Hey, great to see you again. Let's talk about something that's really important
for you in your life. And it's called journaling. I know you've heard this from
your mom, your dad, your grandpa, your grandma.
You probably heard it a million times. But maybe you don't understand the
impact that journaling makes in your life.
A person who journals becomes a better problem-solver. And you know what you
have in your life? Problems. You've got big problems. Challenges, struggles and
when you got problems and challenges and struggles and you can't figure them out.
You're attempting to sort it out inside of your head. I know that's what you're
trying to do. You're trying to sort it out inside your head. And because you
keep trying to sort it out in your head and you can't make sense of it, your
problems and challenges and struggles are just stacking up on each other.
That's why your journal. Journaling is an outlet. Journaling is a process to be
able to take your thoughts and put them onto the paper so you can see what
you're thinking. It's really difficult to be able to solve or fix or find
something when your head's just swimming with so many different thoughts and
what's going on. So, I've got some best practices for you when it comes to
journaling. But really, really. As I mentor other people, I find that those who
journal solve problems in a shorter amount of time. And those who don't
journal tend to be more confused. They tend to be more confused. And so you
decide what path you want to go down. And I'll just be the next person in your
life to talk about how important journaling is. And maybe someday it'll
dawn on you that it's time to start journaling. But let me give you some
insight. When you get into journaling, here's a couple things I want you to pay
attention to. The first one is is to write down your
and feelings. Because something that causes confusion in our life is all of
our thoughts and all of our feelings tend to on the inside get all mixed
together. And when they get mixed together, we can't sort them out very
well. And when we can't sort it out, that causes extra problems. Because sometimes
we unload them on our kids or our friends. Or sometimes we bottle up our
thoughts and feelings so much that actually weighs on us on the inside and
can put you into a level of depression. Depression is real. And depression can
sneak up on you because those thoughts and feelings are just stored inside and
they stack up until they weigh on you and now you can't even think. And you
just feel heavy. So, journaling helps you lighten up and
help you get that out of you onto a book a pad of paper that now you can start to
notice how you're thinking and feeling.
Next thing is to write down some events. You know, as you... As you go to write in
your journal about your thoughts and feelings, they're more likely you're
going to write down some experiences between you and other people or
something that happened. But write down some events. Some things that are going
on in your life. The reason why is as you go back to review your journal to see
the distance you've come, those events will help remind you of what it is that
you were going through at that time in your life. It'll just help put some
literally some markers along your life. Like flags on the path. Because when you
start journaling, you're gonna notice how much you're able to improve. And when you
go back and read your journals, you'll start to recognize that you're changing
and growing and doing better. But when you don't include events, what happens is
you could forget what it was like. You could forget what was going on in that
time of your life. So, add some events. Next one, to be able to have some of the
best journaling experiences is write down your struggles. I noticed that
people tend to want to keep those secret and not actually put them out there
somewhere in a journal. But what happens is if you don't write down your
struggles, you probably don't even know really what you're struggling with. Now,
your journal, you know you don't have to go share your journal with people. Nobody
ever has to read your journal. This is just between you and yourself and
sorting out your life. And so, when you go to write down your struggles and you
actually start to put it into words, what's happening to you and your life,
you can begin to start to make sense of it. But I noticed this. When somebody
doesn't want to recognize their struggle, it's tough to recognize the solutions
for the struggle. If we don't admit we have a challenge, how are we ever going to
find the answers. And a journal is a great place to put that struggle. Now,
when I go back and look in my journal and I see the different struggles that
I've been going through. Sometimes I see the struggle. And I read a struggle like
a year ago and I read the struggle I was going through. And it's like, "Wow, back
then, that was something that was so big to me. But now I look at it it's like. No
I can handle that now." But a year ago, it was so big and so tough and difficult.
It's just really interesting to see how we perceive things. You know, and how we
view things. And it really helps us notice that we really are getting better.
Or this happened to me too. I read in my journal prob about 9 months ago of
this struggle that I was having. And I thought for a second, "Wait a second.
I still have the same struggle." Like, I hadn't done anything about it. And in my
journal, I had wrote down some ideas of what to do to solve this struggle but I
never did the actions. And so because I wrote in my journal, I could go back and
go, "Oh, yeah. That's right. I totally forgot about this." So, it's a great way to keep
some record-keeping of your ideas. And that's
what takes us to this next spot is this next one is about writing down the
solutions. While you're writing down your struggles and your thoughts and feelings.
And the events that are going on in your life, the good ones, the bad ones. You know,
write down about everything. As you have ideas come to you, don't just think about
the ideas. Write the ideas down. Because where you have what you're up against
and you have the solutions written there in your journal, that could be a very
powerful reminder to you down the road. And if a friend were to come to you and
say that they had a struggle that was similar to yours, you could go back in
your journal and find what it is you wrote down as the solution. And then you
could share that solution with them. You see, journaling is not just about us
and discovering ourselves and understanding ourselves. It really helps
us be able to share with other people and help them through what they're going
through. What the world needs is more people journaling. Because if you a
journal and I journal in other people journal. Then we're going to find solutions
and solve challenges so we can move forward and have great experiences. But
what happens is there's not very many people journaling. And there's a whole
bunch of confused people. A whole bunch of people trying to figure out life but
if they would just journal. If they would only just journal, they could begin to
understand what's got them into that situation and they could start to look
at it on paper and not try to sort it out on the inside of them. So, if you got
kids, you got kids... See what you can do to get them to journal at least once a week
about what goes on. My youngest son, we have him journal on Sundays. And he
writes like this one little paragraph every Sunday. And he's been doing this
now for a couple years. Not on his own. We as his parents, we just put the journal
in front of him and say, "Okay, write about something that happened this week." The
other day, he went to go write his weekly journal entry that was probably about
that big. You know, couple sentences. And we caught him
flipping back through the pages and laughing and reminding us of different
things that have happened the different events that had happened. The fun things
him and his friends did and.... And we caught him flipping through his journal.
And he just talked and talked and talked and told us all kinds of stories that
was in his journal. And he was reliving these great moments. And he was also
noticing how he thought a couple years ago. And how much he's changed. And he
would show me and say, "Dad, look at this. Oh, my gosh. I can't believe I thought
like this and I wrote like this. And I spelled like this." And he's like, "Wow, I've
really changed in the last 3 years." It was really cool to see that. But every
journal entry, he totally fights it. He doesn't want to
do it at all. But lets you and I be the smart ones. Let's help our kids, help our
spouses and let's do what it takes here to have the best experience. Write down
your thoughts and feelings. Write down all your great events and the things
that are going on. And if you have struggles, write them down. When you have
solutions, write them down. You're going to find yourself being a better
problem-solver. And you're going to find yourself literally loving your life more.
Because when we track what goes on in our life. It raises the value of our life.
When we track what goes on in our life, it raises the value. And that's pretty
cool. Okay, journaling doesn't have to be one of those big books. It can be just
small little books you use to write down your thoughts and feelings that are
going on in your life. And sometimes keeping a small journal, you can put it
in your bag, put in your pocket, keeping your truck. You know or in the
office. But someplace to keep with you know information about what's going on
in your life. But it's... Don't make it too complicated. Get something, write some
things down. But start journaling today. If you want to have a great life
then track your life. And if you want to make sense of life, Journal and track
your life. It's going to make a huge difference for you. And now here at 3key
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