00:00 Intro 02:10 1. Just start 03:32 2. Use a physical journal 04:39 3. Write for yourself 06:04 4. Get it out of your head 07:18 5. Have dialogue with yourself
I have been journaling for 21 years. I also create albums--- much like a scrapbook of my direct personal experience. Don't take yourself to seriously. I write a journal of wisdoms in comment sections--- saving them in memos. In 2 or 3 hundred years someone may comprehend the magnitude of my discoveries. At this time I have not met anyone who can wrap their head around the implications. I don't find very many curious people. People believe they are more aware than they really are. _"Blinded by self-importance....... the visionaries of society haven't the vision of a blind musician nor the perception of a churchmouse"_ cc. 👀🐡🌾🌿
I'd argue that digital offers more efficient facilities to process your thoughts after writing, link them, organize them. Even the most basic activity of searching is much more convenint and fast in digital. And there are digital solutions (e.g. Obsidian) that store the information in a format as basic and evergreen as possible, like almost plaintext Markdown, so you'd be able to easily carry your data further into the future. So, I would only recommend analog writing if you only need to write once and never do much further processing. And if you are writing for yourself why does it matter that the physical book will remain? Lets be honest, most of us are not imperators, and nobody would care about our journals. And the reason that Meditations remained to our day is not because it was written in a physical book, but because it was persistently copied over and over. Another drawback of physical books is that you need physical space to store them (that's becoming an inconvenience in a modern world), and can't easily carry all of them around.
Did not realize when I actually started putting my positive manifestation in my journal. At my lowest life phase I was dreaming and journaling my sea facing villa, my design business, my dream family. Today when reading back the journal am amazed how they all came true to the finer details
@@itsshelbster.Can u please tell me how you wrote it in ur journal...like, did you write in a way as if you are writing in a magic book of granting wishes..which would make wishes true which are written in them?..what was your writing style? Kindly elaborate please
@@Virtual_Guy I cant speak on behalf of OP but the way I have done it is just a sort of checklist It can be as sloppy as you want or as neat and well put together as you want but ultimately I believe that when you put your hopes and ambitions to paper its like setting a commitment to yourself
I started Journaling and it's grown so big in our house that we now journal together as a family. My favorite time of the day is Journaling in the evening with my kids to off load their day, a create a restful environment for sleep. Thank you for this pathway ❤
My proudest possession are my journals. I am 16 and I have been journaling constantly ever since I was 7... I have 22 journals completed, I've had years in which I had one completed in a month... And sometimes when I read it back I get uncomfortable but other times I'll be surprised about how I looked at the world back then. Even though I wrote only about "unimportant" things and things I don't think are true anymore, reading my old journals gives me the possibility to see the world I saw back then
I agree with every single point of this video. If you disagree, youre not getting it. I just found out about this channel, and Im not interested in stoicism, but this whole process just came to me randomly. I just started fixing myself, and I dont even know how to explain my process. I was writing for 7-8 hours on some days, and I enjoyed every moment of it.
When i get behind i can spend 8+ hours writing. Been journaling since 1992. You can even see how your handwriting changes over time. I often make myself laugh when reading back ❤️
@@bhaveshjoshi3081 Totally disagree with you bhavesh, Im also journaling from the past 3 years now, and it really helped me to understand myself and achieved my goals! Journaling is nothing but a guide for your life, for your thoughts, for you actions. One who journal for longer period of time can understand this better!
@@mariefrenz3133 I began journaling about 1950. I wrote about Elizabeth who becamer queen and in 1954 about the east coast hurricane. An older waitress, at Cape Hatteras told us "13 head of people were killed down the road. I was 14 at the time, and I was impressed. Over the years some people were disturbed by my writing. I look back and know these people were not my friends.
Started journaling earlier this month and I must say I have never felt more mental clarity in my life. This act can create a suitable balance in your emotions. You are always calm and calculated. And my retentive memory jumped up a little more.
@@wasimaps stuffs are just stuffs it is us who define them to be bad or good... Just write everything but remember the point that writing is just to know you true self... Never write from the perspective of who you want to be but from the perspective of who you really are... Once you know who you are then something happens (no words to explain)
I would like people to remember that INTENTION is everything. Don’t just vomit out your bad stuff. There is now plenty of evidence that journaling can also increase obsessions and justifications. Serial killers and school shooters almost all keep journals. You must intend something cleansing and forgiving and use it intentionally for self-awareness. It is not always catharsis unless you decide it is.
Gosh! I love that you said INTENTION IS EVERYTHING, and to make it cleansing and forgiving. I am starting to journal from TODAY. I was gifted three different types of journals and having been looking at them for about two months, hesitating to begin as I was thinking of ‘getting it right’ and saving the journals for ‘something special’. TODAY IS THE DAY I BEGIN TO WRITE WITH INTENTION!
Moleskin journals literally made me fall in love with journaling. I have over 200+ full since 2013. If your not journaling it’s super powerful, and will change your life…
That’s a lot there. I write may be 2 Moleskines per year at max. Usually it is about 3 Moleskins every 2 years. I also write small and in a language that does not take up a lot of spaces nor as lengthy as English. I also spent at least 2 hours each day. I wanna know how do you keep the 200+?
Journaling for me has always been a private, self-soothing kind of therapy. If I am struggling with some kind of stress or situation, I can not control or change, I write it out. It helps me get the feelings and thoughts out of my head and I can move on with my day. I also started keeping a journal after I had my first child. At first I started it for them to have when they get older, now I enjoy looking back at it. I have four children, a husband and a full-time job so the Journaling has not happened in a long time! But, I know I can always go back to it whenever I want and start back up.
Yoh! This is so profound. Steve Jobs not being able to retrieve his files electronically but we can all read Leonardo’s journals. Been thinking about the best medium to store knowledge for future generations and this hit home. Thanks!
