It was over 500 pages - a beast of a book. My initial version had a whole year’s worth of tracking. It was a fantastic investment in my sanity - and fun fact - it turned out that the seller was a listener of the podcast! How Much to Include? After wrestling with Microsoft Word with only moderate levels of success, I turned to Fiverr for help. Formattingįormatting the journal pages was the biggest challenge. You'll also receive my best side hustle tips and weekly-ish newsletter. Steps and Challenges in the Creation Process

Then I wrote an introduction and a “how to use this journal” guide and explanation. Here’s what some of the common interior pages look like. Challenging yourself with 2-4 micro habits to do each day.Naming your top 1-3 priorities for the next day the night before, and tracking what you got done.Setting short-term “sprint” goals (rather than quarterly or annual goals).Determining and tracking your key performance indicators (KPIs).The Progress Journal would bring them all into one place and give me a physical reminder to keep on my desk. Some of the tracking was digital and some was analog. The basic structure of The Progress Journal centers on 5 key habits I personally use to feel more effective, excited, and satisfied with work (and life).Īnd even though I said I’d never consistently kept a journal, these were all things I did off and on - but in different times and different places. “Writing” the Bookįor creating a “blank” book, it sure took longer than I expected to get this thing out the door! It would become a helpful evergreen tool to refer people to.Īnd fourth, I was itching to publish a new book on Amazon since it had been a couple years since Buy Buttons came out. Third, productivity is a common theme on Side Hustle Nation, so a product related to helping people become more effective would be a natural fit. Such a product would be simple and inexpensive to test.

That meant no costly bulk orders or exhaustive crowdfunding campaigns. Second, I saw my friend Rob Cubbon posting about selling paperback notebooks using Amazon’s KDP Print print-on-demand service. Those included tracking daily micro habits, gratitude journaling, and working on specific “sprint goals.” (Like creating and filming my free credit card rewards course, for example.) Like many of my projects, a few planets came into alignment around the same time.įirst, I was re-energized by several beneficial practices following a month-long vacation this summer. So what inspired me to create and launch The Progress Journal last month?

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