What is daily journal writing? Well there are 4 incredible ways that you can go
about writing your journal that literally unlock your life. So watch
closely as I share with you 4 incredible ways to write in your journal.
That makes drummer writing so much easier.
I love journal writing. I'm just a fanatic about journal writing. Years ago,
there's no way I would have ever written in a journal. In fact, my mom could not
get me to write in my journal. It was painful. And I felt like my mom was
torturing me if I was going to write in my journal. And it was on a Sunday that she
would hand me a journal or she would say, "Kirk, go write in a journal." And I thought,
"This is crazy people talk." Why would you ever want to do this? Well, I've changed
my ways. You know, I think I was 15 back then when I was complaining about it and
now here I am you know 49. So that's like 34 years later, I finally get it. Thanks
mom. love you mom. You know, it's like I finally figured it out mom. But hey, let's
talk about this journaling. What's it all about? It's a book. You know
or it's a it's a document on your computer. Or it's a file on your phone, a
note section on your phone. But what is it doing though? There's all different
ways to go about writing in a journal. But what is happening in this experience
of journal writing? You know, you could write about the history of what happened
today. So you can collect a history which is super important for the family.
Because you never know what details matter
in 3 months from now. You can write in your journal to express yourself you
know, because maybe there's things you can't tell another person but you can
always tell your journal. It's a way of having levels of self-discovery. Learning
about the inside thinking and feeling of who you are. It develops the level of
connection. You know, you can write letters to people in your journal. My
grandfather passed away almost 2 years ago. And I can write my grandfather a
letter in my journal. I could write my dad, I could write my mom. I couldn't
write whatever I wanted my journal. But this journal writing experience can
create some really cool connections. Even though the people are far away or
maybe they've even passed, all pased there in heaven somewhere. The last one here
and I hope I spelled it right. Did I spell it right? That's supposed to stay
conscious. We're now... To spell it. Oh, you get to watch a correction, heaven.
Right, that's right. Yes. That's why you got a great team is to help you spell
check on the favor. So yeah, that word right there. But it helps to stay
conscious. Helps you stay conscious of what and what's going on in your life.
And so here, we have a journal and this is one of I think the last time I
counted I have like, I think I'm over 20 different... Ny wife has way more
journals than I do. She is... She's like the queen of journaling. But I have journals.
And I just wanted to show you a little bit of what goes on inside my journal.
Sometimes, it's a total doodle pad. I got diagrams,
I have lists, I have quotes, I have how this connects to this and this connects
to this. I have in here post-it notes where I was thinking of something else
and I brought it in here because I wanted to gather that information. Inside
my journal I also again, more diagrams. Early thinking diagrams and short little
sentences. This was an emotional chart a lot of one day. And I was writing down
the emotions and the effects of emotions. But if you notice, I'm not like a normal
like what you would think journal writer like, "Dear journal." And it's like
paragraphs and paragraphs. But this is really important to me. This information
has helped me be able to come back and look at it.
Helped me understand myself, help me figure out what to do next in my life. For
example, like this. This back on... See this is 2010. March of 2010. This is a big deal
what happened. To understand this and understand this about how I
think and how I feel, it's a big deal. But notice there's no paragraphs.
It's just his diagram of these charts that I wrote.
So, journaling. You know why do daily journaling? Well, let's just go through
the list. Helps you stay connected. Helps you discover who you are,
helps you express, it also keeps a list of a history for you.
A person who journals is a person who is conscious. And when you are conscious, you
make better decisions. That's what I... That's what I'm finding. Just to get some
kind of inexpensive journal or open up a document on your computer or a notes
section on your phone. If you want to get better at making decisions, you bring
yourself to a higher level of consciousness. And all these things are
going to happen. But what it does is it keeps your life at the surface and so
that you can remember what you've learned. You remember the mistakes you've
made. So you don't do them again. You remember your interactions with
people and you already know what you want to do different next time, But the
more you journal, the more you literally are paying attention in life. Because
when we don't journal, we forget. When we don't journal then we don't see the
connection between last Friday and last month and 2 years ago. We don't see all
those connections, those lessons that we could have learned. When we don't journal,
we tend to be more out of control of who we are. When we don't journal, we can lose
purpose. And when we don't journal, we can lose a direction. I remember writing some
information down in my journal one day and at the end of the paragraph, I was
typing this on my computer. And when I got to the end of the paragraph, I wrote
this little comment that said, "I bet this is going to be important for me to
review later." Because in that journal writing, there
were some big decisions that I had just made. But I didn't really know why those
decisions had been made on that day. Just felt it. I just felt it like, "Wow, I got to
change. Something has to change here." But nothing around us was demanding that
change to happen. But I just felt it. So, I made that little note at the end of my
journal. I think something's going to happen in the future. Well 3 months
later, a really big dramatic thing happened to my family. And we made it
through the big dramatic thing. But in my journal writing 3 months later, when
this big dramatic thing happened, I was writing in my journal going, "Wow, I'm sure
glad 3 months, ago we made this decision. I'm really glad we changed
doing this." And then all of a sudden it clicked. Wait a minute, I flipped back
through my pages and I read my journal entry from 3 months ago. And there
was this direct connection of those decisions prepared my family. Positioned
my family to be able to have the strength, the insight and the protection
for this big dramatic thing that hit us. And I was writing in my journal entry,
you know during this dramatic time of saying, "I cannot even imagine what would
have happened if we had not made those decisions." And that story is logged in
those journals. And I remember taking my journal to Kim and saying, "Kim look. Look
what we did. And look how this helped us and we're able to review that whole 4
month experience that happened." and inside those writings are understanding
of our family, our marriage, our children our purpose of life became even more
clear than where it was before those 4 months. But if I had not written
that down and if I had not fully and honestly expressed myself, I could have
missed all that information. Journaling helps us
to stay in tune to ourselves to what's happening around us. And journaling helps
us connect all the puzzle pieces of what's going on. I don't know why a
person would not journal. Actually I do know why they would in journal. There's
not enough time, they don't see a value behind it. Why would ever do this.
I don't want anybody ever read it. And there's a whole list of why people would
not want a journal. But there's a bigger list why I must journal. Because it
teaches me about Who I am. So, when you're looking at daily journal
writing, maybe you start out as just the history for the day. But then move into
expressing yourself. How you really felt for the day. Then take a look at yourself,
is there anything you learned? Anything that you learned. Is there something you
learned you should never do again or did you learn that there's something you
should remember and always keep doing? And then maybe there's somebody you need
to connect to in your journal writing. And you take a moment or a small little
paragraph. And reach out and just talk to that person in your journal. And you'll
find that all of this is helping you stay conscious. And again, I'm going to say
when you're conscious, you're going to make better decisions. And that keeps you
on the path of where you really wanted to go. It doesn't stop problems from
hitting you. But what it does do is it helps you be more conscious and
confident and strong if something does happen to you in your life. Because you
probably saw it coming in your journal. But today is a great day for you to
journal. Get yourself a book. You can go to the store and get one for a dollar. I
mean they were super inexpensive. And it's your own journal. You don't have to
read it to everybody. You can just keep it to yourself. But this is yours. It's
yours to be able to discover who you are and so that you can stay conscious and
make good choices in your life. Because here are 3 key elements, your life
matters. And your confidence and your ability to make decisions, I think about
that. And I want you to know about the things we found that works for us in our
family. In this family, we journal. Because we
don't want to get lost and be confused and have to deal with stuff we did not
have to deal with. So I hope for you and your family that you take on journaling.
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