I have about a dozen plastic file boxes filled with album/journals. I also have electronic files--- many are archived on websites. I started writing onlinebin 2000 because something interesting began to emerge. My albums have diagrams, artwork, articles and journals--- depending on how deep I want to look back into things. I re-live the best and the worst of life and gain great joy and satisfaction of the sdpiritual growth I have realized, and documented. 💗 Like a conversation with God. 👀🐡
The Daily Stoic and the Daily Stoic email are responsible for my daily Journalling practice. I started three months into the National lockdown in the UAE when looking fro something to get through. It has helped me profoundly changed my mindset and life for the better. Thank you for that Ryan.
Stoicism changed my girlfriend forever. She is so productive, and is now a founder of three companies. I wanna follow her steps, as well as support her stoicly.
A man following the steps of his woman is not a man. Your role is to lead her, or you'll find real quick that she'll leave you for a man she can look up to. While she's learning on stoicism, you should learn on what it means to be a man and how to be one. No offense
@@nephastgweiz1022 Would it be more acceptable to you if IKEMEN had said “learn from her example” or perhaps “be more like her”, i.e., be more productive, more successful? Saying “no offense (meant)” after making obviously offensive and misogynistic comments is, in and of itself, offensive to all of us here.
@Christopher Sove Sure, you guys can keep going the way you're already going, I'm trying to help a guy who will ultimately be heartbroken, but in the end it's not my problem
I love to write in cursive. Today’s world we are constantly typing into screens. There’s something so great about moving my hand across the page. I have kept journals for years, and I have experimented with writing with both hands, backward and forward!
Hebrew and Arabic are easy for the left hand since they go right to left, the same way it feels natural to write english with right hand, left to right and you'll also learn new language, that's always a plus When Writing English backwards, the left hand makes more sense and you can see your hands mirroring the movements. Left hand Ǝ,E right hand I don't even know if your left or right handed lol hopefully this makes sense
I just realized how I needed this..! I was a journaler in my youth and I quit it long time ago. What it hits me is that I took different ways to replace that: mostly Facebook, those thinks that I could share with others, though they were inner thoughts. I emailed to myself for those things I didn't want to share. I even wrote in the cell phone notes or in loose papers... I think it's time to grow and come back to the old habit. Thank you so much for the enlightening!
What makes journaling an even better daily habit is writing with a fountain pen. I use Lamy fine nip, which is a low cost plastic pen that writes so well. I use my journal to: 1. Capture my initial thoughts 2. Set my meditation intention 3. Capture immediate thoughts from the meditation 4. Then insights 5. Then actions 6. Then I capture my intent for the day which I review in my evening meditation session
Started this new thing where I just let my thoughts loose on a page, no stress about how it looks or reads. Then I hand it over to my trusty sidekick, ChatGPT, to do the cleaning up. It turns my brain dumps into something that's easy on the eyes, still sounds like me, but way smoother. Once it has tidied up my jumbled ideas into a neat, coherent format, I seek its insights on my writing. Honestly, it's a fascinating process that I highly recommend!
The first tip really works. I started journaling by writing only 5 sentences about what happened that day when I was 14. And I've pretty much never stopped journaling since.
'I was aggressive in my response to Matt about Maths and I hope I can change that tomorrow.' is a simple, life changing (reminder to self to be kinder tomorrow) sentence. Also, 'today, I realised I don't like the boring flavour of tea.' is simple but life changing. Because the next time you go to buy tea, you double check yourself.
When I was journaling about my first marriage over the years, it became clear - it would´nt last. Later I burned the written down and it was such a relief. Nowadays I still have notebooks about My journey. And they are full of poems, recepies, laughter and being aware.
Instinctively I started journaling, not a dairy but at 16. I would write about the marvelous of my unknown life ahead of me. I also had a master wish list and everything on my list had happened. It works.
I've been journaling since I was given a journal as a high school graduation present in 1975! In 2010 I saw David McCollough speak at a family history conference. He said something to the effect that only those who leave physically written journals and letters will be remembered. You just proved that with the anecdote about Steve Jobs. If someone doesn't know what to write about, think of what you'd like to know about your ancestors and then write about those things in your life. I think reading my past journals is interesting as I can see my growth and also how I've stayed the same.
Yes I started in 1979. Before that I kept a diary. It’s amazing the differences I have seen in myself and then there are things that haven’t changed (that really need to lol).
I use the Julia’s morning pages approach. That and No 4 have been the biggest reasons why journaling has become so important to me. It’s like my therapist because something magical happens - as in the processing you start to get perspective and a wisdom starts to come through. Love the Anne Frank quote too
Waaayyy back in the 1960s, (1962 to be exact) I started a journal which I put on 3 x 5 cards because I didn't want anyone to find it. (Hey, I was 12 at the time!) Later, when I started attempting to write fiction, I would put the ideas and thoughts in an actual book. I keep separate books for dreams, ideas, etc. Somewhere along the line, I realized that I had to stop putting them in separate books because *everything was connected*. The dreams informed my writing, the writing informed my dreams; my dreams informed and were a result of my "mundane" life; my "mundane" life informed my dreams and my writing, so I stopped putting things in separate books. Then, when computers came around, I started writing things in the computer. Nowadays, if I'm looking for a specific incident/idea/dream, it's easier for me to go up to the folder and simply search for what I'm looking for and then, when I find the entry, to either note it in the present document as to where to find the idea, or to actually bookmark it, so all I have to do is click on the bookmark and it takes me back (or forward if I'm reading old entries) to the subject I'm researching. BTW, my journal is now 57 years old and continuing. 😼 If there is such a thing as reincarnation, I full expect to come back in another life and find those journals.
I remember Journaling when I was in my teens. It was mostly teenage angst and my family read some parts of it. I burnt all my work down. I'm slowly understanding that I don't always have to make it about other people. I am now slightly more mature and will once again being writing in a physical diary with much clarity and focus on myself.
Watching these videos to get me back to my life, inspires me, and reminds me that Life is great! If it is super hard, I watch it or other videos repetitively about 5 times, until I feel calm inside. Thank you for doing your job.
People think I go too far caring about waterproof ink in my fountain pens but here he is talking about DaVinci's journals being readable up to this day. Now, do I hope to be as important as him? Nope. But I maybe I can leave something cool for my grandcrildren's children
I never realized the potential of journaling until I discovered the Stoics' approach. These habits have helped me gain clarity and perspective in challenging times. Highly recommend giving them a try! This video has given me a new appreciation for journaling. The Stoics' practices have brought a sense of calm and purpose to my life. Grateful for this valuable knowledge!
