Keep Track of Important Information with a Work Journal

Document your daily work, note contacts with supervisors, coworkers, and support personnel, even track upcoming deadlines with an organized work journal.

It can be hard sometimes in the daily rush of completing work assignments, juggling meetings, and hitting deadlines to remember the details of interpersonal communications and the myriad facts that come your way. Taking the time to keep an ongoing log of conversations, work accomplished, and other important info can serve to orient you in your work day. It can also save you some major headaches if you document events in real time; miscommunications happen, disputes arise, and if you've taken notes in a chronological journal you're well armed to resolve any disagreement as to what was said about a particular issue, by whom, and when.

One very helpful data set to include in a work journal is a timed log of the work you accomplish during the course of a day. Note the start time, details of the work accomplished, the end time, and the total time used for each assignment. Also record the time, duration, and details of any interruptions you experience; if you have a dispute with your supervisor about your work load or your ability to accomplish your assignments, a detailed work journal can help you document the way you've used your time, and can often pinpoint obstacles that have gotten in your way. This type of log can also help you analyze, for your own purposes, the way you use your time, and may suggest changes that will make your work life more productive and less stressful.

In the unfortunate circumstance that you find yourself a target of someone's criticism or personal animosity, record, as accurately as you can, each contact with this individual and every event that may impact on this situation. If you end up in trouble with your employer because of this type of dispute, your detailed work records and the log of the dispute may be your best protection.

Once you develop the habit of chronicling your work day, you'll find that your work journal is an invaluable tool. So brainstorm a format that makes sense for you, buy a couple journals in a size and style you like, and start documenting.

Taking the time needed to get to know yourself is one of the most important things you can do for yourself, your family, and your community! Don't think that taking time for yourself is selfish, because it's really not. If anything, in the long run, it's altruistic.

According to Socrates, one of our greatest thinkers of all-time, getting to know yourself is truly the most important thing you can do in your lifetime. We all know that Socrates might have been one of the wisest men to roam this planet. It Socrates says this is true, then what do you think we should do?

I challenge you to step your way up toward Socrates' level of thinking. Once you get to know yourself, you may find yourself at peace for the first real time in your life. When you get to know yourself, then you will no longer take part in self-defeating behaviors. You will finally have a real chance of winning and living your life at your true level of potential!

While living at your true level of potential, you'll be in a much better position to help yourself and to help your family. No longer will you feel overburdened by family problems. Instead, you'll develop into the family leader. You'll become the one in your family tree that turned it all around for many generations to come.

When the common problems of not knowing yourself and dealing with your own family problems no longer robs you of your power, but instead now empowers you, you'll find a little spring in your step. You'll finally be ready to take on the world.

Your community and your world need leaders like you who know who they are and who feel comfortable in their own skin. The world is looking for someone to lead us all to a higher quality of life. Will that someone be you? I hope so!

Now teens, and even tweens, go learn, lead, and lay the way to a better world for all of us. Take the time to really to get to know yourself. Remember, you have to love yourself before you can truly love others. Shadow work journal If you don't, you'll never be any good to anyone. Get to know yourself, love yourself, and become comfortable in your own skin. Trust me, you won't be sorry! And once again, thanks in advance for all that you do, and all that you will do

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