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10 Ways a Pocket Notebook Can Improve Your Life
Always keep one with you
1. Write down anything that upset your day, and how you will respond better in the future
No day is perfect. Our peace is always disrupted by something. I call it the noisy neighbor effect. It may not be a literal noisy neighbor, but it’s a rare day when your equilibrium isn’t thrown off at some point.
Take a moment at the end of each day to reflect. What was your noisy neighbor today? A set of misplaced keys? Heavy traffic made you late? Did your internet service go out?
Write it down. Then write down how you responded. Then write how you’ll react better in the future.
2. Grab ideas
Have a great idea? A crazy idea? A dull idea? A dumb idea? Write it down. It’s impressive how quickly those ideas fade from memory when we don’t put them in writing.
But don’t stop there. Take a moment sometime during the week to review all the ideas you wrote in your pocket notebook and do one of two things -
Sketch out a plan to implement the idea. Ready to make it happen? Great. Your pocket notebook is a perfect place to sketch out your plan for taking the idea from imagination to reality.
