Planner Journal:
Want a daytimer and performance journal all in one? A journal where you can track your goals, monitor your progress, and stay focused?
Life coach, Brendon Burchard, has created a high-performance planner with a daily journal. You can also track your goals and performance on a weekly and monthly assessment.
I use it.
Pros:
- No Set Date but leaves a blank date entry. This makes the planner flexible to start whenever you buy it, instead of waiting until the first of the year.
- Time slots from 6:00 am – 7:30 pm allowing flexibility for non-working items such as prayer, meditation, exercise for example.
- Morning Mindset and Evening Journal focuses on holistic goals from your work, your relationships, your productivity, and spiritual focuses.
- Weekly & Monthly Learning Review emphasizes analyzing your time to include finances, relationships, and spiritual life.
- Ribbon bookmark serving as a placeholder for where you left off.
- Comes in a variety of colors.
Cons:
- Each planner covers only a quarter, so need to buy four for a year. They do offer a full-year pack.
- If you miss an entry, you’ll get behind when approaching the weekly or monthly assessments. Either move past and return to weekly or monthly assessments when you reach them.
Click on the image above to purchase:
Link if you want it in blue, yellow, red, orange, green, or full-year pack.
Rocket Book Journal
Do you want a re-usable digital notebook? Rocket Book Journal is for you. I’ve never used this, but like the concept.
Benefits:
- Write on a physical notebook.
- Re-use by erasing the entries with water and cloth.
- Use the Rocket app to upload to the cloud so your handwritten entries are digitally saved.
Other Physical Notebooks
Moleskins: These blank journals are very clean and crisp. If you’re a fan, you can store them neatly in one place for a uniform pile. Great journal for bullet journaling as well. I’ve used them.
Guided Journal: Help you set goals, track progress, and look at your future. Written by a licensed social worker and life coach.
Gratitude Journal: This 52-week guide to help you grow your gratitude muscle. You start each day with three things you’re grateful for. A great tool to focus on affirming, motivational thoughts. Great tool if writing a devotional!
The Q&A a Day Journal provides one daily prompt that you answer for five years. In one page, you can see how your answers changed or not. Might serve as inspiration for blogging.
Aesthetically pleasing, customized blank journals, Etsy has a plethora of Storefronts (like the one below).
Apps:
- Evernote. I use Evernote for jotting notes for just about everything from story ideas, church sermons, exercises, and random thoughts. I use it primarily on my phone, but it does sync with other devices.
- Scrivener: This word-processing app is not only my go-to for writing my books, but I use it to journal my dreams and as a diary. I can create folders and files and view on the left-margin for easy access. Having files organized under folders provide structure to organize your journal into topics or dates.
- Google Docs. Since this is on a Cloud, you can collaborate with someone else. Yes, journaling is normally a private exercise, if you want to share your entries with your accountability partner or your loved one, this makes it easy for them to access. My fiance and I share a prayer journal on our Google drive.
Do you prefer a physical journal where you handwrite your entries? Or going modern, using an app? What journaling tools work for you? Please share in Comments below. Thank you!
Featured Image by Amanda Randolph from Pixabay