Write It Down...

"It is challenging to be a student of your own life, your own future, your own destiny. Don’t trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down. Take the time to keep notes and to keep a journal." - Jim Rohn

In the last few years of my corporate life, I began jotting down thoughts, ideas, plans and feelings in various notebooks and paper systems. Since then, I’ve had periods where I write down everything, and periods where I write down very little, but if those notes were important, I have them somewhere, safely stored for future reference. I may have to rely on my memory for the first half of my life, but not so much for the second…