The Three R's of the Decade Journal - Day 79

Remember to do the 3R’s sometime today. Usually, I write mine after dinner, but before heading off to bed for the night.  Simply write a brief paragraph of two to four sentences on page 79 of your Decade Journal, which will be used each year for March 19th.

• Review 
• Think through the things that you have done this very normal day. What was different today? What happened that involved choices or meetings with people? Select the details you are going to write.
• Record 
• Briefly record the two or three things that are noteworthy. These are things that may reflect YOUR personal values and goals. I might record that my sunflowers first opened a blossom, but you may record that your dog got their stitches out. You may have had a chance meeting with an old colleague, or cleaned out the shed. Record the things that don’t happen every day, but are different than the usual routine. These are usually the things that are the “marker” events in our minds and memories. 
• Reflect 
• Whether you know it or not, you operate with a set of personal objectives, values, and goals. Perhaps you haven’t thought it out yet, to be able to clearly vocalize it. But, it is there. And one of the things you will do over the next few months is to “think it out.” Reflecting on your day’s events combined with your own personal objectives, values and goals is the best way to adjust our direction and efforts of our lives.

Indeed, we are living through tumultuous and historic events. Contemporaneous notes will be valued both to refresh your memory and to document WHAT is happening NOW, in your home and community. Of course, (perhaps to a lesser degree) it will be valued later by your posterity.

Your Decade Journal will be a precious personal document as the years go by.
I encourage you to start yours today. 

To read the basic overview here, to help you start yours read this introduction:
My suggestion of information to enter? 

1. A brief synopsis of today’s events, 
2. The names of people with whom you met and engaged,
3. The work you accomplished, 
4. The challenges and events that occurred,
5. Include your genuine reaction to things, but it is definitely better to blunt any anger, rage or vicious points of view or opinions. Just saying…. If you couldn’t say it on the front page of the New York Times, it is probably best not write it anywhere.  

I encourage you to start YOUR Decade Journal as soon as possible.  The things we regret are later are usually what we DIDN'T do, not the things we did.  The year 2020 is an incredible opportunity to actually create YOUR Decade Journal.

Whether you use a digital method, or a series of notebooks, the fact that each day you doing the 3R’s:  Review, Record, and Reflect  as they are tools to help you to:

• Improve your life, by unconsciously moving toward your objectives and goals
• Make better decisions, because your brain has consciously recorded and analyzed ongoing actions
• Accomplish more of YOUR goals, because you have applied time and thought to it. 

My personal objective was to be able to see (on one single page) the events that had happened over the previous multiple years. I had hoped that I could fit a span of 10 years in one of these 500 page journals.

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