last month and what I wish I would have done better. Some months I'm more insightful than others, but in some I end up just highlighting the things that have happened.
I also have a few school year reflections from high school and am writing semester reflections for college. In these, I'll reflect on the goals I set before the school year or semester began, what I did best, and what I've learned for next time.
Writing reflections helps put my life into perspective and make me seriously think about what kind of direction I'm going in, so I'm really glad I started doing them.
I've only just started the last three journals recently. Reviews is for my thoughts in books, movies, and anything else I feel I want to write about. In Goals, I really just have some new years' resolutions. In Notes, I currently just have blog post ideas, but I started the journal with the intent that it would be the place where I would could just jot things down there rather than opening up a Word Document or using stickies.
Most of the time I journal on my MacBook, but I also often journal on my iPad. I usually only journal on my iPhone when I'm traveling or super busy. I prefer to write my reflections on my MacBook since they're longer and the physical keyboard makes it easier to type.
One of my absolute favorite things about Day One is looking back on old entries. Using its 'On this Day' feature, I can quickly find all my entries that I've written on that day throughout the years. It is so cool to see what I was up to one, two, and three years ago.
Day One makes journaling more accessible and fun to use. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to start journaling, but has a tough time doing it consistently. I would also recommend it to someone who already keeps a physical journal, but would appreciate the extra features of Day One like adding photos and your location. Additionally, you would never have the fear of losing your journal with Day One syncing your entries to your account!
Do you like to journal? Do you already use or would like to use an app like Day One? Let me know in the comments below!
Best,
Angie
For over three years, I have reaped unbelievable benefits from keeping and writing in a journal daily. Being able to have a place where I can analyze where I am, see my daily progress and capture quotes/sayings that really move me has been incredibly beneficial.
As the late Jim Rohn once said, 'A life worth living is a life worth recording.'
Not only can a journal be a place where we store important information, record quotes or sayings that move us, but it's also a wonderful tool to help us analyze where we are at and where we want to go.
Related: The Difference Between Successful and Very Successful People
A journal can be used in a number of different ways. Personally, I do quite a few different things in my journal. Below, I will give you an excerpt from my own personal journal, but first I want to jump into five reasons why you should consider keeping a journal.
1. Increase your happiness by listing five things you are grateful for each day.
Before I do anything else, I begin to list five to 10 things I am grateful for that particular day. There is tremendous power in actually writing down on paper what you are grateful for. The pen to paper to mind connection is magical.
2. Keep track of your goals by logging daily action steps.
The little things can pay big dividends. Being able to physically write your goals for the year and track the action steps that are being taken towards them is a sure path to success. You might notice you didn't do as much one day in comparison to another. This will help pinpoint areas of growth so more can be done to maintain consistent progress, even on a bad day.
3. Jot down key lessons learned throughout the day or notes from a book you are currently reading.
Find a quote you like and write it down. Learn something new from an online course you are enrolled in and write it down. However you are learning or searching for ways to grow as an individual, being able to write down what you learned is reinforcing the concept. You'll be able to go back at a later date and look at what was written to refresh your memory.
4. Monitor your health and fitness gains.
Sometimes something might or might not be working, but being able to quickly write down the results you are seeing, your actual workout you did for the day, or how you felt before and after the workout is setting you up for optimal health because you are making it a priority.
5. Take motivation levels to a whole new level and grow individually daily.
Being able to write down how you are feeling, what you are learning, quotes and sayings that move and inspire you is motivating. When you go back and look at what you wrote the previous day, you will be able to see progress or a saying that inspires you to move faster and work harder.
Those are just a few ways I use my own personal journal. There really is no right or wrong way.
Another app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac users, Day One helps you keep a digital diary complete with pictures, maps, and notes about your day. This app can cut across devices, presenting you with the same look and format for each platform. Day One 2 Journal + Notes ($4.99) by Bloom Built, LLC is a huge update to everyone's favorite journaling app.With Day One 2, everything has been rebuilt from the ground up, essentially, giving. Journal Every Day 'Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.' — Stephen R.Covey. Journaling daily is the most potent and powerful keystone habit you can acquire.
Journal Every Day 'Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.' — Stephen R.Covey. Journaling daily is the most potent and powerful keystone habit you can acquire. Jan 09, 2015 Keeping a Daily Journal Can Give You Tremendous Power. Keep track of your goals by logging daily action steps. You might notice you didn't do as much one day in comparison to another.
As I was growing up, I was always interested in keeping a journal to document my life. I tried several times to get into journaling. I still have those journals where I wrote somewhere between five and fifteen entries before either forgetting or losing interest. Never had I been able to journal consistently despite how much I wanted to or how many pretty new notebooks I got.
Then, in 2013, I discovered Day One, and that changed my journaling game.
Day One is an iOS and Mac journaling application. It syncs beautifully across all your devices and lets you add multiple journals, photos and tags to your entries, and create reminders for you to write. You can log your location, the current weather data, your step count, and even the music you're listening to.
I'm all for the look and feel of a physical journal, but the convenience of being able to journal on-the-go with my phone and instantly add photos to document my day is unbeatable.
Let's get into the meat of this post: how I use Day One.
First off I have five different journals within Day One. As you can guess, Daily Musings is where I write my daily journal entries. I have missed a few days here and there, but for the most part, I have been writing daily since the fall of 2013. Writing in Day One has become part of my routine and my day feels incomplete without doing it.
Some of these daily entries are only a couple of short sentences, but sometimes, but when I have more to say, I'll write a few paragraphs.
