I have 3 big areas that are the cornerstones of everything I do each day.
- Personal Growth
- Home and Garden Growth
- Business Growth
These are pretty broad but they keep me on track because the things I choose to do either fit into the big vision or they don't. It's pretty black and white.
Like right now - writing about my big vision areas helps me with personal growth. I am strengthening my belief that having a vision or life purpose and focusing on it is producing a positive impact on how I think about myself.
Writing about this in my public blog leads to personal growth and business growth for me.
Wanting to buy a mindset journal instead of using the ones I have created does not align with any of my big vision areas. Looking at other journals on the market fuels my thoughts of self-doubt. If I buy one it goes against my goal of saving more and spending less. If I keep looking, I procrastinate about writing this blog. 
Just being aware that some of the things I want to do will have a negative impact on my life makes me feel more in control. I have to choose rather than just let things happen. I have a choice about what my future self will be.
I chose to sit down and follow my plan for working on growing my digital planner shop. Knowing this is a good choice makes me feel successful. When I tick off the tasks I have listed regarding my digital planner business I feel successful again. Each small success builds my confidence.
That's what confidence is. The knowledge that you have been successful at something in the past along with the increasing surety that you will continue to be successful in the future.
I spent a few months trialing my Mindful Cat Journal and I found that the titled pages for morning, evening and highlights really made me want to fill it in. If I couldn't think of 4 highlights I added some gratitude.
Just by accident I copied the regular journal for my March journal. It just has one page for each day with no special headings.
I've been struggling to do an evening post and I found it hard to find the highlights when I was doing my weekly reviews. Some days I forgot to do highlights and when I did write them down they just blended in with the rest of the writing so I had to read and search for the highlights making it harder to make myself fill them in on the review.
The daily highlights page makes it easy to review my week.
So, how does journaling increase my confidence?
- I write about what I want to achieve in the day.
- I write about what I did achieve during the day.
- I summarise my successes in the Daily Highlights page.
- At the end of the week I write down all my achievements for the week and celebrate by feeling great.
- My confidence soars and I start the new week sure of new successes and so it goes.
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Here's to your own personal growth,
Val
