Writing Your Way To Clarity In Your Online Business
True confession. This is the second time I’ve written this post on writing your way to clarity and the second time I recorded my YouTube Video.
Even though my mantra this year is…
Business is easy when I take messy imperfect action.
I did it anyway and here is why.
Journaling to Clarity 🦄
Journaling to clarity was my topic this week that I felt called to talk about. I recorded the video during my blocked scheduled time and the next morning during my own journaling practice, my message from the day before just didn’t feel right. Something was missing, so what did I do.
I continued to write my way to clarity. I asked myself all the questions, why didn’t feel right. If I did it again what would I say differently? If I record it again, will I still feel integrity with my mantra for this year? The more it poured out the more I knew that I need to do it again.
Why journaling taps into your inner passion
How can it really be that powerful, it’s just writing stuff down? When you do what is called stream of consciousness journaling it taps into your inner passion. It doesn’t matter if you can read it, just get everything out of your head onto the piece of paper.
When I was laid off from my sales job. It was the first time in my life that I started to journal. This was long before I listened to anything about journaling.
I had way too many things going on in my head and it was the only thing that I found that cleared them all out. Little did I know that it has been coined steam of consciousness. It was just writing stuff down that was filling up my head.
That is a time of true self-discovery. At this time, I had A LOT of feelings that I needed to work through, more than I ever could have imagined. It helped me to heal buried emotions from childhood. It all came out, and that was good.
Through all the deep journaling it gave me the clarity that I needed. Once I became clear I stopped.
Until I began to feel like my wheels were spinning in my business. I headed back to my deep journaling to get all the thoughts out of my head.
Funny, when I started journaling it was on the things that I knew I didn’t want. As I was frustrated with the direction I saw myself headed.
This came to me from repeatedly attracting clients that I didn’t want. Because on the other side of the thing that you don’t want is the thing that you do want.
For me, it was really easy to pick out the things that drained my energy and didn’t bring out my best self.
But, now journaling is different for me.
Journaling is planning from the place of where I want to go
It’s writing out my dream week or my dream project. Future scripting what I’d like to bring into my life and business. It’s about becoming the person my future self loves.
Journaling can be as easy or difficult as you choose
If you’re thinking too much about it. I think journaling can become difficult. If you’re lost on where to start with journaling, here are a few clarity prompts to get you started.
The mack daddy of them all – Why do I want my work from home business to be successful? This is the thing that keeps you going when it gets hard.
What would my dream business be?
If I would be guaranteed to make money, what would I do?
Here is take two of my video. I’d love your questions.
Little Side Note
“Journal writing, when it becomes a ritual for transformation, is not only life-changing but life-expanding.” Jen Williamson
✁ Just a Snippet
Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪
- Writing bring out things that you didn’t even know were there.
- Start from what you don’t want if what you want seems difficult to come up with.
- Journaling is just asking yourself questions you’d ask your best friend if they were struggling to know what to do.
- What to know more about the stream of consciousness writing? Check out these two YouTube videos.