hey everyone this is morgan yates and today i'm back trying another
30 day challenge i have a playlist linked below of some of my past 30 day challenges but
today we are trying journaling quite a bit different than my normal like fitnessy trying
things videos journaling has been a big part of my life in the past more so even back in college
when i feel like i was the busiest i've ever been journaling was something i did almost every single
morning throughout time i don't know how or when that really dwindled but it kind of tapered off
and ever since then especially in the past couple of years journaling is something i only do like
very sporadically when things are like honestly just when things are really wrong or when i'm
really upset and so that kind of crossed my mind and i just wanted to switch things up and try
journaling every single day again and just kind of trying to make that a part of my daily routine
and seeing if it's something i want to keep if i like if i don't what i learn and all of those
things so this is the first video you're seeing of mine i would love if you would subscribe and
this video is also sponsored by nourish by nature made which i'll tell you guys a little bit about
later on we're just going to kick it off i've vlogged the past 30 days of journaling i thought
this especially came at a good time as i've kind of talked about in vlogs like a month or two ago
when i was starting this i've kind of felt like i've been trying to relearn how to like balance
all areas of my life now that the world is getting back to normal and like i just
felt a little bit overwhelmed across the board i don't know like work social life physical health
mental health all of those things and i thought journaling could be a great like grounded place
to kind of like check in with myself and let's just hop in to day one of journaling
i need to get a different journal i've had this journal this tells you how little i have journal
in the past several years let's see the first date we have in this september 5th 2017. i've written
this on and off throughout the years to the point that this is like broken and i have literally two
more pages in this journal i'm gonna get another journal we're gonna pick that up but for now i'm
gonna start here and yeah i'm just stressed out today i have the idea of like for some future
days like getting into like some different prompts and stuff just get me like thinking about a bunch
of different things and journaling on that but for right now i just actually have not journal in so
long that i have so much on my mind that it's just gonna be good to like write out and like
anytime i feel stressed like i do right now which is mostly just caused by like work
like a little interpersonal stuff and strong but like mostly it's i just have so much
work to do before i go out of town and just like pausing to like write some things down
like really does like grounds me and calm me down so that's what we're doing
i got a new journal i'm about to get in bed and journal today specifically about
something that is frazzling me a little bit fun fact my biggest pet peeve on whispering
cuz it's kind of late my biggest pet peeve is people being late unfortunately i have friends
that tend to be quite late well some friends that are late other people that like just
think they can fit a lot of things into a time that reasonably you can't fit that many things and
that results in like plants being changed or plants not happening or whatever and that
just happened tonight even though i figured that that would happen i still found myself just like
very frustrated and annoyed and like just mad you know even though i don't want to feel that way
obviously i wouldn't be mad at anyone over that but also it's just like it is frustrating when
like you make your decisions around something happening at a certain time and then like it's
not happening i'm going to do a little bit of journaling because this is a recurring thing that
happens with certain people and basically i just want to start out whenever i'm journaling whenever
i find myself like actually having like a very strong emotional reaction that's like negative
or just something i don't like feeling like being really frustrated or mad or annoyed or whatever
when i start journaling the first thing i do is i write out like honestly kind of aggressively how
i feel like if if i ever died someone find those journals and you take them away because it's gonna
really ruin some memories of me i don't think it's like if i'm feeling type of way i might as
well like acknowledge it and that way you can move past it so i write out like very candidly what i'm
actually feeling then once i've acknowledged like my surface feelings then i get into like i don't
know problem solving or just like just a deeper level of trying to figure out like what's going
on and what like what do i now want out of that situation what do i want to change going forward
but can i ask the other person what like do i need to change my own expectations on and like can
my like what i want and what i expect ultimately even be changed to line up with like what the
other person is able to give and like if those things can't match up like then what type thing
and like what decisions do you have to make there i don't know anyways that's basically
what i'm about to be journaling about tonight yeah i am glad to have this new journal with new pages
because i need to do some thinking through um because i too just like when people are late i
have a hard time moving past it i have a hard time just letting it go it's of no benefit to me or the
other person to like carry that over into the next day or to like you know someone's 30 minutes late
to like a dinner it happens it's of no benefit to me to like still be frustrated for like the
duration of the dinner but i just have such a hard time like snapping out of how i feel so
i'm glad that i have this time tonight that this like isn't a fully in the moment thing so i can
journal somebody see this person tomorrow i can be feeling in a good place um and yeah so another
day of journaling so as i mentioned nourished by nature made is sponsoring this video so i'm
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thank you again so much to them for sponsoring this video um we're gonna keep hopping through
our days of journaling and all around in a balanced way that's just like the theme
of this video and why i started journaling is just trying to like be balanced in every
way and there's so many different areas of health and wellness to prioritize and
nourish prioritizing nutrition easy so again link below that's it for hopping into day four
officially set a reminder on my phone to remember to journal in like the middle of the day because i
feel like in the mornings i'm really busy working later in the evenings a lot of times i am doing
things with other people so saving it for the end of the day as much as i like the thought of
