BHASKAR JYOTI BORAH “You must be the change that you want to see in the world” - Mahatma Gandhi Change is the l...
BHASKAR JYOTI BORAH
“You
must be the change that you want to see in the world”
- Mahatma
Gandhi
Change is the law of
nature. Nothing in this world remains static. In our lives also we desire
change. But change must be sought to achieve something better. We desire to
achieve many things in our lives. But mere desires will not give any result. We
have to work towards its achievement. Then only the desired objects will come
to our possession. A Diary is such a tool which if effectively
utilized can bring to us whatever we desire.
Many people use a Diary
for maintaining a record of their personal life. They use to write their
achievements, goals, financial transactions, financial planning’s and host of
other things. A diary has a potentiality to achieve anything and everything for
you in your life. Whatever you desire in your life, you can achieve it with the
help of your diary. But how can we make it happen? How can we become the change
that we expect to become which has become boundlessly difficult for us ? How an
ordinary diary can become an extraordinary tool for our self development and
goal achievement? Following are the answers:
1. By writing a diary regularly
you give yourself an opportunity to always look back what you have done
throughout a day, month or year. It allows you to self reflect and to discover
the things that you want to change or need in your life.
2. You can call it a personal
journal for self discovery, a financial journal, a spiritual journal, a health
journal or a life journal. You need to develop the ability to regularly write
down your thoughts, events, plans, challenges, frustrations, loves and
successes in one diary because it will become your greatest teacher about who
you are in the world and why your life is the way that it is.
3. A diary truly is the hidden key
to personal growth and self-discovery. The sooner you start to write a diary,
the quicker you will find this out for yourself. Socrates said “know thyself.”
Without self knowledge we live in denial.
4. You can write out
what is going on in your head and your heart and express it on paper. In a way
it will enable you to help you understand yourself better which is very
important to create your destiny. It also helps in reducing stress.
5. Keeping a personal diary or
journal will put you in control of your life. Many times we believe things
happen to us and we have no control or we just go through life without any
thoughts of working towards something. With a journal we get a clear insight
into where we are going and where we have come from, giving us an opportunity
to change our path if we don’t like what we see and experience.
6. Your diary will help you
discover what’s important to you in life. Just write down the thoughts,
ideas and information pertaining to your areas of interest. Doing this will
help you identify your goals, focus on what you want to experience in life,
work towards what’s important to you, what you value and what you truly want to
achieve. Most importantly it helps you to achieve your goals.
7. You will experience tremendous
personal development if you start to write your own diary or journal. The best
thing you can do for your future prosperity and personal growth is to write in
your journal on a regular basis.
8. Your diary will provide you
with structure when you feel stressed, help you deal with change and give you a
sense of accomplishment and discipline when you manage to write in it
regularly. See it as a tool for enlightenment not a burden and something as a
compulsion. The more you write in it the more your love for writing and
expression will develop and the more you will want to do it from your own
choice and desire rather than compulsion.
9. It helps to harness your
creativity. Regular writing can help you learn to process and communicate
complex ideas effectively.
10. Regular
writing can apply to more than just work, too. Keeping a journal is a great way
to build better habits, as it forces you to be aware of your actions and
behaviour.
11. A diary
provides you the knowledge of your direction. It helps you to know where you
are heading and how you are maintaining your direction to your destination.
Thus it helps to stay organized.
12. It
enables you to maintain your day to day record and hence store the information
for you. You can find any record of previous activity that will add to your
efficiency.
Objectives of writing a diary:
An objective of writing
a diary may be anything that you want to choose. It is based upon your demand.
Whatever results you are expecting from your life, your objectives of writing a
diary must correspond to it. You want something from your life but you are
doing things differently and believe in some other things then you cannot get
your desired results. Have good faith in yourself and your demand from your
life to get what you want from it. Otherwise you will be pulled in different
directions and you will be reaching nowhere. Therefore before you determine
your objectives of writing a diary make it sure the objectives that you set are
uniform and not contradictory. And then you will be surprised to see the tremendous
power of keeping and writing a diary in your life. Your achievement will become
more. You will become totally a different person. There will be virtually
nothing in this world that you cannot achieve with the help of your diary. You
will understand yourself better, you will be able to develop good relationship
with people, your vision will be enlarged and you will come closer to
your goals everyday. All planning, dreams and desires are
nothing until and unless you write it down. A diary therefore plays a prominent
role that will enable you to remain focused to your goals.
