About Upward Journal

Upward Journal publishes practical guides for making progress on ideas that matter to you. The starting point is a useful question: what could you try, what would help you decide, and what might you learn?

Our guides turn those questions into concrete methods, clearly identified examples, and next actions. The Small Steps Planner is a companion worksheet for carrying an idea into a project of your own.

Upward Journal is published by Awesome Patel in Chicago.

The publisher

Awesome Patel publishes Upward Journal in Chicago. This is a publication controlled by its publisher; its own pages are not independent endorsements.

Editorial standards

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