How many times did something happen during your work day today that was worth celebrating? Did you finally hear back from that white whale? Did you complete a project before the deadline? Maybe you simply reached your goal of drinking eight glasses of water? What if setting aside a special ritual that included writing down these wins could actually boost your success?
By dedicating even a small amount of time each day to a personalized journaling ritual centered around your business, you’ll create a routine that not only recognizes the victories won by yourself, your team, and your company, but according to the Law of Attraction, you’ll actually magnetize more wins your way by doing so. Let’s explore how it works.
The Power of Celebrating Small Wins at Work
It’s no secret that taking small steps toward a bigger goal can help you reach that goal more easily. By breaking down your big goal into easier, smaller goals, you are able to experience a sense of achievement more often which motivates you to keep moving forward.
By documenting your smaller wins, you are forced to take time out of your day for yourself. This little reward can boost your happiness, because you’ve shown yourself care. Having a dedicated place to write down your small wins also gives you a reason to go back and review how awesome you are, whenever you might need to remind yourself of that fact.
Why Journaling Matters
Have you ever wondered why there are so many journals in the stationery aisle at the IRL store? Or why there are so many journaling and habit tracking apps in the app store? It’s not because journal makers and app developers know something we don’t. It’s because journaling is widely known to serve as a powerful tool for self-reflection and personal growth. Your journal is a safe space to reflect on your day, organize your thoughts, get clear on your goals, and process events from your daily life. With all those benefits, imagine what adding a section to your journal specifically centered around achievements can do for you.
Personalized journaling rituals are exactly that, your rituals and nobody else’s. Everyone has different lived experiences which is why it’s important to tailor your journaling rituals to your needs. In the context of celebrating small wins at work, these personalization tactics can be approached in the context your company. For example, a team member who leads customer service might experience daily wins that are much different than a team member who manages web development. Either way, each of their wins matter.
Setting the Scene: A Personalized Journaling Ritual
The hardest part of starting a journaling ritual is actually starting one. Let us provide you with some general journaling tips to help you begin.
Choosing Your Platform
The first thing you’ll need to do start a personalized journaling ritual is decide on where you want to journal. Maybe those journaling and habit tracking apps we mentioned earlier work perfectly for your busy day-to-day routine. Maybe you’re old school and love writing with pen and paper because you don’t get to do so very much throughout the day. Or maybe you’re like us, and typing is your flow state. For that, you could use tools like Notion or Google Docs, or even Text Edit. Whatever you choose, be sure to customize it to your liking using colors, fonts, or special pens.
Establishing a Routine
After starting a new journal, the second hardest part of a personalized journaling ritual is staying consistent. There are a lot of websites out there that will try to tell you the best routine for journaling, but the truth is: only you know what works for you. You might prefer voice-noting your entries while taking your morning walk. Others might prefer to reflect on the day’s experiences at night before bed. The way we see it: as long as you’re doing it as often as possible for you, then you’re doing it.
Celebrate Small Wins At Work
Whether you’re starting a brand new journal or continuing an existing one, challenge yourself to use some of the space to celebrate your wins. It’s so much easier to let everything out in a journal that upset us or that we found challenging. However, taking time to write down at least one small win with each entry can be a beacon of hope and happiness in your process of reflection.
The Benefits of Regular Journaling
Just like drinking those eight glasses of water per day can contribute numerous benefits to your daily life, so does journaling. Here are some exciting things you an look forward to:
Empower Yourself
By focusing your journal only on your challenges, you’re reiterating to yourself every day that your life is challenging, and challenging only. Imagine a year from now, going back into your journal and only reading negative entries. Do your future self a favor: be honest about your day and don’t ignore the good stuff. You deserve that.
Stay Focused
Considering the Law of Attraction—surrounding yourself with good things brings more good things—taking the time to celebrate small wins means you’re thinking about those small wins. The more you focus on them, the more you’ll attract them to you. If your small wins are connected to a larger goal, you’ll be focused on reaching that goal with baby steps.
Analyzing Growth
Each daily entry, or multiple entries per day eventually build up to an entire year of entries. How cool is that?! Even after one week, you can look back on the small wins that you achieved, and can even celebrate them again. By reviewing your wins over time, you’ll start to recognize patterns in when and how you achieve them, empowering you to achieve them again and again.
Tips for Journaling Success
Since we know dedication is half the battle, here are some easy ways you can stay motivated to document in your journal regularly.
- Make it Easy: One of our favorite journaling methods is bullet journaling. That’s right—you don’t even have to write down complete sentences. Simply list out one-word thoughts and soon you’ll have an entire entry of thoughts. You can always go back and expand on them at a later date. More of a visual person? Draw your entries. It’s all up to you.
- Be Real: Since your journal is yours and no one else’s, it’s important that you use the safe space of a journal to be real with yourself. This will allow you to stay authentic to yourself when reviewing goals and experiences.
- Celebrate the Small Stuff: Literally, responding to one email when you’ve been having a hard time doing so IS. A. WIN. and it’s worth writing it down.
- Stay Flexible: Don’t forget that your personalized journaling rituals are your rituals. Feel free to switch up any part of your practice, including your chosen medium, writing utensil, or time of day that you write your entries if these are not working for you. Ultimately, this practice should be a part of your life that works, not one that you dread.
Our Personalized Journaling Rituals Dedicated to Celebrating Small Wins
At the start of this article, when we asked you to reflect on any small wins that happened today, what did you think of? Write it down right now! For those of you who couldn’t think of anything, make a promise to yourself to embrace more awareness around your small wins tomorrow.
We believe that celebrating wins at work through personalized journaling rituals can boost success. Our approach involves collaborating with clients to create a journaling system that aligns with their unique needs and goals. Imagine what would happen if everyone in your organization had eyes on all the wins won throughout the company each day?
Get in Touch!
Whether you’re already on a roll or need an extra boost to get started, we would love reignite you, your team, and your company by creating a personalized journaling ritual plan. Not only will we give you our secret sauce to do so, we’ll also help you keep track of your wins, give you easy ways to stick with your ritual, and send you reports about them.
Let’s talk!
Embracing Your Journey
Even if you’re not ready to start working with us, we highly encourage you to start a practice of celebrating you, your team, and your company’s small wins. Writing them down can boost your success.
By adopting a practice centered around acknowledging what you and your team are doing well, you will cultivate a mindset that is empowering.
Start today, we dare you.
