Journaling has grown my life, journaling has saved my life. Journaling allows me to write about gratitude every day, and gratitude is the antidote to fear. You might be feeling bad or negative, but you write about what you’re grateful for, it hacks the negativity bias of the human brain.
So, I will write things I’m grateful for in my journal. A lot of time it’s just free flow, here’s what I’m thinking, here’s what I want my life to look like, here’s what I’m feeling. If you’re going through a difficult day, a difficult week, a difficult decade, pour your pain out into your journal. It is one of the time-honored ways to avoid repressing and suppressing the pain, which just comes back to bite you in other ways. It allows you to process through the pain. Maybe it’s sorrow, maybe it’s sadness, maybe it’s anger. You write about it, you name it, you release it. It’s very powerful.
In my journal, I write about my highest moments. If I have a great dinner with my family, if I’m traveling, I’ve had a great adventure, I write about it. That allows me to live it twice.
In my journals, I often write my goals, because what you write about, you commit yourself to. In my journals, I often write about what I’m learning. So if I’ve watched a documentary or had a great conversation with a tight enough industry that I’ve been mentoring, I go home or I go to a coffee shop and I write, and that deepens my learning.
