THE POWER OF WRITING THINGS DOWN

Has anyone noticed that when you put pen to paper, more things happen than when you simply keep them in mind? 

Be it To Do lists, Shopping Lists, Checklists of things you need to tell you car mechanic or your doctor, routines you need to establish, things you would like to do, goals you’d like to accomplish, whatever it is, having it down on paper seems to unleash miraculous forces that come together to make things happen.

Putting things on paper also frees your mind from having to remember. You can utilise precious energies and valuable memory space for things that are really useful and important to improving your life. It is true that mind-games like trying to remember numbers and names and lists may help to keep your memory sharp but there are more fun and rewarding ways to do it as well, ways that help you further your goals in life.

When you pen down lists, ideas and goals, you don’t forget something important. This saves a lot of time, energy and undue stress. Many times have I returned home from a shopping trip with everything in my bag except for what I set out to get, simply because I did not pen down a list or if I did take the trouble to do it, I forgot to check it at the store. This had me rushing back to the store, trying to look cool, calm and collected in front of the cash clerks or I would go to a different store, farther away or simply do without (not a nice feeling!). Quite hilarious now, in hindsight, but not at the moment when I needed the stuff and was pressed for time.

Our mind processes tens of thousands of thoughts daily, if we were to manage the quality and direction of these thoughts in a more conscious and intentional way, we can move faster towards the life we dream of. Rich, abundant, Joyous, Vibrant, Stress free…..

Despite having jotted down the things I would like to do and my goals in life at various points I did not always follow the plan or keep myself steadily on course. ‘Life Happens’ was my excuse and time and again I would find myself having to start the goal setting process all over again. 

All because I would allow myself to get distracted by the course of events in my life. Believe me getting distracted easily is not fun, even if it seems like fun at that particula moment and can you get to pay a very heavy price further down the line. Time moves on and suddenly we wake up to the fact that we have accomplished a bit less than we had dreamed of.

I would chance upon old notebooks with my goals jotted down neatly and I realised that I had somehow managed to achieve most of them, perhaps not in the time frame planned or not exactly in the way imagined, but still, most of them had turned into reality despite the distractions. The one regret I do have is not having put ‘Become Rich’ ever on my Goals List. I am correcting that. 

Another recent instance showed me the power of penning things down. A few months ago in a bout of inspiration I had jotted down a list of Fun tasks I would like to do. I taped it to a wall where I promptly forgot to look at it (working on eradicating this habit) and saw it again as I was looking for wall space to tape my new Babysteps to Wellness checklist. ‘I need to get down to doing these’, I was telling myself when I realised that I had already accomplished five upon the eleven listed! Not bad for a gal who in the meantime, has been travelling quite a bit, had her home burgled and struggled with a few personal issues.

It hit me again with force that when I jot things down, things start to “happen”. This seems to work best when you write things down onto paper, somehow different from typing them into an electronic device. There is something about the forming of letters by hand that seems to burn them into our brain.

This also brings me to the reflection that if I were to really concentrate my energies in keeping my goals in sight, planning them with a realistic timeline and keeping distractions under control, it won’t be long before I see miracles, more miracles, bigger, grander, more awe-inspiring miracles in my life. 

I am working on a lot of fronts in my life and at times I get very distracted still from my chosen path but I believe that I will get there. We all will. Thank you all for being part of my Journey and God Bless!

PS: ‘BE IMMENSELY RICH’ is on my list. The more you have, the more you have to give!