Today marks the day of a new journal

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Ben Young, serial entrepreneur, speaker, author and founder of bwagy shares daily ideas on his blog in small digestible bites, aimed to make you rethink business, marketing and the world around you. check out http://blog.bwagy.com

Keeping a journal is a fantastic habit to have, you don’t realise the value till you have it and use it.

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Last week I actually finished my second journal for the year, and are now on the third.  Yay!

You see it keeps a nice history by day of what you were up to, places for sketches & ideas and is very handy to wind back the clock and see the key takeaways from each meeting (or what you were doing on a specific day).

I’m often referring back to meetings 6, 7 months ago, using my Google Calendar as a reference to check when I met someone.

So grab one today, make it a habit to carry it everywhere with you and jot down pertinent notes, I bet you do it anyway but just aren’t keeping it in a centralised location.



Extra: If you are already using a journal, what’s the best story you have from using it? I’d be keen to hear them.

 
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  • that guy says
    @bwagy (Ben Young), how do you compare physical pen and paper journal vs electronic eg blackberry sync'd
  • Ben says
    Writing electronically is still relatively disposable (a point that could be argued) but in my experience what gets written sticks, you recall much easier but also you have no restrictions on your expression. Case in point my cartoon I drew for a client to demonstrate what I was talking about. Even better you can rip a page out and give it to a client - which again I've found more effective that sending an email.

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