Set your goals first:
If you don’t know what
do you want from your life, then it makes no difference what you get from life.
It will be a life of no directions, spirit and energy. If you don’t know where
you want to go, it doesn’t make any sense where do you reach. Therefore take
control of your life. Don’t waste it for nothing. Make a list of all the things
that you desire leaving nothing that you want to accomplish from your life. But
remember don’t list opposing goals with opposite beliefs. All the goals that
you will set should be uniform or follow the same direction, if you virtually
want to achieve them. Therefore make the choices wisely.
Write down the objectives:
After you set your
goals, sit down to write the objectives of writing a diary. The objectives may
be to :
· Development
of your personality
· Enhancement
of knowledge
· Increasing
your income or earning potentiality
· Spiritual
success
· Good
relationship
· Peace
and Happiness
· Business
success etc.
Things to do List on a daily basis:
When you set your goals
and your objectives, you can choose the process. Process implies the activities
that will draw you closer to your goal. Write down every single activity that
needs to be carried out to realize your goal and make a list of the most
important activities that you can follow on a daily basis. That ‘Things to do
list on daily basis’ should be a part of your diary. Whatever you choose to do,
you have to be honest to follow it without procrastinating. If you keep things postponing,
your success or achieving the goals will be delayed.
Activities for the Day:
‘Things to do list on a
daily basis’ contain the list of the things that you will practice every day
without fail. You have to mark on your diary that you have successfully carried
out the process for the day or not. Apart from the regular process you have to
decide some activities for each and every day with priorities. Every day
determine your daily activities carefully by setting your priorities. Note down
in your diary all the important activities in the morning that you are
going to accomplish during the day. Every day do something innovative to reach
your goal and write it on your diary. You will get sense, direction and more
concentration to achieve your goal.
OBSERVANCE OF DISCIPLINE IN WRITING A DIARY:
We are anxious to
improve our circumstances but are unwilling to improve ourselves. When we are
willing to improve ourselves, we do not resort to any practices or activities
on a daily basis and therefore the effort does not bear any fruit. It
annihilates our will to bring certain positive changes in our life and to
accomplish more goals and achieve more successes. If we practice something on a
daily basis, it becomes our habit; and habit creates destiny. Our mind will
become a tool to achieve our goal if we develop the right habit. Therefore self-control
and self-discipline only can lead us to our desired goals. Writing a diary will
enable oneself to remain conscious about one’s goals. A person who writes his
diary regularly become conscious of the activities that he use to carry out
throughout the day than a person who is not conscious where his life is leading
him.
Discipline to be
observed:
1. Regularity:
The first and foremost discipline required
in writing a diary is regularity. If we do not write it regularly than we will
be unable to bring the required improvements in us.
2. Punctuality:
We must
fix a proper and convenient time to write the diary. The most convenient time
is before going to bed, when we are free from all the activities of the day.
3. Perseverance:
Once decided to write the diary,
perseverance is required so that we remain consistent in our effort unless and
until it becomes our habit.
4. Honesty:
We have to be honest while writing a diary.
We must not misrepresent our thoughts and activities. We must record everything
as it is. Otherwise no change is possible.
5. Resolves:
Resolves need to be taken to ensure
determination. Without resolves there can’t be a determination. Regularity,
punctuality, perseverance, honesty will follow determination in writing a
diary. Maintain personal integrity. Fulfil your commitments to achieve
your goals with the help of your diary.
“As you live your days, so you craft your life”
- Robin Sharma
Resolve it today to maintain and
write a diary regularly. Make it a habit. Unleash your hidden potentialities
with the help of your diary. Find out your goals. Work for achieving your goals
and achieve it with the help of your daily activities that you determine for
yourself consciously. Record your progress in the diary. Take the
first steps now, immediately!
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