"A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true." ~Greg S. Reid I have always searched for the perfect planner. I have searched for a long time and throughout the years have found a combination of journals and planners that would be perfect if it were one book. My dream Planning Journal would help me map out my future and help me reflect on my past. It would help me plan my daily, monthly and yearly tasks. It will help me organize my financial, educational, professional and personal life. It can be a place to help me jot down thoughts and ideas. Well since I can't find one, I created one. I have been using my own creation for two weeks now and it serves its purpose. I love writing in it, it stays close and goes with me everywhere! With the age of technology, who would want to write in a book anymore? One might ask. Simple, Technology fails. I am a big
We are our own worst enemies at times. We stop ourselves from achieving greatness because we often listen to that little negative voice in our head. It tells us that we are not good enough, it compares us to other pioneers in our fields and it loves to pick apart all of our dreams and ideas. When dealing with that pessimistic mindset we analyze everything that could go wrong so we delay that dream and wait until the perfect time. Days, months and sometimes years go by and that dream is collecting dust, stored away in the deep corners of our mind somewhere, slowly vanishing away. We may not ever revisit that dream, remember it or even think about it ever again. It may be lost forever if we let ourselves tell us we can't when indeed we CAN. Let's look at Stephen King and the journey of his book, Carrie. He wrote the book in 1974 and even gave up on it himself after it was rejected 30 times. His wife believed in his work, rescuing the manuscript from the trash and ask