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@LyraValley thank you!

Hey Eden, so glad that you found these techniques useful !!

Thanks so much Hari. Super glad you enjoyed the video and found it helpful !! :)

Kateryna, it is so wonderful to hear that my videos have helped you to get back into journaling. I can't imagine how hard it must be fore you right now, so thank you so much for taking the time to comment and hopefully my videos can continue to be useful to you. Sending you a hug and a smile :))))

Thank you so much !! Which technique was your favourite?

@@ollystaniland Tim's Dreamlining Exercise caught my attention, as did using first names for moments out in the world. I like the idea of adding the intentions of having, being and doing to my morning intention journalling.

Hey Rashedul, so glad to hear that you enjoy watching my videos and find them helpful !! Great question, funnily enough I study a degree called Liberal Arts. Essentially that means I get a lot of choice over what I can study but right now I am focussing on the History of London in the Early Modern Period and the effects of globalisation from the 1970s til present day. :))

​@ollystaniland So you will most likely going to be seeking an advanced degree, is this correct? If so, what is your PLAN? Or are you going to take up a trade? In the states, these careers actually make more money than college degree careers....thoughts?

Super glad that you found this video helpful !! :)

Oh wow Jon, that is so cool! Thanks for sharing that. Do you know if Einstein had a unique system that he used?

@ollystaniland It was similar to what you suggest. If you note down ideas it tells your mind that your ideas are worth noting down and gives you more ideas, like a feedback loop. It's better described in a book called "The Einstein Factor" by Win Wenger. I didn't give it a proper go, but after your video I might do now to see how it works for myself. Something that I have done on a similar vein was keeping a dream journal. That definitely told my subconscious that my dreams are important and helped me recall more of them. Again a feedback loop.

Awh Jenny, that is so kind of you to say !! I really appreciate you admiring the editing - it's a part of the video process I love maybe the most and a lot of thought goes into it! Let's hope that is true haha and you can say you were one of the original subscribers !! Hope to see you in the comments again soon :)

Glad you like the idea and found it helpful! From my perspective, when we type on the notes app for example, you can just keep typing forever. It's not like there is a limit of physical pages you have - like in your notebook or journal. Hope that helps :)

Hey Luna, so glad that you found this helpful and hope that you find success with this system in your own life :)

Hiya Shayna, really glad that you found the video and the concept easy to understand and clear. That is so crazy how your brain can watch the same thing but have completely different reactions depending on the time of day! For what it's worth, I am very similar to you. What kind of tasks do you find yourself prioritising in the morning?

@@ollystaniland I usually go for a "run" - I put run in quotes because at this early stage of my training, I'm only doing zone 2 slow jogging. A woman walking her dog passed me yesterday! Walking. I thought that was pretty funny. And then deciding what frog I'm going to eat that day would be next. Sometimes I eat the frog, sometimes my brain simply won't get in gear until later in the day, but at least I know what the most important thing is, and usually manage to complete it before day is done. I used to use checklists, and they worked very well for me for many years, then about 3 or 4 years ago, I just stopped looking at them. I tried to start up again, but no go. I'm hoping gamification (maybe with animal stickers instead of points, maybe different size duck stickers a la Taskmaster) will help me get more structure into my days.

SO SO glad that you found this video helpful and feel like you can use the dopamine journal to keep track of everything you want in your life. If you don't mind me asking - what are those things that you want to keep track of? Have a great week :)

@ollystaniland of course! I want to be able to see how many positive "surprising" events i experience in a month, because I tend to forget the little pockets of joy that come and go. the whole 1-adventure-a-month that you suggested is right up my alley, and is something I've wanted to actively do for a long time now, so it'll be great to keep a track of that too! :)

Thanks so much for noticing and then taking the time to comment - it means a lot to hear that my efforts to improve the quality of my videos are being noticed! Hope to see you in the comments again soon, as I keep striving to improve my videos :)

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So glad to hear that you found this journaling technique helpful and I hope that you find me new journaling videos equally helpful, too. Thanks for the support :)

Heya Purvi, so good to hear that you found this idea unique, detailed AND realistic. Hopefully, you can apply this dopamine diary to your own life and achieve great success with it !! Hope to see you in the comments again soon :)

So glad to hear that you think that the dopamine journal is a doable idea and something actually realistic. Hopefully you experience great success with the method. Be sure to come back and let me know how you get on :)

Hi Lilac, so glad to hear that you found the dopamine journal a simple method that you can use to not feel too overwhelmed. Hope that you get a lot of success with this method !! :)

@@ollystaniland Thank you :) I do have a question related to the monthly overview you made. How do you define or find standards for rating your monthly progress and how do you differentiate between how much you're actually capable of doing and how much you think you should be able to achieve. I kinda always get overwhelmed by the thought of how much i should've progressed at times which ends up exhausting me and leading me into this procrascination phase so I was interested about your opinion regarding that. I hope what I said makes sense

@@ollystaniland I probably should've emailed you this question 😬

Hey Dyuti, so cool to hear that you found it really useful to start a similar system to track your habits too!! Shame that you fell out of the habit of tracking things for a while but very glad to hear that you found my video helpful in reminding you how important it is to keep yourself focussed on doing things. I wish you the best of luck with the system. Be sure to let me know how you get on with it :))))

Mimi, that sounds like a great idea and I'm glad to hear that taking pictures has been allowing you to complete more journals!! Do you take pics on your phone or do you have a camera that you use?? Nice channel as well by the way :))

Hey Adrianna, so great to hear that you are doing the same three steps and I really hope that you achieve a great deal of success with the dopamine diary system. Be sure to let me know how you get on :))))

Wow, thank you so much for the HUGE compliment. I absolutely love editing these videos so I'm glad you enjoyed it too. Which parts of the video did you find most interesting?

Hey Dani, it's so good to hear that the dopamine diary system works for you and you've been achieving loads of success with it !! Thanks so much for the kind words too !! Hope to see you in the comments again soon :)

That's so cool to hear that you've been using a gratitude journal for a few years - I'm sure you must have noticed how much of an impact it has in boosting your mood, right?? Since you seem really experienced in journaling already, I am really hopeful that you're going to achieve so much success with the Dopamine Journal. Be sure to come back and let me know how you get on :)