I don't journal. I'm dyslexic. I have horrible handwriting and I have ADHD. Writing is not conducive to creative thought for me. The physical task takes too much of my concentration for my creativity to actually flow. But I do sketch And have for years. Some of my sketches are completed drawings and some are just gestures with notes. Journaling does not have to take one specific form for it to be a valid practice. And it took me a long time to come to this realization. For years I beat myself up for not being able to journal or get anything out of the monumental effort that journaling took. Only when I let go of what I thought it should be did I really get something out of it.
Its perfectly fine my friend. Language is just a medium. Journal is similar to meditation. Mostly People write a journal, but its not limited to just writing. Your language is sketch/art, just like some scientists and artists.. on the other side, i am sure your journal looks more interesting with all sketch on it, giving it more visual experience. Keep doing it. You are excellent. More power to you. 😊
I have dyslexia and I'm a copywriter. What I personally do is sketchnotes, it's a combination of writing and drawing in one page. Check youtube about it. I hope that helps.
Recording audio entries with your iPhone or Android while you are walking or driving or doing chores or whenever. This has been killer for me. iPhone now has a pretty good built in Journal app which solves a lot of the blockers people struggle with in this video. This has been a total game changer for me and I now look forward to the time every day. I'm also planning an app to take the speech to text and much more.
Stack this new practice of journaling onto something else that you already do. I’ve made it as a practice that I do for 15 minutes before noon everyday. Noon is my reminder to get this new habit accomplished. I’m seeing what works for me, too. Is it beneficial for me to do it before breakfast? I’m finding out that my stomach wants the 15 minutes to get over with instead of allowing me to let my thoughts flow.Carving out 15 minutes is doable for me right now. Begin.
think about it as writing a letter to yourself, or better talking to someone via paper. and you are free to write about anything you want: the weather, your mood, the music you are listening to, or the herbal tea you are drinking while journaling. its a place where you are totally free to say whatever you want.
I first wrote in my journal in the year 1996 as a displaced refugee, but I became more serious when we left northern Iraq to go on a perilous boat journey from Bali to Australia ~ and once we got out of detention centre in Australia, I started writing again and journaled using a physical book until I went to university and then at uni and on my travels I used applications like A note or Scrivener but I never gave up - that’s to say until I had kids. Nowadays I feel so different and I mean I miss it so freaking much. So the I finally bought a journal yesterday and I am going to JUST START! And I should mention Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is my fave book of all time!
Journaling actually saved my life! So all these points hit home for me. Thanks for the reminder and spreading the word about how important it is to write in your journal every day.
Hi BookMattic, could you tell a bit more about how journaling saved your life? I'm feeling a bit stuck and wonder whether journaling would help me too. Thank you in advance.
@@titiavandeneertwegh3170 and to answer your question I do believe that journaling can help out anyone, in any state of mind, with any potential problem or just a way to vent.
@@BookMattic what type of journaling did you do? May I ask, if it’s not too personal, how journaling saved your life? When I read that I had wondered if you had been suicidal or how you meant it. Any details are helpful, whatever you’re willing to share. Thanks!
@@tnijoo5109 My journaling style is very reflective. When I open my journal, I ask myself a question like 'how is your day going?' or 'why did ______ happen today and how can I prevent (if negative)/repeat (if positive) it from happening again.' Or sometimes I just write without any prompt at all just to get whatever is in my mind down onto paper. It saved my life not because I was suicidal but because I was depressed and I felt like if that depression continued that it could lead down the path of suicide (unlikely in my case). I did not want to go down that path so I decided that I would take to paper and vent all my thoughts and feelings, all the bad and the good. I looked at what I had written about my life and realized there was way more good than bad. This helped me to move out from depression and into the reality that life can be tough but there will always be a positive side to look forward to and strive toward.
I journal in the evening to cover my day...I also have 4 journals currently 1. Self-Care journal, which helps bc I'm also my dad's caregiver 2. Basic daily journal 3. A FML journal, that is only written in when my day is totally shitty 4. Commonplace Journal Edit: I also have a separate Bible Study journal
I have 3. A weekly journal which is essentially split into 3-2-1s (3 things you're grateful for/proud of, 2 things you wanna get better at and 1 thing you wanna achieve for the week), a daily journal where it's just one thing I'm proud off, one thing I wanna be better at and one thing I wanna achieve for the day and then another journal where it's more expressive, so I'll pen down my thoughts for the morning and night. It's helped me immensely
@@mukalolungile9075 They are 4 to 5 journals that have their own notebook or whatever I can use for a journal. They are individual.... Totally separate each other
The momentum of this is so powerful I'm just getting started and it's surprising how diverse your thoughts are and the attention of how you sort it is fascinating.
Thank you Ryan for introducing me to stoicism. It all started when my sister-in-law mentioned the title of a book, your book, The Obstacle is the Way. That same night I purchased it to listen on Audible. Since then I have listened to several of your books and podcasts and I journal. Memento mori. Andy
Thanks for this video. I heard you say something about journaling in a previous video and I really want to start recording my thoughts, feelings, and things I've done to have record and for self improvement. I know I can't remember everything so I hope journaling can give me peace of mind and a foundation to build upon.
I just started Two days ago! I couldn't make an entry yesterday though, but I'll write yesterday's entry today so I can make up for it. I was very worried that Journaling would be useless for me because I didn't have a format and I didn't write consicely and clearly as other people do. But I realized that it's all about just starting. We can get better at doing anything by doing more, all we need to do is just start. regardless of situation.
I like to think of days as being separate. Not Day 2, Day 3, ugh can't be asked Day 4...Day 5... every day is Day 1. Hope you managed to keep going. You took the time to write a YT comment, similar time to write in your journal. Keep going..
