This Game-Changer App Has Radically Changed My Life (For The Better)

Knowing what I need to do from day to day has always been a struggle for me because, what most people don't know about me is, I've experienced numerous severe head traumas throughout my life.

The first incident when I was roughly 5 years old broke my face, split open my skull down the center of my forehead, and broke my neck when my head became a ping pong ball between the back seat and the middle column of a late 70's model car after the driver slammed on the breaks in a head on collision with another vehicle.

Along with the countless other incidents that cracked open my head.

While I still enjoy a photographic memory, needless to say, my day to day memory is pretty shot.

If you've ever watched the movie with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, "50 First Dates," you can get an idea of what day to day life is like for me.

Thankfully for me, it's not as bad as Drew's character, however, it's not far from either.

There are things I need to do at the end of each day for tomorrow so when tomorrow arrives, I know what I'm doing (and sometimes where I'm at physically because I love traveling).

You've no doubt heard the phrase, "out of sight, out of mind." And that is exactly what everything digital is to me.

You see, in the physical world, whatever I've done that day is still there when I wake up the next day. Which becomes a reminder in itself if I've not finished whatever it is.

Once I shut down my electronic devices, everything I done that day shuts down with it and if I forget to write in my journal what all I did and where I left off - well, it's as if I've not done anything because I won't remember come tomorrow.

And even if I do remember to write in my journal - there have been times I've been so tired that when I put it away, I don't remember where I put it the next day.

(Feel free to laugh at that because yes, as bad as that is, it is pretty funny).

Now, like most people these days, I also spend a lot of time on my mobile device.

So finding something that I can

1. remember to use
2. remember to open up the next day and
3. help me keep up with everything I am needing to do across numerous projects I have going on at any given time as a business owner

has been like trying to find the holy grail.Which, ladies and gents, I am happy to say I have found.

Over the years, I've tried soooo many planner and productivity apps only to end up unistalling them because they just didn't cut it for me - even Goggle Calendar fails me more often than not.

I needed an app that would have a widget that I could add a view on my homescreen so that it'd be the first thing I saw when I unlocked my phone to use it.

It had to be a planner with journal elements so I could write my daily recording.

It had to have check list elements that would automatically move unchecked items forward to the next day.

This not only helps me stay focused on day to day tasks (ones I've finished and one's I haven't yet), it also helps me stay focused on my monthly and yearly goals.

It had to be customizable because cookie cutter planners just don't include the specific things I measure and keep track of.

And it had to be free because I'm not going to pay for an app only to realize it doesn't even help at all and I won't use it after day 1.

Guys, I've tried so many options over the years that it was quite depressing because each day I'd have this nagging feeling like I had things to do but I just could not remember what they were.

Believe me, it's a recipe for depression - which is something I've lived with my entire life because not being able to remember day to day things and knowing your on your own and there's no one to really support you results in feeling incredibly helpless and like you just can't do anything to move forward in life.

In short, it frickin sucks!

Which is why I am soooo unbelievably happy and grateful that I've recently found this app because now I have access to something I can have on my phone and view on my homescreen everyday (which is what the featured image is above)

The app is called Custom Journal send its seriously a game changer for me.

What I love is that it has several templates you can use right out the gate and the best part is you can customize both the template itself, as well as the questions/sections.

It has checklists, free text, routines, habits, and a bunch of other things that make it my all time favorite app, seriously..

What I absolutely love the most is I can have access to my full journal entry in an editable widget that I can have on my homescreen - I don't even have to remember to open the app, it's literally the first thing I see when I unlock my phone!

Guys, you simply have no idea how excitedly happy I am since I came across this app.

I used to wake up feeling so lost, just not knowing what I needed to do or what I had left to do.

This has made having more than 1 - 3 clients at any given time in my business literally impossible.

Now, I can add sections for each client and project I have going on and be able to know

1. Who I'm working with or
2. What I'm working on
3. What we're (I'm) doing
4. What's been completed and
5. What needs completing

Or if I want to, I can create specific journals for each individual client and project. This is definitely an app I am happy to invest in the paid version!

By the by, I have an android device, so I don't know if it's available for iPhone or not...

Either way, I will be making a fillable pdf version and printable of my daily success journal, to give away to my audience. If you'd like to have a copy, I can send it to you so you can either set it up in the custom journal app or you can print it out.

Like, I seriously cannot recommend this app enough (and they don't even have a referral program so it literally does nothing except make me feel good if you check it out. 🤣)

Anyway, just wanted to share what I've had going on and a progress update. 😊