What Should You Write About in Journal For Your Goals
GoalsOnTrack comes with a feature where you can write journal entries for your goals. Some people may wonder, “What should I write about in my goal journal?”
Well, this is all up to you. There are many things you can write about in there. For me, I don’t write much about my goals, but I do write one thing in it pretty much on a daily basis. That is, my goals themselves. Just all my active goals.
Everyday, I write them out in the journal what my long term, mid term and short term goals are. That’s it. I occasionally try to phrase the same goal a bit differently, but generally it’s just repetition of writing down all my goals every day.
I’ve been doing this for about two years, and I think it has done wonders for me. At least there are a few benefits of doing this from my own experience.
- 1. Writing down my goals on a daily basis helps me remember them. Believe or not, many people fail to accomplish their goals, only because they have forgotten about them after a little while.
- 2. Writing down my goals helps me think about if they’re indeed what I want. Strangely sometimes we set goals that aren’t actually what we want for ourselves, but rather someone else’s wishes, society’s conditioning, etc. Writing them out gives me a chance to really reflect on them and decide for myself if it’s something I truely want to accomplish.
- 3. Writing down my goals helps me clear my mind and block out all other distractions that seem to pile up more and more on top of my goals. Without doing this, I usually find my goals tend to slip beneath more and more unimportant things.
- 4. Writing down my goals helps me subconciously find ways to achieve them. I don’t know exactly how it works, but I just find myself achieve far more goals that I’ve been writing down on a regular basis than all other things I once set for myself to accomplish but never get to write them down.
So that’s how goal journal has helped me. I believe if you start writing down your goals on a regular basis, you will also reap the benefits as I did.
Tutorial Video: How to Track Goal Progress
I’ve created a short tutorial video to help you understand how to track your goal progress with GoalsOnTrack. Please check it out below.
If you have more questions regarding goal tracking, please let me know, or check our help page at http://www.goalsontrack.com/index/help, where you will find FAQs and GOT user manual.
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How to track goal reviewing and planning tasks
For many of us, we have tasks that are related to reviewing goals and progress, and perhaps planning new tasks etc. These tasks may not belong to any of the goals you’ve already setup, but you may still want to be able to track them. Here is a simple way to track this type of tasks.
1. Create a goal just for this purpose, such as “Goal: Keep my goals on track”, or “Goal: Review and Plan”, etc.
2. Add all tasks that are related to reviewing or planning activities under this goal.
3. You may even want to set these tasks as recurring for once or twice per week.
Here is a sample of how I’ve set it up:
How to enter subjective(manual) progress percentage?
Some users requested for a feature to manually enter the goal progress for a completed task. Actually it’s quite simple now.
When you set a goal, leave the “Progress Metric” field blank, or enter “100%”, which is now the default. Then whenever you complete a task, you can enter a percentage number for that task, as shown in the screenshot below.
However, remember the goal’s “Progress Metric” doesn’t have to be percentage. It can be anything of a numeric value, and the goal’s progress percentage will still be automatically tracked.