As someone who struggled to make journaling stick, I found that if I miss a day and try to summarize it the next day, it would become a hinderance for me. I felt like I had to play catch up all the time. Unless there’s something you really want to remember from the last day, I recommend just skipping it and writing about your current day while your thoughts are fresh, otherwise yesterday’s thoughts start to muddle with today’s thoughts and so on :)
Just start! Good idea. We can sometimes get stuck into thinking that we must perform like a master, but we need to remember that the master was once an apprentice too. Start now, and you have a chance at mastery. Don't start, and you will never be a master.
Been journaling for 35 years. It’s indispensable to me. Recently, read and burned about twenty years of them. It was extremely cathartic. Think I’ll add an every ten year burning. Just one journaler’s process ❤️🔥📚
@@bornalisinha4401 Burning is a release. Also, years of journals are heavy, physically and psychologically. Burning them is a way to let go, to be lighter. I read them, keep passages I don’t want to forget, and release the rest.
I am an avid journaler, but I found it impossible to write freely of my feelings and observations when writing in pen and paper because the thought of my private writings being found, or upon my eventual death, having my family finding them, made me sensor my writing intentionally or unintentionally. When "password protect" on computers came into being, that freed me to journal more openly.I have been doing so ever since (25 years?).
I constantly struggle with boundaries in my life. People reading my journals. People putting pressure on my to stop writing journals. People sulking because I won't let them read my journals. People mocking that I write a journal. I can see why Davinci wrote in code.
Just started in 'the artist way' where one of the tasks is to do morning pages. I'm gonna start this week. The effects of journaling sounds amazing. I never heard of the benefits before.
I loved The Artist's Way! Enjoy your creative journey, and thanks for making our world more lovely by cracking into your own creativity! I wish you courage and joy.
This is great and motivational. I have had a brain injury in the past, and I found that writing has helped clear my head and my brain. I try and write down thoughts and how I'm feeling more than anything, however, I haven't written in such a long time. Maybe this is a calling for me to start writing again?
I have been keeping a journal for over five years now. I would highly recommend it. My book Millennial Money Mindset notes were all created in my journal
As a second language learners journaling was the only way out for me to break through to English language. Though back then I didn't know about journaling being actually practice. For I was just copying the Dracula's characters' habits for keeping journals
Agreed 💯 ✔️🤝.... journaling is a game changer. Apart from the points mentioned here, would like to add how writing down can clear ur thoughts and a muddled brain. It's a kind of meditation all in all.
It’s been a long time since I wrote journal again. I always wanted to start again, but I could’t do it. Today I plant the first seed again, I cannot imagine how much I will thank myself in the future.
Journaling is great and I like to do it using a fountain-pen as it helps to master a great handwriting. But a disadvantage writing is that you can't search later on for things you know you have been writing about. As our brain is limited more and more people are creating an extended brain. I did that first by creating directory structures on disk more than 25 years ago. It helped to search better but it did not connect idea's together. I than stumbled on a tool called "Thebrain". This tools allowed me to input thought and notes (log entries) and allowed connection to other thought and idea's. After about 15 years of using this tool and putting information in to it I have an extended brain. It makes me super fast finding information, my colleagues always come to me for finding information, as I can bring more than google in the way information is connected to other thoughts. In fact I saw a book called "The second brain" which in fact describes the process I did during that 20 years. Another book called "ZetelKasten" and "How to take smart notes" are crucial in building a second brain based on note taking.
Oh my gosh, I was reading your comment and immediately thought “is this what I just started?” I had told my friends I need a second brain! I walked into library one day and there was THE BOOK! Building a second brain! well guess what I bought the cd of the book, and have started two files as I learn that my brain was not meant for storage but for ideas! I love this concept….ph by the way the book is BUILDING A SECOND BRAIN by Tiago Forte. My two experimental files: THE FIRST CONTAINER (that I found in a consignment store … the second I found in a thrift store ! Lol one holds index cards in two areas….A-Z FILE TABS and JAN-DEC FILE TABS The second one that I actually bought two of since an antique wood look to it….is now holding index cards based on several categories so far……each tab has a category for my second brain, my storage brain, to peruse lol……such as: BOOK TITLES TO INDULGE IN, CAREGIVING TIPS OR QUOTES, MY OWN FLEETING THOUGHTS I DO NOT WANT TO FORGET, COMPUTER “how to tips “ TO NOT FORGET, HEALTH, ONE FILE TAB REGARDING OUR 2 DAUGHTERS that I need to remember, DECLUTTERING WHAT, SUBSCRIPTIONS I PAY FOR, LOST AND FOUND..(to be sure I remember where I put something) MEMORY ( things I MUST REMEMBER BUT NO NEED TO STORE IN MY BRAIN) … and the list goes on….such a joy to have a second brain to access lol, and to minimize what I have to store in my first brain! The whole idea is why do we want to have to store in our brains the same thing over and over and over, when instead it can be stored on an index card! And the other highlight, I don’t have to turn on and off the computer to find my info. Under memory tab is bank rules, don’t forget mouse traps put out lol, car have-to to dos… The month tabs in other index file are so helpful to remind me of upcoming events or big bills, the A-Z covers vaccine cards, passwords, handyman names and numbers, doctors, business cards etc. Hope this gave someone some insight
At the beginning of this year I was faced with a potentially critical medical condition. Along with delays, and waiting for test results and treatment. I sort of kept a journal during that time. In my case, treatment was successful, and I'm back --but I've been very haphazard in writing since that time, however.
I have been journaling now for just a little over 2 years and it has helped me understand myself, stay sober and reflect. The part about physical journal is a personal preference, I say just journal whatever media you choose.
"One Line Per Day Journal" ... I think THIS may be MY Game Changer. I can do one line without any effort, and if I add a few more lines, I have recorded my history.
Just an FYI..Nelson Mandela calendar and journals are available at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, he NEVER used a computer or electronic device for his journals...There were literally rows and rows of calendars and journals...All hand written entries of course...100% solid content! Thank you!
