Why Keeping a Daily Journal Could Change Your Life

Your belief in your own ability to successfully execute the behaviors requisite to achieving your goals.

Your belief that you will obtain your desire becomes rock-solid once you get your subconscious on-board.

You know exactly what you want in life. But you cannot seem to get there.

·      You have all these resolves.

·      You’re going to get healthy.

·      You’re going to write that book.

·      You’re going to be more present with your loved ones.

·      You’re going to start that home-based business.

·      You’re going to learn another language.

·      You’re going to be more patient and happy.

·      You’re going to get out of debt.

But the problem is that doing these is really hard.

And it gets harder every day!

Some days, it seems more realistic to just give up entirely.

The whole taking one step forward and one or two steps backward pattern is getting old.

When there’s a gap between who you are and who you intend to be, you are incongruent and unhappy.

You’re torn, mentally exhausted, and regretful.

You always slightly feel like a fraud to yourself, and probably to the people around you.

Conversely, Gandhi has said, “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

The Need for a Powerfully Transformative Keystone Habit

If you try to tackle everything wrong in your life, you’ll quickly burn-out and quit.

It’s happened many times before.

Life is super busy.

You don’t have time to focus on a thousand different areas of your life to change.

That’s exhausting, and frankly, not helpful.

More effective than microscopically analyzing your sabotaging behaviours, is nailing down a “keystone” habit which tightly locks all of your other habits in place.

Without the keystone, everything falls apart.

For Instance

A person might start exercising once per week, and unknowing begins eating better and being more productive at work.

She begins smoking less and showing more patience with her colleagues and loved ones.

She uses her credit card less, feels less stressed, and has increased motivation toward her goals.

The ingrained patterns in her brain reform and she becomes an entirely different person.

All because she started exercising once per week.

You acquire one of these habits and everything in your life can change.

Keystone habits spark a chain reaction of other good habits and can rapidly alter every aspect of your life.

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’s 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.

Journaling Optimizes 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 organized in such a way that they command every waking, and sleeping, moment of their life.

Instead, they relentlessly react at every chance they get.

Their days are filled with creative bursts, making them incredible at their craft.

If you want to have more creative flow in your life, stop checking your social media and email so much.

Detach from the addiction to numb your mind and escape reality.

Instead, get lost in the creative projects you’ve always wanted to do.

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.

Journal sessions are your post-work reflection time.

Account to yourself what you got done that day and what needs to be moved to tomorrow.

Write the things you learned and experienced.

Lastly, direct your subconscious by writing about things you want to focus on tomorrow.

This end of the workday journal session need not be as long as the morning session.

Primary Objective

A primary objective of this session is to mentally turn-off work- mode.

Just as in physical training, you need to rest and recover between work days in order to get stronger.

Use this session to completely unplug and detach from work.

This is your time to recover and be present with your loved ones there is more to life than work.

The higher quality your recovery, the more potent and powerful your creative sessions will be.

Journaling Generates Clarity and Congruence

This keystone habit has so much power!

By journaling in the morning and evening, 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. 

You Are the Author of Your Life

On the pages of your journal will be the future world you are creating for yourself.

You are the author of your life’s story.

You deserve to be happy.

You have the power to create whatever life you want.

As the designer of your world, get as detailed as you desire.

Journaling Clears Your Emotions

Several research studies have found that writing in your journal reduces stress.

These benefits include:

1.      Reducing scatter in your life.

2.      Increased focus.

3.      Greater stability.

4.      Deeper level of learning, order, action, and release.

5.      Holding thoughts still so they can be changed and integrated.

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 Ingrains Your Learning

Humans are bad at retaining information.

We forget most of what we read and hear.

However, when you write down the things you’ve learned, you retain them far better.

Even if you never re-read what you’ve written, the simple act of writing something down increases brain development and memory.

Neurologically, when you listen to something, a different part of your brain is engaged than when you write it down.

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 breathes.

You’ll be captivated not only by the amazing things in your life, but by the awe and brilliance of life in general.

As part of your morning and post-work journaling sessions, be sure to include some gratitude in your writing.

It will change your entire life orientation from scarcity to abundance.

The world will increasingly become your oyster.

Gratitude journaling is a scientifically proven way to overcome several psychological challenges.

The benefits are seemingly endless.

Here are just a few:

1.      Gratitude makes you happier.

2.      Gratitude makes other people like you.

3.      Gratitude makes you healthier.

4.      Gratitude boosts your career.

5.      Gratitude strengthens your emotions.

Journaling Unfolds the Writer in You

I became a writer through journaling.

While I was on a mission-trip, I wrote in my journal for one to two hours per day.

I got lost in flow and fell in love with the writing process.

If you want to become a writer one day, start by journaling.

Journaling Can Help You Achieve The Following

1.      Develop strong writing habits

2.      Help you discover your voice!

3.      Clear your mind and crystallizes your ideas

4.      Produce gems you could use in your other writing

 10 Other Benefits of Journaling

Some other benefits of journaling include:

1.      Heals relationships.

2.      Heals the past.

3.      Dignifies all events.

4.      Strengthens your sense of yourself.

5.      Balances and harmonizes.

Thank You For Reading!