Sales Journals
I write in my journal every day. I wouldn't call it a sales journal but I write two entries every day, one on my personal life and one on sales. This practice allows me to identify the most important things in my life so I can work on first things first and more importantly initiates an internal dialog with myself on how I am going to tackle one my current challenges. There might be several challenges I am facing involving school, personal relationships, or sales but in every case it helps to write out what the problem is and how I might possibly solve it. Sometimes it becomes obvious that I need to get advice or just have patience when before thinking about it and writing down the ideas it seemed stressful. So far my journal is about 350 pages long on my computer, usually writing a few paragraphs each day. Some things to consider doing while writing in your own journal include
- Separate personal from business idea discussions
- Write out everything even if it seems trivial or only a temporary issue
- Try consistently writing about the same challenge after reviewing what you have written before. Many times you will be in different moods and have had different daily experiences that could allow you to come up with creative solutions to problems if you consistently come back to them with new thoughts.
- Include best practices, quotes, or lessons you learned at work. This way you can "control f" search for them within word at a later point if you want to review them again.
- Write for yourself and nobody else. If you use the journal like I do this if for your career and personal development and nothing else.
- They say you save 5 minutes for every 1 minute that you spend planning. I wonder how many years of a fulfilling life you gain for every year that you spend writing in your journal every day about your challenges, goals and dreams?
- Start writing in your journal today. It only takes 5 minutes a day.
- Richard
I write in my journal every day. I wouldn't call it a sales journal but I write two entries every day, one on my personal life and one on sales. This practice allows me to identify the most important things in my life so I can work on first things first and more importantly initiates an internal dialog with myself on how I am going to tackle one my current challenges. There might be several challenges I am facing involving school, personal relationships, or sales but in every case it helps to write out what the problem is and how I might possibly solve it. Sometimes it becomes obvious that I need to get advice or just have patience when before thinking about it and writing down the ideas it seemed stressful. So far my journal is about 350 pages long on my computer, usually writing a few paragraphs each day. Some things to consider doing while writing in your own journal include
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