Hello，Holiday. Love your books and have read some and bought more, which are on the way to my home now. It is a minor lunar holiday here in China. Great to seeing u in video for the first time, a special gift for me. Wish you a great day and being more handsome each day, hahaha
💕 Things I do/ wish I do 💕 I do: ~ journal everyday ~ practice self-love ~ have an even amount of life and phone ~ help myself grow better I wish I do: ~ take time out of my day to shower and refresh everyday ~ meditate everyday ~ read everyday ~ have full self-love ~ have full self-healing __________________________ Dont take your wishes/don’ts as bad things you should look down on. Look at them as ways to improve your health. They aren’t challenges, theyre just new strengths.
Saying journaling without technology can feel very ableist towards people who have disabilities that make physical writing difficult. I have had to go seasons of journaling with technology and it’s just as valid and when I’m able to use pen and paper. If you’re reading this and need to use technology, you are valid. Your journaling is valid. It’s just as deep and meaningful as paper journaling. Your writing matters and is a perspective only you can share.
I have started journaling on my iPad… but that line about Steve Jobs not being able to access old files while you can still read Leonardo Da Vinci’s work is eye opening. I might have to write things down…
Went to your store and picked up a book because I wanted to read up on stoicism and your book was a good informative piece on the lives of the philosophers
I used to journal a lot when I was a child/teenager until I found out that someone I (should) trust the most, has read them. Ever since, I do not trust anyone, become secretive and keep to myself. I still do journaling sometimes, but in a file with Microsoft Word protected with a password. Starting a physical journal is just a crazy idea for me, it's beyond my imagination ¹/⁹¹²²
Oh dude, I hear ya. I write for hours, but it's all behind multiple passwords on my phone. The betrayal of someone reading your journal cuts deep. After it happened it was a long time before I could even start again. And they easily do transfer between phones. They can be moved along with you if you plan for it and don't just leave it on an old device.
@@kirrileepoehland9994 Great idea. But don't you want to look back on what you've written at a particular point in time? I don't journal at all, due to concerns about privacy
I suppose when you write, you create a way to output processed thoughts. Good or bad. Not sure why, but as you write...your ability to process stuff, improves over time.
Exactly. The act of journaling is the act of processing your thoughts and emotions by identifying, formulating and abstracting them from yourself to analyze. Talking through, or even just dumping your thoughts onto other people is also a kind of processing. Journaling is just more personal.
Journaling helps to wipe out the tensed emotions. Sometimes, it works like magic. Journaling on digital platform helps to have a structered sense whereas on a physical journaling we find open journal type of feeling.
Also made a video on how and why to journal. For your point about the physical journal, what I found is there is something about putting thoughts (intangible) into a tangible written format and there is memory in writing and intentionality that's just different.
I am a philosophy teacher and stoicism changed my life for the better. And I love your way in putting it out there. However journaling is something I struggle to keep as a habit. Does it happen to you to go back to your old writings and to hate what is written and maybe throw it away? This happens to me. What do you think that is?
One thing i learned about journaling is that don't take it as something that has to be productive rather let it be your reflection time a journal where your many thoughts are free to be written and feelings and the important things to you hope this helps
Yes this has happened to me-I will go back and read and for various reasons (I don’t like my writing, I don’t like my thoughts) I will throw it away. If I were to make a guess I would say that you suffer from perfectionism and control issues like I do - it’s like we want these journals to be Nobel prize winning documents.
I write a short paragraph every day in my five year diary (I am on the second year). So I decided to also write a daily emotional journal, but for some reason I just can’t keep it up. It’s not like I have to write something emotional every day, I can just write observations, or elaborate on my day, but it’s just not working out and I am stressing about getting behind. So I guess I am just going to have to drop it.
I have been listening to your videos for a month now, and they do make alot of sense. I am not sure what to do about myself and I ask myself today, " who is in charge" of me?? I have done this several times, I will get ready in my workout clothes to go to the gym, and then I don't end up going, I distract myself with other things like TH-cam. So, who in the hell is running my life, apparently its not ME, I have the desire but no motivation :-((
Basically, there are three parts of our brain responsible for behaviour: oldest "reptilian brain" - responsible for basic bodily functions and instincts; then "mammal brain" - responsible for emotions, habits; and the most evolutionary recent one - "human brain" responsible for rationale, planning and other high level functions. Obviously, when we seek distraction from quick dopamine sources it's the "mammal brain" that overpowers our decision making. You need to learn to suppress your "mammal brain" and nurture your rational brain. Stoicism principles is very much about that.
Regarding the physical journal. To me that is also about being better able to let go of things because I wrote them with pen on paper. Typing always feels less personal and therefore doesn't work well for me
*"Everything in life is easier when you don't concern yourself with what other people are doing."* The chances of you seeing this comment is pretty low, but if you did, *I hope you have an amazing day.* 🖤
00:00 Intro
02:10 1. Just start
03:32 2. Use a physical journal
04:39 3. Write for yourself
06:04 4. Get it out of your head
07:18 5. Have dialogue with yourself
Think this very good thing for INFJ to learn
I have been journaling for 21 years. I also create albums--- much like a scrapbook of my direct personal experience. Don't take yourself to seriously.
I write a journal of wisdoms in comment sections--- saving them in memos.
In 2 or 3 hundred years someone may comprehend the magnitude of my discoveries. At this time I have not met anyone who can wrap their head around the implications. I don't find very many curious people. People believe they are more aware than they really are.
_"Blinded by self-importance....... the visionaries of society haven't the vision of a blind musician nor the perception of a churchmouse"_
cc. 👀🐡🌾🌿
I struggle grasping this 07:18
I'd argue that digital offers more efficient facilities to process your thoughts after writing, link them, organize them. Even the most basic activity of searching is much more convenint and fast in digital. And there are digital solutions (e.g. Obsidian) that store the information in a format as basic and evergreen as possible, like almost plaintext Markdown, so you'd be able to easily carry your data further into the future. So, I would only recommend analog writing if you only need to write once and never do much further processing.
And if you are writing for yourself why does it matter that the physical book will remain? Lets be honest, most of us are not imperators, and nobody would care about our journals. And the reason that Meditations remained to our day is not because it was written in a physical book, but because it was persistently copied over and over. Another drawback of physical books is that you need physical space to store them (that's becoming an inconvenience in a modern world), and can't easily carry all of them around.
