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Make Your Journal Your Accountability Partner

30-Day Challenge — Finding Your Journaling Style — Day 14

As we’ve seen, journaling offers numerous benefits. In today’s post, I would like to focus specifically on the benefit of it as an accountability partner. It is easy to make plans or set goals. Following through, however, can be much more difficult. That is where your journal comes in. Let’s talk about the ways you can use your journal as an accountability partner to help you follow through on the objectives you set for your life.

Make Your Goals More Real

When you set goals in your head, it can be hard to see them as real and tangible. They may seem like just a wish or a far-off dream. Instead, writing your plans down in your journal begins the process of getting them out of your head and into the world. You can then continue the writing process to flesh out those goals and get down to the real work of planning.

Track Progress

It can be incredibly tempting to give up on a goal when the going gets tough or when you think you’ll never reach the finish line. Thankfully, a journal is a perfect tool for keeping track of your progress. You can create a page meant for tracking specific milestones of your goal…