As I said in the first article in this series, when you enter
the world of event planning, the one thing you realize very
quickly is that flexibility is a necessity. Your event planning
software will need to track appointments, events, journaling or
diary entries, projects, and to-do lists. In this article I will
discuss the benefits of journaling. Before we talk about the
event planning software journaling feature, you need to know
that journaling or diary writing is very important; however, the
importance may not be readily apparent from an event planner's
perspective. Let's look at just two benefits:
1. Your ideas can flow inhibited onto the page. Let your
uninhibited thoughts lead you. Since you don't have to proofread
your writing, your real feelings come out about your day. This
is where you will be able to uncover how you are feeling about
the people and things of your event planning career. This will
also allow you to realistically see where you need to make
changes to enrich you life.
2. When you journal you end up writing what you need to know.
You will discover valuable insights about yourself that will
allow you become more successful as an event planner. You will
be able to lean on insights about yourself to guide you into
more productive work within your niche. Remember you are unique
and knowing more about yourself will undoubtedly show you that
you are strongest in a niche within your event planning niche.
The most important features of your event planning software in
regards to journaling should be your ability to make flexible
entries and your ability to view an entire month of entries in
your event planner software at once. Your software should be
able to provide you with a text entry area to write your journal
entries. This will serve two purposes:
1. This monthly view of your journal will allow you to find
certain journal entries quickly at a glance.
2. This monthly view will allow you to see from a monthly
perspective how consistent you have been at making journal
entries.
Event planning software in the management of journals can be a
great help in this process provided you have the minimum
features above. There are other great features such as
multi-category journals. The 2 features above are essential to
productive journal management for your event planning software.
(c) Copyright 2005 Olan Butler All Rights Reserved
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Olan Butler is the Chief Architect of BHO Technologists, a
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