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Did not realize when I actually started putting my positive manifestation in my journal. At my lowest life phase I was dreaming and journaling my sea facing villa, my design business, my dream family. Today when reading back the journal am amazed how they all came true to the finer details
I am at the same spot now with similar ambition. Still figuring out and learning things the hard way. Glad i came across your comment. 🙌🏼❣️
I can relate to this statement.
Almost every positive moment I've wanted to happen that I've written down happened.
@@itsshelbster.Can u please tell me how you wrote it in ur journal...like, did you write in a way as if you are writing in a magic book of granting wishes..which would make wishes true which are written in them?..what was your writing style? Kindly elaborate please
@@Virtual_Guy I cant speak on behalf of OP but the way I have done it is just a sort of checklist It can be as sloppy as you want or as neat and well put together as you want but ultimately I believe that when you put your hopes and ambitions to paper its like setting a commitment to yourself
Did you just write what you wanted, or "as if" it was true. Because I just can't do the "as if" way
I started Journaling and it's grown so big in our house that we now journal together as a family. My favorite time of the day is Journaling in the evening with my kids to off load their day, a create a restful environment for sleep. Thank you for this pathway ❤
omg that’s inspiring! ❤
that is beautiful idea!
I never thought about journaling as a family. What a great and beautiful idea! 🥰🥰
I wish I had done this with my children - what a fantastic idea!
My proudest possession are my journals. I am 16 and I have been journaling constantly ever since I was 7... I have 22 journals completed, I've had years in which I had one completed in a month...
And sometimes when I read it back I get uncomfortable but other times I'll be surprised about how I looked at the world back then. Even though I wrote only about "unimportant" things and things I don't think are true anymore, reading my old journals gives me the possibility to see the world I saw back then
That’s so dope 💯🤟🏾 Love it keep Writing
I agree with every single point of this video. If you disagree, youre not getting it. I just found out about this channel, and Im not interested in stoicism, but this whole process just came to me randomly. I just started fixing myself, and I dont even know how to explain my process. I was writing for 7-8 hours on some days, and I enjoyed every moment of it.
When i get behind i can spend 8+ hours writing. Been journaling since 1992. You can even see how your handwriting changes over time. I often make myself laugh when reading back ❤️
This resonated with me so much 🥲
Wasted valuable time...journaling is just and aid not the life in itself. Wake up!
@@bhaveshjoshi3081 Totally disagree with you bhavesh, Im also journaling from the past 3 years now, and it really helped me to understand myself and achieved my goals! Journaling is nothing but a guide for your life, for your thoughts, for you actions. One who journal for longer period of time can understand this better!
Wow, I was born in 1992. Your journals are as old as I am.
@@mariefrenz3133 I began journaling about 1950. I wrote about Elizabeth who becamer queen and in 1954 about the east coast hurricane. An older waitress, at Cape Hatteras
told us "13 head of people were killed down the road. I was 14 at the time, and I was impressed.
Over the years some people were disturbed by my writing. I look back and know these people were not my friends.
Started journaling earlier this month and I must say I have never felt more mental clarity in my life. This act can create a suitable balance in your emotions. You are always calm and calculated. And my retentive memory jumped up a little more.
What do you write about? Good stuff? bad stuff?? This is what stops me writing or journaling
@@wasimaps stuffs are just stuffs it is us who define them to be bad or good... Just write everything but remember the point that writing is just to know you true self... Never write from the perspective of who you want to be but from the perspective of who you really are... Once you know who you are then something happens (no words to explain)
Do you journal in the morning or in the evening?
I would like people to remember that INTENTION is everything. Don’t just vomit out your bad stuff. There is now plenty of evidence that journaling can also increase obsessions and justifications. Serial killers and school shooters almost all keep journals. You must intend something cleansing and forgiving and use it intentionally for self-awareness. It is not always catharsis unless you decide it is.
Very good point!!
Gosh! I love that you said INTENTION IS EVERYTHING, and to make it cleansing and forgiving. I am starting to journal from TODAY. I was gifted three different types of journals and having been looking at them for about two months, hesitating to begin as I was thinking of ‘getting it right’ and saving the journals for ‘something special’. TODAY IS THE DAY I BEGIN TO WRITE WITH INTENTION!
@@BeingReal1 Atta girl, good work on starting! Know that quantity over quality is the way for starting out
On point! Ironic that, like anything, a tool can be used for betterment or descent to the depths of despair.
😕 *Hmmm...Good poinT.!* 👍
Moleskin journals literally made me fall in love with journaling. I have over 200+ full since 2013.
If your not journaling it’s super powerful, and will change your life…
And you have to babysit for 200 very personal books forever
Do you have them all on shelves? I would feel so much joy looking at the collected works of my life in that way.
That’s a lot there. I write may be 2 Moleskines per year at max. Usually it is about 3 Moleskins every 2 years. I also write small and in a language that does not take up a lot of spaces nor as lengthy as English. I also spent at least 2 hours each day. I wanna know how do you keep the 200+?
Do you consult and ponder over them at times ?
@@tinotesu What language are you writing in? I could use it!
Journaling for me has always been a private, self-soothing kind of therapy. If I am struggling with some kind of stress or situation, I can not control or change, I write it out. It helps me get the feelings and thoughts out of my head and I can move on with my day. I also started keeping a journal after I had my first child. At first I started it for them to have when they get older, now I enjoy looking back at it. I have four children, a husband and a full-time job so the Journaling has not happened in a long time! But, I know I can always go back to it whenever I want and start back up.
I started this year and surprisingly I manifested almost all of my desires. Some of which more than I can imagine. I will continue to do so.
Yoh! This is so profound. Steve Jobs not being able to retrieve his files electronically but we can all read Leonardo’s journals. Been thinking about the best medium to store knowledge for future generations and this hit home. Thanks!
if we can't retrieve, does it exist?
I have about a dozen plastic file boxes filled with album/journals. I also have electronic files--- many are archived on websites. I started writing onlinebin 2000 because something interesting began to emerge.
