365 Days of Productivity
How To Use a Freelancer’s Journal To Maintain Your Focus and Growth
There’s more than one way to moleskin a notebook
People tout the benefits of journaling when it comes to finding your calm or clarifying your dreams and goals. There is a proven benefit to this practice. But it’s not the only way you can leverage journaling to your advantage.
Consider adopting a freelancer’s journal. It looks a lot like any other kind of journal. It could be a beautiful, fancy moleskin journal, or it could be a simple, wire-bound college notebook. All you need is paper and a pen.
Yes, you could go digital, but I’d recommend old fashioned paper and pen. It forces you to slow down and compose your thoughts a little more. The idea is to use this journal to look at your freelancing career — what’s been happening right, what’s been wrong, how things could be better, and where to go from here. This journaling works best in the evening as you’re winding down your day, although it could easily be used early mornings also as you consider the previous day.
To gather and organize these thoughts, I like to break down my entries into five questions. I may not respond to all of them, and sometimes I’ll have more to say. But these five questions will form…
