Selfmade
Journal
The Selfmade Journal
90 Days to Build a Life You Own
Five minutes in the morning and five at night, for 90 days, across all nine parts of a life: faith, family, friends, health, money, work, mind, time and purpose.
Paperback · 168 pages · 6 × 9 in · Undated, start any day
Why a journal
Most lives just happen. Build yours on purpose.
The job that came along. The friends who lived nearby. The health you only notice once it slips. Most of us never sit down and decide how we want to live. We just react, one day at a time.
Self-made people do it differently. Not just with money. With everything. The Selfmade Journal turns that into a simple daily practice you can keep.
- Design your 90 days. Rate all nine parts of your life, choose three to focus on, set a target for each and plan for what’s most likely to get in your way.
- Three small daily habits you’ll tick off every night.
- 90 daily pages, each with its own idea and question, a morning plan and an evening check-in.
- 13 week planners, 12 weekly reviews and 2 checkpoints to re-rate your life and adjust your targets.
- A Day 90 review, a letter to the person who started, and a plan for your next 90.
A look inside
Four pages from the journal
| Day | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Habit 1 | |||||||
| Habit 2 | |||||||
| Habit 3 | |||||||
| Score |
| Part of life | Day 1 | Wk 4 | Wk 8 | Day 90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faith | ||||
| Family | ||||
| Friends | ||||
| Health | ||||
| Money | ||||
| Work | ||||
| Mind | ||||
| Time | ||||
| Purpose |
How it works
Ten minutes a day. Ninety days.
Design
Rate the nine parts of your life, choose three, set your targets and habits.
Daily pages
One idea, one question, a plan for the day and a check-in at night.
Weekly review
Track your habits, score your week and plan the next one.
Checkpoints
Re-rate your life and decide what to keep, change or drop.
Day 90
Look back at the whole journey and set up your next 90.
Why it works
Built on what helps people follow through
Plans with a time and a place
Across 94 studies, people who made if-then plans were clearly more likely to follow through than people who only set a goal.
Writing down your progress
Across 138 studies, monitoring progress made people more likely to reach their goals, especially when they recorded it.
Facing the obstacle
Picturing the goal, then the obstacle inside you, then a plan for it, improved goal attainment.
One missed day is fine
New habits took a median of 66 days to become close to automatic, and a single missed day didn’t undo them.
Full references are printed inside the journal.
Coming soon
The paperback is on its way to Amazon.
Paperback, 168 pages, undated so you can start any day.
