Category: business journaling

If business journaling gets hard: celebrate!

Caring for your new habit & developing your journaling practice You have been into business journaling for a while now. Do you feel stuck recently or you’re not really getting into the flow? But: you know the basics. You even have good reasons to journal:  You can help yourself to success, big time, by respecting and […]

How ‘guidance’ and ‘freestyle’ flow together in Business Journaling

Now that you have an idea Where and Why to start, let’s look into the main building blocks I took and adapted from Bullet Journaling (BuJo) for my guided-freestyle approach.  This will help you to get a better understanding of how things work together to your favour of getting more organised and to leverage the power of reflection. This piece covers: […]

Where to start and How to keep going

Make success as easy as possible for you Now that you’ve chosen to try out my Bullet Journaling inspired guided-freestyle Business Journaling approach, you already have all the material you need in front of you: “How to actually get going?” might now be the next question on your mind. Common Whys for Journaling There are two main approaches […]

Start Journaling today and risk ditching your limiting beliefs

I have been an avid journaling person for years now. I use my journal for work and beyond. I keep calling this combination Business Journaling as for many folks it still seems unimaginable to use a journal (a paper diary!) in a work context.  It all started with pre-print journaling and for over 4 years I am into a […]

Letting your practise change

It’s been more than a year ago when I used my first 6-Minutes diary (read about my experience back then here). Then I discovered BulletJournaling and practised this guided free-style journaling technique for almost a year. For the darker, colder time 🍁🌨️🍂 of this unique pandemic year I recently decided to switch to a bit […]

Journaling practise struggles

Recently I’ve been struggling with my journaling routine, especially with the gratitude practise (which itself is a big contributor for a decent mental health). After noticing that, I leveraged two resources I already have: Having peers An established habit Both helped me to get through this practise struggles. Peers & community Firstly, this struggle showed […]

What kind of journaling method should I choose? And why?

A consultant would say “it depends”. 😉 When it comes to choosing your first journal – no matter if it is “only” for private stuff, for business or your whole life – it really depends. It depends i.e. on your (pre)experience with written self-reflection practises, on the level of discipline you can/want to spend, on […]

10 reasons why you should _NOT_ start Bullet Journaling (IV)

Okay, I see… you are either (still) curious about Bullet Journaling or you are already on your journey of regular written (self-)reflection and find it useful. (Pssst, I tell you a secret: either way I am very happy about that! :)) With this fourth and closing part (see parts one, two, three) I share two […]

10 reasons why you should _NOT_ start Bullet Journaling (III)

Do you still keep your structured daily journal? Or even worse: are you still keen on starting one? Obviously you didn’t read parts one and two of this series. Wait, you DID?? And you’re still convinced that you should start with Bullet Journaling pretty soon? Then here are two more arguments that should finally stop […]

10 reasons why you should _NOT_ start Bullet Journaling (II)

After reading the first part of this “Beware of Bullet Journaling”-series, I hope that – IF you practised this method to free your self to achieve what truly matters to you – already stopped doing it. 😉 If not, here are three more arguments why you should really stop it! In fact, Bullet Journaling can […]