Whilst studying at Italia Conti it was a part of our termly routine to write a journal of how our course was going and also write technique logs designed to make us apply our focus to three subjects within our course and monitor our progress from the start to the end of the term. So this task is more of a refresh from my previous studies continuing now with my present studies in order to develop my professional practice.
With the use of smart phones there are so many programs we can use on a daily basis in order to log our thoughts, whether its making a note of an appointment in our calendars, reminders to alert us in the reminder app on an iPhone or there is a specific section for notes on a iPhone too.
I travel to work every day on the tube and whilst standing up on a hot sweaty central line every day I do find this time very useful for my own thoughts and how I’m feeling and also think about what I’m going to do with my day and like wise on the way home I reflect with how my day has gone, what has occurred and what I am going to do when I arrive home. So over the past few weeks I have found making the most of these two 20 minute journeys a day very useful in noting down events of my every day life and how I am doing. However, writing on my phone like this can be something discussed in terms of confidentiality. On ones iPhone nowadays notes can be saved on the phone itself, to Gmail and to iCloud and it has been known over the past few years that some of these programmes have been hacked for information. I personally save everything to my phone and to my e-mail as for the likes of iCloud you do have to pay for the extra memory you use to store your data. In terms of using and tracking my journal on an everyday basis I like the fact that it is saved to my phone but just incase it was to be accidentally deleted it is also set up to my Gmail where I can access it and have my own personal choice of publishing it or not.
However, not only do I think about my journal on the tube I am also one to have a very uneasy sleep pattern lets say… before bed at night if I’m not reading my book or watching television to distract my mind away from thoughts or things I need to do in life I won’t sleep a wink so i also keep a note book to the side of my bed just incase there is any form of notes I need to write down before bed but also during the night so subconsciously in my head because I have wrote it down I know I’m dealing with it and I will deal with it in the morning as sleep is also incredibly vital part of my daily routine.
Keeping a journal throughout the duration of this course I feel will be very useful to reflect on the journey I have come on from the start to the end of the course and I will also through the use of the journal be able to see the extent of what I have learnt and gained. I know this will also be seen on the blog however there is a limit to the amount you can write on a blog as you may not want to include each and very detail from ones private life. Furthermore keeping notes on my journey like this may also help me when commenting on other blogger's work being able to reference back to things I have covered myself and how I can aid and advise others in the process.
It has been 15 months since I have graduated College now so 15 month's since I have wrote a journal and I am finding the process very helpful so far and hopeful hit will continue to do so.... Stay tuned.
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