Journal
What belongs in a chart journal (and what does not)
Keep the journal about narrative and rules. Leave the cheerleading and screenshot galleries for social feeds.
A useful chart journal answers: what structure did I see, what context framed it, what rule applied, and what did I ignore? Screenshots without sentences rarely help in a coaching review.
We ask cohort students to cap each entry at half a page. Include the marked chart, four to six sentences, and a single “missed cue” line. Skip motivational quotes, follower counts, and emoji. Skip rewriting the entry after you know the outcome — add a dated postscript instead.
When One-to-One Chart Coaching works well, the instructor is reacting to those sentences, not to a green P&L bar. If you are preparing for a session with us, send the journal pages, not a highlight reel.