Daily Journal

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Journaling daily is the most potent and powerful keystone habit you can acquire. If done correctly, you will show up better in every area of your life — every area! Without question, journaling has by far been the number one factor to everything I’ve done well in my life. The problem is, most people have tried and failed at journaling several times. It’s something you know you should do, but can never seem to pin down.

Here;s why you should do it every single day;

Journaling optimises your creative potential

Most people live their lives on other people’s terms. Their days are spent achieving other people’s goals and submitting to other people’s agendas.

Their lives have not been consciously organised in such a way that they command every waking, and sleeping moment of their life. Instead, they relentlessly react at every chance they get.

For example, most people wake up and immediately check their phone or email. In spare seconds, we hop on Facebook and check the newsfeed. We’ve become addicted to input. Or in other words, we’ve become addicted to reactively being guided by other people’s agendas.

Journaling allows you to follow your own agenda.

Journaling accelerates your ability to manifest your goals

As part of your morning creative burst, use your journal to review and hone your daily to-do list. Review and hone your life vision and big-picture goals.

As you read and re-write your goals daily, they’ll become forged into your subconscious mind. Eventually, your dreams and vision will consume your inner world and quickly become your physical reality.

Journaling creates a springboard for daily recovery

People struggle drastically to detach from work. More now than ever, we fail to live presently. Our loved ones are lucky to experience a small percentage of our attention while they’re with us.

However, utilizing your journal can curb this mismanagement. At the end of your workday, re-open your journal and review your to-do list from that day. If your morning journal session was excellent, you’ll have likely gotten everything done you intended to do. Private victories always precede public victories.

Journaling generates clarity and congruence

This keystone habit has so much power! By journaling in the morning, you’ll quickly see the incongruencies in your life. You’ll see crystal-clearly what needs to be removed and what should be included in your life. Journaling is a beautiful and powerful facilitator of self-discovery. My own journaling is how I’ve come to form my sense of identity and path in life.

Not only will you have more clarity about your path in life, but journaling improves your ability to make small and large decisions along the way.

Journaling clears your emotions

Several research studies have found that writing in your journal reduces stress. These benefits include:

• Reducing scatter in your life
• Increased focus
• Greater stability
• A deeper level of learning, order, action, and release
• Holding thoughts still so they can be changed and integrated
• Releasing pent-up thoughts and emotions
• Empowerment
• Bridging inner thinking with outer events
• Detaching and letting go of the past
• Allowing you to re-experience the past with today’s adult mind

When you are in an intensely emotional mood, journaling can help you more fully experience and understand those emotions. After you’ve vented on the pages of your journal, you’ll quickly find a release. Objectivity will return and you’ll be able to move forward.

Without a journal, intense emotional experiences can be crippling for hours, days, and even years. However, an honest and inspired journal session can be the best form of therapy — quickly returning you better and smarter than you were before.

Journaling increases your gratitude

Even if you start a journal session in a bad mood, the insight writing brings has a subtle way of shifting your mind towards gratitude.

When you start writing what you’re grateful for, new chambers of thought open in the palace of your mind. You’ll often need to put your pen down and take a few overwhelming breaths. You’ll be captivated not only by the amazing things in your life but by the awe and brilliance of life in general.

Gratitude journaling is a scientifically proven way to overcome several psychological challenges. The benefits are seemingly endless. Here are just a few:

• Gratitude makes you happier
• Gratitude makes you healthier
• Gratitude strengthens your emotions
• Gratitude develops your personality
• Gratitude makes you more optimistic
• Gratitude reduces materialism
• Gratitude increases your self-esteem
• Gratitude improves your sleep
• Gratitude lets you live longer
• Gratitude helps you bounce back from challenges
• Gratitude makes you feel good
• Gratitude reduces feelings of envy
• Gratitude helps you relax
• Gratitude makes you friendlier
• Gratitude deepens your friendships
• Gratitude makes you a more effective manager
• Gratitude increases your goal achievement
• Gratitude improves your decision making
• Gratitude increases your productivity

Journal writing, when it becomes a daily ritual for transformation, is not only life-changing but life-expanding.

Pick up this daily journal for the cost of a few cups of coffee and watch how your to-do list shrinks through this simple effective accountability measure. The opportunity to pause and reflect every morning will not only allow you to become more present in your life but will leave more time for those things of greatest value to you; family and friends.