Benefits of keeping a Journal for your Career

Learning lessons from experiences

Whether it’s our first job or we have been working for couple of years, it’s always good to write down the major life lessons you got while working. We all make mistakes and we all learn from them but sometimes we tend to forget, it’s always beneficial to write them down. Good or bad, one should always write down and then reflect upon it later specially at these times when life is running so fast and we hardly remember things from previous day.

Venting Out (Privately)

Work is not easy, there is so much stress and pressure involved not to forget the office politics. It’s one thing to go out for drinks and bitch about your colleague or boss or talk to your near partner but there are times when you don’t want to share all those things with anyone not even your closed ones. Then there comes journals, writing your thoughts down, taking out the frustration and anger actually it’s one thing to talk about it but totally different when you write down it. Writing it down actually gives more perspective because then your mind is working on what actually happened and what are you feeling after the incident?

Notes from mentors or seniors

The art of growing in a career is always learning every day. There will always be a person who knows more than you and better than you, the process of understanding that by listening or following your mentor or senior path is what makes anyone grow not only in career but as a person too. So taking some notes in a handy pocket journal is a great habit to start. Now with availability of so many different kinds of journals online, one can find best suitable for them. You never know when an idea can strike and you might need some insight or it can be vice versa.

Keeping track of work progress

Work stationery online in India is changing at god’s speed because of its high demand, people are shifting from boring monthly planners to actually work tools that helps them motivate them or keep them on track. There are many new self-care journals that have launched to exactly help the working professionals be more organized, keep them on track mentally and physically hence improving their overall growth. Keeping journals is not only a hobby but have become an important part of work progress.