Online Business - Why Writing In a Diary Is Beneficial

Many people use a diary as a to-do list. In fact you can buy diaries that are specifically for this purpose whereby you can write in them what you need to do each day. In this article I want to talk about using a diary for work purposes but not as a to-do list.

Whether you work at home or not, using a diary can be helpful. Although this article is aimed at those who have an online business what I am about to suggest would help anyone achieve something that they really want to.

I like to use a diary as a journal. I use it to write down exactly what I have done and what I have achieved. So instead of using it to list the things I need to do, instead I use it to write down the things I have actually done.

For me this is far more useful as a tool to motivate me to continue taking action. One of the most difficult things when you work at home is being able to keep focused and to be productive in your workday.

If at the end of every day you had to talk to a real person and tell them exactly what you had achieved and you were accountable to that person, do you think you would actually get more done? I believe you would be far more productive if you knew that at the end of the day someone was going to be questioning you and what you had actually achieved.

I like to use my diary in this way. My diary is making me accountable because I have to write in it what I've done. If I haven't had a very productive day and there's not a lot that I can write in my diary it doesn't look very good.
However, if I have had a really productive day and I have achieved a lot of goals then writing that in my diary makes me feel much better and gives me the motivation to have another productive day.

The key thing about keeping a diary in this way is that there is one rule. That rule is that I can only write the tasks that have actually drawn me closer to my goal. In an online business this would only be the tasks that have increased my business because my goal is to build my business and grow it bigger and bigger.

By having this as a rule it means that I can't fill my diary with lots of things that I have done that in fact were not productive such as surfing, writing emails, spending time on Facebook. etc.

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