like journaling in bed at night and like having a little relaxing recap if i save it for then i
half the time end up seeing people and it's not going to get done so i feel like middle
of the day we will pass like the urgent work tasks of the day and then i can like
set aside some time to to journal here we are figuring out our our balance and whatnot
i don't know what day of journaling today is starting to warm up in l.a it feels good
today it's actually a little possibly too warm something i've been thinking
about as well because i spend so much time inside on days where it's bearable
i want to try to if i think about it try to journal outside just get some fresh air
get some sun because i'm not always the best at prioritizing that during the day so if i
can just kind of combine those things i get to do two things i want to do so let's do it
day 13 of journaling today i'm journaling about something i've talked about i've been talking
about in vlogs for a minute now it's just like so dumb because it's so vain and i know it as i
mentioned i've been getting eyelash extensions it's so stupid for four years and like randomly
developed an allergy to them like my eye was all swollen whatever it doesn't matter long
story short i can't get them anymore they've all like finally fallen out i'm wearing like
eyeliner mascara right now as stupid as it is yesterday like last night kind of this morning
i've just been having like a sad day about it because the contrast of like seeing myself like
look different for the first time in like four years is just i don't know it's just different
like i loved i loved them they were my little joys this is so stupid anytime i have a feeling
about something no matter how like rationally i can acknowledge that it's like a dumb thing to
care about and like be sad about you can either like pretend it's not there or you
can like acknowledge it and feel it whatever so today i'm just having honestly a bit of like an
insecure day i don't know that's what's on my mind that's what i'm journaling about today and just
acknowledging it putting it on paper and hopefully moving on from it because this is what it is
currently day 16 so i'm about halfway through the 30 days of journaling and so far leading up
to now i've just been journaling about like things that are prominent for like that day or like just
things on my mind however i feel as though today i don't really know what i would even journal about
since i am doing this every day it's like not that much is new since yesterday you know what i mean
so i actually for a long time i've had this uh card deck of like self-reflection questions that
i feel like are questions or just things i might not normally think about so i thought that i would
sort through here and maybe pull out um one as a prompt and like maybe do that for the next
few days on days that i don't feel like there's anything in particular that i like want to journal
about so today's question at random is whose life seems most fulfilling to me and what does their
life look like i don't even know where to start with that just from thinking today's question
it's currently quite early on saturday morning normally i would want to be sleeping right now
however i'm about to be out and about all day and we're staying committed to the challenge
i woke up to give myself like 30 minutes to trail
i've got some yard work going on next door if you can hear that i'm having a really good week i'm
just journaling outside i've been enjoying doing that today i don't really have anything specific
on my mind i'm just in a really good mood it's been such a productive fun week and so i'm just
kind of writing down some good memories writing out things i'm thankful for which again i think
will just be nice to be able to look back on whenever i like do read through these journals
in the future because if i like look back at like the three years like prior to this it's
mostly just like negative things when i was like really upset so making it a little bit more of a
habit is nice because then i just have like some good memories written down to look back on to our
final day of journaling i've gotten through this much of a journal what's on my mind today that i'm
gonna journal about i originally wanted to kind of just like reflect on like what i've learned and
whatever but i feel like i already know what i've learned through this process i don't need to like
write it down there's just been a lot that's happened over the past month like big things
small things and i feel like normally i'm just i keep so busy that i'm just like running from
one thing to to the next and i don't necessarily take the time to like process i don't know i've
just become so busy that like i don't often like really process how i feel about things and so the
past month i just feel like i've been so much more like calm and just like aware and at peace with
like everything going on my life even things that like aren't great or that like frustrate me or
upset me or like whatever because instead of just like holding on to that feeling like deep down
of whatever's going on i've been like getting it out on paper and like thinking through yeah just
like acknowledging and thinking through all those things landing on like a solution or like where i
can go from here how i can feel about this thing going from there or whatever processing everything
is just like it allows me to just like let go of it i don't know if that makes sense i just
i don't know there's a reason people journal you know i really do feel like this has made such a
difference for me this month i also feel a lot more grateful again when i'm just like
moving through life super quickly like i don't often as much as i used to gratitude journal
whatever this month it's been really nice when especially on bad days especially when things are
frustrating or like i'm just over everything to like really like put that into perspective i guess
take a couple minutes to write down things that like are great in my life and that i love it
makes whatever the bad thing is going on feel a little bit smaller so it's definitely something i
want to continue doing um i don't know if i'll do this every single day because it has been
a challenge on some days to find time to do this and i feel like the quality of like what
i was writing or whatever on those days wasn't necessarily the best i probably could have just
skipped it but generally something i want to continue to do and we did it actually in one
month i have a bad record of actually doing things in 30 days so pretty proud i didn't skip day
and that is it for this video again if you would like to try nourish you can get 50
off your first month with the code morgan50 at the link below if you guys have any other
30 day challenges you would like me to try out please leave those as comments that is
it thank you guys so much for watching and i will see you in my next video