Going Within Monthly Guide - January
Free Notion template for your projects!
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Welcome to January’s Going Within Guide
In this guide, I will be sharing a copy of a Notion template that I’ve created for managing all of my projects.
I discovered Notion in September, just before I moved my blog to Substack and it has literally changed my life! Without it, there is no way I would have been able to write an essay every week, create a 5-module self-study course, and still manage other aspects of my life. Notion has truly transformed my productivity, especially considering that I accomplished all of this in just three months!
Perhaps you’re already using Notion, or something similar. But, if you’re anything like I used to be, the following might resonate:
You save Instagram posts because they ignite a spark in you that you want to remember and return to, but never actually do.
You highlight text from books, write down quotes, save links into your phone, and bookmark pages that you will one day need to refer back to. However, you don't always get the chance to revisit them.
You feel overwhelmed by the accumulation of information in your phone notes and other apps, yet despite this, you still find yourself saving more and more.
You have book pages turned down to re-visit later, notebooks and google docs filled with valuable notes and insights, but you never seem to get around to organising them all.
You hope that one day everything will suddenly fall into place and you will be ready to use your information for a valuable project.
I was exactly the same.
I wrote all my books, blogs, course notes, ideas, poems in my iPhone notes, a notebook, and google documents. Even when I hand wrote my pieces, I would still transfer them into my iPhone notes.
I have hundreds of saved Instagram posts, tweets, and pins that resonated with me and moved me in some way: a yoga flow, a quote, a sunset. However, I haven't revisited them in years. Why? Because I don't have the time, and when I do find some spare time, I feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content. Perhaps, at a deeper level, my future self was choosing everything for me like a hidden vision board, which is why my current self feels so overwhelmed!
Admittedly, my book writing system was quite good. I would start a folder of the book title, then try to sub-title each note with whatever section of the book it was intended for. But it still became overwhelming.
Until I started using Notion.
This guide will provide you with a copy of the Notion template I created which has changed my life. It will also give you some guideposts for using Notion, as well as a system for saving your notes, research, insights, links, and ideas even if you chose not to use Notion!
I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me!