10 Reasons To Write Things Down
A big part of GTD is writing everything down. The idea is that you don’t want to rely on your memory and clutter your mind with things you don’t necessarily need to keep in there.
What many people who begin doing this find is that there are other benefits. For instance, you will almost invariably become more self-reflective.
Written goals are important. One thing a lot of very successful self improvement writers – Anthony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar and so on - go on and on about is the importance of having written goals. A written goal brings clarity and focus. It gives you a direction. And by rewriting your goals you not only reaffirm what your goals are. You may also have found new insights that bring more clarity and focus to your goal and life. A written goal is also a powerful reminder that you can use to keep yourself on track.
These are the 10 reasons The Positivity Blog do it, what are yours?
Why You Should Write Things Down - [ThePositivityBlog]
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Henrik Edberg says on September 13th, 2007 at 8:27 am
Thanks for the mention. I really appreciate it. I´m looking forward to reading what reasons to write things down that other people have found.
addy says on September 15th, 2007 at 10:18 am
My reason for writing everything down is because I have a really bad memory (it must be genetic because my mother is the same way). Don’t ask me what I did yesterday because it would either take me a few minutes to think about it, or I’ll need to reach for my calendar. My counselor suggested, because of my tendency towards anxiety, that I write down what I do during the day as a reminder of what I accomplished or didn’t accomplish so I’m not pulling my hair out at the end of the week figuring out what I did.
Another reason is writing things down helps me to process information and visually organize it (once I see it).
I think journaling is a good idea, especially because I don’t always remember why something bothered me. I also like the idea of “becoming better acquainted with yourself”.
Nelli says on September 24th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I found the better way to avoid missing ideas and keeping in mind diverse things. I prefer to keep track of them in a web based tool. This ensures me access to them from anywhere, anytime. You can give it a try: http://www.wrike.com/blog/7/21.....BlackBerry