My albums have diagrams, artwork, articles and journals--- depending on how deep I want to look back into things. I re-live the best and the worst of life and gain great joy and satisfaction of the sdpiritual growth I have realized, and documented. 💗 Like a conversation with God. 👀🐡
@@maryann7619 yes
My journals and planners going back to childhood are still legible. Not so with electronics
The Daily Stoic and the Daily Stoic email are responsible for my daily Journalling practice. I started three months into the National lockdown in the UAE when looking fro something to get through. It has helped me profoundly changed my mindset and life for the better. Thank you for that Ryan.
A sincere……..
Thank you…
Stoicism changed my girlfriend forever. She is so productive, and is now a founder of three companies. I wanna follow her steps, as well as support her stoicly.
That's very motivating
A man following the steps of his woman is not a man. Your role is to lead her, or you'll find real quick that she'll leave you for a man she can look up to. While she's learning on stoicism, you should learn on what it means to be a man and how to be one. No offense
@@nephastgweiz1022 saying 'no offence' after clearly being offensive also isn't very Alpha Male. So....there's that.
@@nephastgweiz1022 Would it be more acceptable to you if IKEMEN had said “learn from her example” or perhaps “be more like her”, i.e., be more productive, more successful? Saying “no offense (meant)” after making obviously offensive and misogynistic comments is, in and of itself, offensive to all of us here.
@Christopher Sove Sure, you guys can keep going the way you're already going, I'm trying to help a guy who will ultimately be heartbroken, but in the end it's not my problem
I love to write in cursive. Today’s world we are constantly typing into screens. There’s something so great about moving my hand across the page. I have kept journals for years, and I have experimented with writing with both hands, backward and forward!
Hebrew and Arabic are easy for the left hand since they go right to left, the same way it feels natural to write english with right hand, left to right and you'll also learn new language, that's always a plus
When Writing English backwards, the left hand makes more sense and you can see your hands mirroring the movements.
Left hand Ǝ,E right hand
I don't even know if your left or right handed lol hopefully this makes sense
I just realized how I needed this..! I was a journaler in my youth and I quit it long time ago. What it hits me is that I took different ways to replace that: mostly Facebook, those thinks that I could share with others, though they were inner thoughts. I emailed to myself for those things I didn't want to share. I even wrote in the cell phone notes or in loose papers... I think it's time to grow and come back to the old habit. Thank you so much for the enlightening!
What makes journaling an even better daily habit is writing with a fountain pen. I use Lamy fine nip, which is a low cost plastic pen that writes so well. I use my journal to:
1. Capture my initial thoughts
2. Set my meditation intention
3. Capture immediate thoughts from the meditation
4. Then insights
5. Then actions
6. Then I capture my intent for the day which I review in my evening meditation session
Started this new thing where I just let my thoughts loose on a page, no stress about how it looks or reads. Then I hand it over to my trusty sidekick, ChatGPT, to do the cleaning up. It turns my brain dumps into something that's easy on the eyes, still sounds like me, but way smoother.
Once it has tidied up my jumbled ideas into a neat, coherent format, I seek its insights on my writing. Honestly, it's a fascinating process that I highly recommend!
The first tip really works. I started journaling by writing only 5 sentences about what happened that day when I was 14. And I've pretty much never stopped journaling since.
What does one write in a daily "one sentence" journal? It may seem silly, but how does one start journaling in a positive way?
'I was aggressive in my response to Matt about Maths and I hope I can change that tomorrow.' is a simple, life changing (reminder to self to be kinder tomorrow) sentence. Also, 'today, I realised I don't like the boring flavour of tea.' is simple but life changing. Because the next time you go to buy tea, you double check yourself.
When I was journaling about my first marriage over the years, it became clear - it would´nt last.
Later I burned the written down and it was such a relief.
Nowadays I still have notebooks about My journey. And they are full of poems, recepies, laughter and being aware.
Instinctively I started journaling, not a dairy but at 16. I would write about the marvelous of my unknown life ahead of me.
I also had a master wish list and everything on my list had happened. It works.
I've been journaling since I was given a journal as a high school graduation present in 1975! In 2010 I saw David McCollough speak at a family history conference. He said something to the effect that only those who leave physically written journals and letters will be remembered. You just proved that with the anecdote about Steve Jobs. If someone doesn't know what to write about, think of what you'd like to know about your ancestors and then write about those things in your life. I think reading my past journals is interesting as I can see my growth and also how I've stayed the same.
McCullough*
Right, John Adams left a diary or journal, Bess Truman kept all of Harry Truman's letters
Yes I started in 1979. Before that I kept a diary. It’s amazing the differences I have seen in myself and then there are things that haven’t changed (that really need to lol).
I use the Julia’s morning pages approach. That and No 4 have been the biggest reasons why journaling has become so important to me. It’s like my therapist because something magical happens - as in the processing you start to get perspective and a wisdom starts to come through. Love the Anne Frank quote too
Thanks for video. Paper and pen-physically writing things down is somehow more real than things you type.
Waaayyy back in the 1960s, (1962 to be exact) I started a journal which I put on 3 x 5 cards because I didn't want anyone to find it. (Hey, I was 12 at the time!) Later, when I started attempting to write fiction, I would put the ideas and thoughts in an actual book. I keep separate books for dreams, ideas, etc. Somewhere along the line, I realized that I had to stop putting them in separate books because *everything was connected*. The dreams informed my writing, the writing informed my dreams; my dreams informed and were a result of my "mundane" life; my "mundane" life informed my dreams and my writing, so I stopped putting things in separate books. Then, when computers came around, I started writing things in the computer. Nowadays, if I'm looking for a specific incident/idea/dream, it's easier for me to go up to the folder and simply search for what I'm looking for and then, when I find the entry, to either note it in the present document as to where to find the idea, or to actually bookmark it, so all I have to do is click on the bookmark and it takes me back (or forward if I'm reading old entries) to the subject I'm researching.
BTW, my journal is now 57 years old and continuing. 😼
If there is such a thing as reincarnation, I full expect to come back in another life and find those journals.
Dear Ryan. You are light in this world.
I remember Journaling when I was in my teens. It was mostly teenage angst and my family read some parts of it. I burnt all my work down. I'm slowly understanding that I don't always have to make it about other people. I am now slightly more mature and will once again being writing in a physical diary with much clarity and focus on myself.
