Writing a Career Journal can be a great way to help you develop and grow as well as keep a record of your achievements. Writing daily or even weekly can help you focus on the positives, work through the negatives and help with any stress and anxiety in a safe space.
What type of Journal do you want?
Part of our offering on this blog is offering prompts for your journal as well as encouraging you to write free writing entries. However, you can still choose from different styles of journals.
- visual journal – you might choose to write a visual journal and include colour, photographs and stickers;
- bullet journal – alternatively you might subscribe to the bullet journal method style of journalling;
- daily / 365 – alternatively, you might find that a more basic daily journal /page a day style might suit you better if you are more about the words;
or brain dump in an everyday notebook.
The great thing is there are no rules for journalling – all you need to do is write.
Choose a style that inspires you or swap and change between styles depending on your mood.
10 Things to write about in your journal
01 Record daily events
You can use your journal to record daily events and keep a daily journal of your day. This might be making a note of how your day went or how you feel. It might be writing down a list of things you learned or other noteworthy things that happened during the day so that you can remember them and take the opportunity to review and reflect on them at a later date.
02 Celebrate your achivements
When writing about daily events and activities take the time to celebrate the small things. Your
03 Break your goals down into to-do lists.
Write about your goals and what you want to achieve and how you are going to get there. Your goals should be broken down into an actual to do
04 Collect quotes and advice.
Use your journal to keep a record of inspirational quotes and good advice that you have been given (or have read). Your journal can be a resource full of a great collection of quotes and advice to empower and motivate you.
05 Write lists
Many of our prompts are list prompts. Lists can be a great way to quickly jot down useful information and plan out your career.
06 Write down questions for yourself.
Ask yourself questions. A journal can be a great way to review, reflect and think things out clearly. Using prompt questions (or taking inspiration from things you have read) asking yourself questions can be a great way to sort out your thoughts.
07 Make a ‘things to do’ list.
It is important to not just have an endless to-do list that drags on. Be sure to include an aspirational list or bucket list of things that you would like to do or things you want to do but never seem to have time for. Also make it a habit to regularly check in on your “things to do” list to make sure that you make progress.
08 Write a five-year plan.
Write a plan. As well as your year plan make sure you also have a loose
09 Create your own list of Regular Prompts
Using a list of regular prompts can make sure that you write regularly on your chosen topics or can help you when you are suffering from a bit of writer’s block and need something to get the words flowing.
10 Use our Weekly Prompts
Finally, don’t forget to use our weekly prompts that we publish every Monday on the blog.