I'll write about what I've been up to that day, and about what's on my mind. If any major event happens, I'll include that. During the spring of senior year, I would write an entry as each of my college decisions came out and tagged so I could see them all together. I also had tags for entries with my track times, SAT scores (I'm such a nerd, I know), and snow days and delays from school. I even had a phase where I tagged what I wore to school on my daily entry so I could check that I wasn't wearing the same top twice within a couple of weeks (I'm a little embarrassed about this, but I have to admit Day One served the purpose).
My next journal is Reflections. This is mostly made up of monthly reflections that I write at the end of each month. These personal reflections are pretty casual. I normally write about 300 words about the highs and lows about the last month and what I wish I would have done better. Some months I'm more insightful than others, but in some I end up just highlighting the things that have happened.
I also have a few school year reflections from high school and am writing semester reflections for college. In these, I'll reflect on the goals I set before the school year or semester began, what I did best, and what I've learned for next time.
Writing reflections helps put my life into perspective and make me seriously think about what kind of direction I'm going in, so I'm really glad I started doing them.
I've only just started the last three journals recently. Reviews is for my thoughts in books, movies, and anything else I feel I want to write about. In Goals, I really just have some new years' resolutions. In Notes, I currently just have blog post ideas, but I started the journal with the intent that it would be the place where I would could just jot things down there rather than opening up a Word Document or using stickies.
Most of the time I journal on my MacBook, but I also often journal on my iPad. I usually only journal on my iPhone when I'm traveling or super busy. I prefer to write my reflections on my MacBook since they're longer and the physical keyboard makes it easier to type.
One of my absolute favorite things about Day One is looking back on old entries. Using its 'On this Day' feature, I can quickly find all my entries that I've written on that day throughout the years. It is so cool to see what I was up to one, two, and three years ago.
Day One makes journaling more accessible and fun to use. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to start journaling, but has a tough time doing it consistently. I would also recommend it to someone who already keeps a physical journal, but would appreciate the extra features of Day One like adding photos and your location. Additionally, you would never have the fear of losing your journal with Day One syncing your entries to your account!
Do you like to journal? Do you already use or would like to use an app like Day One? Let me know in the comments below!
Best,
Angie
For over three years, I have reaped unbelievable benefits from keeping and writing in a journal daily. Being able to have a place where I can analyze where I am, see my daily progress and capture quotes/sayings that really move me has been incredibly beneficial.
As the late Jim Rohn once said, 'A life worth living is a life worth recording.'
Not only can a journal be a place where we store important information, record quotes or sayings that move us, but it's also a wonderful tool to help us analyze where we are at and where we want to go.
Related: The Difference Between Successful and Very Successful People
A journal can be used in a number of different ways. Personally, I do quite a few different things in my journal. Below, I will give you an excerpt from my own personal journal, but first I want to jump into five reasons why you should consider keeping a journal.
1. Increase your happiness by listing five things you are grateful for each day.
Before I do anything else, I begin to list five to 10 things I am grateful for that particular day. There is tremendous power in actually writing down on paper what you are grateful for. The pen to paper to mind connection is magical.
2. Keep track of your goals by logging daily action steps.
The little things can pay big dividends. Being able to physically write your goals for the year and track the action steps that are being taken towards them is a sure path to success. You might notice you didn't do as much one day in comparison to another. This will help pinpoint areas of growth so more can be done to maintain consistent progress, even on a bad day.
3. Jot down key lessons learned throughout the day or notes from a book you are currently reading.
Find a quote you like and write it down. Learn something new from an online course you are enrolled in and write it down. However you are learning or searching for ways to grow as an individual, being able to write down what you learned is reinforcing the concept. You'll be able to go back at a later date and look at what was written to refresh your memory.
4. Monitor your health and fitness gains.
Sometimes something might or might not be working, but being able to quickly write down the results you are seeing, your actual workout you did for the day, or how you felt before and after the workout is setting you up for optimal health because you are making it a priority.
5. Take motivation levels to a whole new level and grow individually daily.
Being able to write down how you are feeling, what you are learning, quotes and sayings that move and inspire you is motivating. When you go back and look at what you wrote the previous day, you will be able to see progress or a saying that inspires you to move faster and work harder.
Those are just a few ways I use my own personal journal. There really is no right or wrong way.
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As promised, here is an excerpt from my very own personal journal to give you a good idea on how to get started:
Aug. 7, 2013
- Today I am extremely grateful for the health of my family and friends. Without them, I am nothing.
- I am grateful for the opportunity to be speaking to 1,000 business leaders on how to maximize their performance as an organization. I feel so blessed to be able to do what I love but more importantly serve others.
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Fitness and health
I ran 2.5 miles this morning and got in a light dynamic lower-body workout before prepping for my speech. I felt great before and after my workout. I reached my goal today of drinking 1 liter immediately upon waking. Before bed tonight, I will spend 10 to 15 minutes stretching.
Daily objectives
To serve and bring tremendous value to the client. Spend time before and after the event talking with employees on ways they think the organization can grow and become better. Report my talks with leadership with a follow up phone call.
I came across a quote from Norman Vincent Peale today that really touched me.
'Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.'
This quote speaks volumes in so many ways. Self-confidence is an absolute must for anyone striving to achieve their biggest goals and dreams in life.
It's my hope that after reading this you feel a little more compelled to utilize the tremendous power of a journal. It can be a fantastic tool to help make 2015 a fantastic year for you. Even if you are a little reluctant at first, just try it for 30 days.
I can confidently say that I think you will be pretty satisfied after the 30 days are up and won't want to stop anytime thereafter.
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