Write Your Business Goals. Track Your Progress.

Having a business journal is one of the most effective ways to keep track of your progress, follow your ideas, analyze your actions, and create strategies for your future success.

Eunice, the founder of Fast Start Business Services, uses journals to write business goals, weekly to-do lists, monthly goals, and to evaluate past successes and failures. Journaling is a key to her success as it allows her to quickly write fleeting thoughts (ex: the next best strategic move or new ideas).

We recommend journaling (purposeful writing) for the following reasons:

• Journaling helps to keep your thoughts organized.

• Journaling improves your writing abilities.

• You can set short and long-term goals - and monitor your results.

• You can record ideas quickly so that you are less likely to forget them.

• Journaling relieves stress and helps you prioritize your steps.

• You can reflect and think about your business's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis).

• Journaling helps to improve your memory.

• Journaling inspires creativity.

• Journaling helps you become more accountable.