Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal.
Today I'd like to share a tool that I use every day. I learnt this from Jim Collins, one of my favourite teachers and hence I called it the JC log.
So it is a tool that helps you bring awareness to your emotional states each day in relation to your activities. I use a Google sheet and every day at the end of the day, I pop in the date, I log what I've done that day, certain activities that stand out to me. And then I log next to it the amount of creative hours, the amount of time that I've spent doing and creating things that I love and enjoy. And finally in the last column would be a rating between minus two to positive two, zero being neutral. And this is related to emotional state, how I felt overall that day. Two being really good, negative two being, I'm feeling like it's almost the end of the world.
I have been doing this for the past three years and I found it an amazing awareness piece for myself. That I'm able to then consider and see what activities in my life impact me in a negative way and over time that will allow me to then work out, how do I reduce or negate those activities all together? And vice versa, what activities give me joy.
Hope you have a play with this process and please do let me know and reach out if you have any feedback on this process or any questions.
Thank you all for listening.
