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Notes on my Journal

"Journaling" is a beautiful thing.

If you are not frequently recording your thoughts, you should be.

In my opinion, it is one of the best habits you can foster. This is due to something I believe and express often: "Your thoughts become your words, your words lead to your actions, and your actions create your reality."

What I call “journaling” is a no-prompt, free-flowing brain dump of each and every thought that crosses my mind.

My method of journaling is for observational purposes. I have found truly observing and analyzing your thoughts is much easier when they are down on the page and you can read them back.

If you wrote down absolutely every thought that crossed your mind each day, would you enjoy what you read when you look back on it?

Would it be the internal monologue of a hero on a beautiful journey, seeking solutions and being optimistic about learning and improving? Or would it be that of a villain in a horror story, living a nightmare, complaining, judging, and criticizing everything as if the world is out to get you?

Be honest and see for yourself. Write down with absolutely no filter whatever comes to your mind. See what happens. What's the downside?

Quick tip: the first few sentences you write might be, "I am sitting down to write out each and every thought that pops into my head. It feels a little weird, but I am going to see where this takes me"…. And that is okay. Just keep the thoughts flowing.

I have every thought that has crossed my mind written in journals for the past two years and a half years or so. I can look at some of my first entries and see how turbulent and scattered my thoughts were. I can observe times of turbulence and uncertainty and how I was able to navigate through them, relying on past data to navigate similar periods I may be experiencing now or in the future. I can see how beautiful my mental state is when I am in a good place, and I use that as a baseline to return to.

It is extremely valuable data to have and something your future self will thank you for if you make it a regular practice.

Notes in my Journal

Here is a sample of one of my recent journal entries I wrote while in Denver (elev. 5,276ft):

“New location.

New perspectives.

Adapting to higher elevations.

When moving to higher elevations, it is advantageous to acclimate.

When hiking Everest, it is common to hike to higher elevations, stay for a short period, and then turn back, acclimating to the higher elevation before returning to where one is acclimated, making the impending ascent a smoother process.

It is a beautiful thing that answers to questions are always right in front of you, both painfully and painlessly obvious. However, we often hesitate to acknowledge how simple solutions can be.

Don't like your job? Do something else.

Don't like where you live? Move.

Don't like your friend or partner? Leave.

Keep thinking repeatedly about wanting to do something? take action and do it.

We are free.

We are in a cage with the door open.

Why do we often say "It's not that simple"?

What if it is?

How are you so sure?”

Thank you for reading my thoughts.

My thoughts changed my life, whose to say they won’t change yours?

G