Principles: Your Guided Journal: Create Your Own Principles to Get the Work and Life You Want

Principles: Your Guided Journal: Create Your Own Principles to Get the Work and Life You Want is a companion journal by investor Ray Dalio, building on the approach introduced in his international bestseller Principles. In that earlier book, Dalio described the unconventional method he developed as founder and builder of Bridgewater Associates, and explained how he recorded, refined and acted on a set of clearly defined principles as decision-rules for life and work.

This journal extends that aim by helping readers reflect on and write down their own principles. It provides guided exercises and questions designed to explore what you are like, what you value, and which principles may best support your goals. The activities draw on key concepts from Principles and are followed by blank journal pages featuring prompts intended to help you formulate your own principles, before concluding with a structured reflection on where you and your loved ones are along life’s journey.

Key details

• Guided journal by Ray Dalio
• Designed to help readers reflect on and record personal principles
• Includes guided exercises and questions based on concepts from Principles
• Followed by blank journal pages with prompts drawn from Principles
• Exercises can optionally be enhanced with the free Principles in Action iOS and Android app

Synopsis

Ray Dalio’s guided journal supports readers in developing their own principle-based thinking. Through structured exercises and questions, it focuses on reflection around strengths, weaknesses, motivations and preferences, as well as approaches to achieving goals, balancing assertiveness with open-mindedness, and learning from mistakes. Optional use of the Principles in Action app adds an interactive, multimedia element, and the journal closes with a structured reflection intended to leave a personalised, practical playbook for the years ahead.