How to Design Your Life: 1 Life-Changing Journaling Habit for Achieving Your Goals

This year, we opted for a goals list!

We hope your start to the new year is going well! Many of us have great expectations for 2024! Some people have assembled a list of goals, while others have created beautifully crafted vision boards. In prior years, we created vision boards, but we opted for a goals list to design our life this year. Whatever form your goals take 2024 promises to be a year filled with endless possibilities for achieving them.

What are your top 5 goals for 2024? Take a moment to design your life, jot them down, and let's inspire each other to achieve our goals! #Goals2024 #DesignYourLife

We must also set aside time to get still, think, and create!

As we live this journey called life, we must be intentional. In addition to engaging in the work necessary to achieve our goals, we must also set aside time to get still, think, and create. I have learned that journaling is one of the best ways to do this. Many people overcomplicate journaling, making it time-consuming and thus difficult to incorporate daily. Journaling can take as little time as you would like. In fact, setting aside as little as 10 minutes a day to journal is significant for achieving your goals. As you journal, you become equipped to design your desired life while expressing gratitude for the many blessings you receive.

"Setting aside as little as 10 minutes daily to journal is significant."

James' Perspective

Journaling is my secret to self-awareness, organization, and purposeful living. It's all about the finer details, the little things that make a big difference. Let me take you on a journey through my journal, where I unlocked my true potential and paved the way for my dream career in collegiate football coaching.

At the ripe age of 46, I found myself at a crossroads. While I was thriving in the corporate world and making an even greater impact on young student-athletes with our non-profit organization, my heart yearned for something more – a career in college football coaching, a calling I couldn't ignore. My wife and I sat down, contemplating the next chapter of my life, and dove into action on paper first! I wrote down all I wanted to accomplish to achieve this dream. One was finishing my college degree. 

It wasn't an easy journey, but at almost 50, I boldly decided to return to college and complete my final semester, earning my Bachelor's Degree in Business. Little did I know how this degree would become the catalyst I needed to jumpstart a career I had long desired.  This degree came in handy as it was a requirement to be a college coach. 

"I get to live my dreams everyday." -Coach James

Reflecting on my path, it may seem like my transformation happened quickly to everyone else, but within the pages of my journal, I uncovered the true power of how I could design the life I always wanted through proper planning and dedication.

Now, I invite you to journal as I did, to explore your passions, set goals, and work tirelessly towards them. Just like my journal helped me realize my dream, it can do the same for you. Start today, and watch how self-awareness, purposeful planning, and unwavering determination pave the way for your success.

“These critical minutes empower us to focus, meditate, and gives us time to see in the spirit that which we desire in the natural.”

Mo's Perspective

As a young girl, I knew I was destined to be an entrepreneur and a lawyer, but I lacked the guidance to chart the path. I was determined, even though I didn't know precisely how to achieve these goals.

Then, in my early twenties, I had a revelation: to design my dream life, I only had to commit to designing my days. I realized that my days become weeks, weeks become months, and months become years – ultimately getting my desired life. So, you guessed it, I turned to journaling.

Every day, I began journaling the critical things in life:

• Things I was grateful for.

• Goals I set for that day.

• Things I was praying for.

• Manifestations of my previous prayers and affirmations.

These journals have become my treasured companions, a constant reminder of the power of planning, gratitude, and manifestation.

Through these journals, I've learned that my spoken and written words are the foundation for my life. I encourage you to activate your powerful pen, just as I have. By journaling daily, you can experience your transformation, starting today and paving the way for a life specially designed by you.

Our Dedication

We dedicated just 10 minutes a day to journaling, and it made all the difference. We prove that journaling doesn't require hours, but investing 10 minutes can help you design the life your heart truly longs for daily. If you neglect to create the life you desire, you may end up living one shaped by your circumstances.

Like many who are reading right now, we, too, had humble beginnings experiencing poverty and being surrounded by mediocrity.  It could have easily trapped us in a cycle of life by forfeit. Instead, we exemplify the power to use our written words to live a life by design.

We challenge you to start journaling as we have chosen to do. Take 10 precious minutes each day. You can start transforming your life and realizing your dreams like we have. Give it a try, and you might be amazed by the immediate results and the incredible long-term outcomes it can bring. 

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Get the Edge and Journal Our Way

I know many of you have never journaled this way, and it can seem challenging to get started. We have taken our personal experiences with journaling and designed an easy-to-follow guide using the exact template we use daily called The Edge's Live Grow Reflect Journal. This is the same journal that helped us earn $100,000 last year in our spare time and so much more. 

Our Live Grow Reflect Journal is a powerful tool that seamlessly integrates into your daily life. It provides structured sections for affirmations, gratitude, tracking abundance, prayers, manifestation moments, and micro journaling. This journal is your companion in achieving intentional living and personal growth, allowing you to capture your thoughts, feelings, and aspirations in one place.

Whether you choose our journal or find one of your own, we want to challenge you to nurture a practice that helps you design your desired life rather than falling victim to a life by forfeit. Let journaling be the catalyst for bringing your goals and aspirations to life today.

CLICK HERE to discover more about The Edge's Live Grow Reflect Journal.

As always, giving you THE EDGE!