Watching these videos to get me back to my life, inspires me, and reminds me that Life is great! If it is super hard, I watch it or other videos repetitively about 5 times, until I feel calm inside. Thank you for doing your job.
People think I go too far caring about waterproof ink in my fountain pens but here he is talking about DaVinci's journals being readable up to this day. Now, do I hope to be as important as him? Nope. But I maybe I can leave something cool for my grandcrildren's children
I never realized the potential of journaling until I discovered the Stoics' approach. These habits have helped me gain clarity and perspective in challenging times. Highly recommend giving them a try! This video has given me a new appreciation for journaling. The Stoics' practices have brought a sense of calm and purpose to my life. Grateful for this valuable knowledge!
I don't journal. I'm dyslexic. I have horrible handwriting and I have ADHD. Writing is not conducive to creative thought for me. The physical task takes too much of my concentration for my creativity to actually flow. But I do sketch And have for years. Some of my sketches are completed drawings and some are just gestures with notes. Journaling does not have to take one specific form for it to be a valid practice. And it took me a long time to come to this realization. For years I beat myself up for not being able to journal or get anything out of the monumental effort that journaling took. Only when I let go of what I thought it should be did I really get something out of it.
Its perfectly fine my friend. Language is just a medium. Journal is similar to meditation. Mostly People write a journal, but its not limited to just writing. Your language is sketch/art, just like some scientists and artists.. on the other side, i am sure your journal looks more interesting with all sketch on it, giving it more visual experience.
Keep doing it. You are excellent. More power to you. 😊
I have dyslexia and I'm a copywriter.
What I personally do is sketchnotes, it's a combination of writing and drawing in one page.
Check youtube about it.
I hope that helps.
Recording audio entries with your iPhone or Android while you are walking or driving or doing chores or whenever. This has been killer for me. iPhone now has a pretty good built in Journal app which solves a lot of the blockers people struggle with in this video. This has been a total game changer for me and I now look forward to the time every day. I'm also planning an app to take the speech to text and much more.
Journaling is very important.We must record our lives and our deas. From South Africa
The Line A Day journals are my go to. They're so powerful. Easy. Simple. Powerful.
I'm going to start today, Journaling is tough for me. It's easier to read opposed to write ✍🏾. One sentence per day is doable 👌🏾👍🏾
Great! One step at a time. I want to start too
You can do it!
Stack this new practice of journaling onto something else that you already do. I’ve made it as a practice that I do for 15 minutes before noon everyday. Noon is my reminder to get this new habit accomplished. I’m seeing what works for me, too. Is it beneficial for me to do it before breakfast? I’m finding out that my stomach wants the 15 minutes to get over with instead of allowing me to let my thoughts flow.Carving out 15 minutes is doable for me right now. Begin.
Writing is a skill that can be trained... by writing.
think about it as writing a letter to yourself, or better talking to someone via paper. and you are free to write about anything you want: the weather, your mood, the music you are listening to, or the herbal tea you are drinking while journaling. its a place where you are totally free to say whatever you want.
I first wrote in my journal in the year 1996 as a displaced refugee, but I became more serious when we left northern Iraq to go on a perilous boat journey from Bali to Australia ~ and once we got out of detention centre in Australia, I started writing again and journaled using a physical book until I went to university and then at uni and on my travels I used applications like A note or Scrivener but I never gave up - that’s to say until I had kids. Nowadays I feel so different and I mean I miss it so freaking much. So the I finally bought a journal yesterday and I am going to JUST START! And I should mention Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is my fave book of all time!
Okay okay I’m I’ll be back
Journaling actually saved my life! So all these points hit home for me. Thanks for the reminder and spreading the word about how important it is to write in your journal every day.
Hi BookMattic, could you tell a bit more about how journaling saved your life? I'm feeling a bit stuck and wonder whether journaling would help me too. Thank you in advance.
@@titiavandeneertwegh3170 and to answer your question I do believe that journaling can help out anyone, in any state of mind, with any potential problem or just a way to vent.
@@BookMattic what type of journaling did you do? May I ask, if it’s not too personal, how journaling saved your life? When I read that I had wondered if you had been suicidal or how you meant it. Any details are helpful, whatever you’re willing to share. Thanks!
@@tnijoo5109 My journaling style is very reflective. When I open my journal, I ask myself a question like 'how is your day going?' or 'why did ______ happen today and how can I prevent (if negative)/repeat (if positive) it from happening again.' Or sometimes I just write without any prompt at all just to get whatever is in my mind down onto paper.
It saved my life not because I was suicidal but because I was depressed and I felt like if that depression continued that it could lead down the path of suicide (unlikely in my case). I did not want to go down that path so I decided that I would take to paper and vent all my thoughts and feelings, all the bad and the good. I looked at what I had written about my life and realized there was way more good than bad. This helped me to move out from depression and into the reality that life can be tough but there will always be a positive side to look forward to and strive toward.
@@BookMattic okay. This was really really helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain it. I really appreciate it! 💚
Thank you Ryan I find it so important for me as I get older the old brain is not what it used to be so thank you
I journal in the evening to cover my day...I also have 4 journals currently
1. Self-Care journal, which helps bc I'm also my dad's caregiver
2. Basic daily journal
3. A FML journal, that is only written in when my day is totally shitty
4. Commonplace Journal
Edit: I also have a separate Bible Study journal
Can you give more detail about them? I find myself struggling to separate mine because I'd end up sectioning everything 😂
I love that idea.
I have 3. A weekly journal which is essentially split into 3-2-1s (3 things you're grateful for/proud of, 2 things you wanna get better at and 1 thing you wanna achieve for the week), a daily journal where it's just one thing I'm proud off, one thing I wanna be better at and one thing I wanna achieve for the day and then another journal where it's more expressive, so I'll pen down my thoughts for the morning and night. It's helped me immensely
@@mukalolungile9075 They are 4 to 5 journals that have their own notebook or whatever I can use for a journal. They are individual.... Totally separate each other
Drop the bible journal. Concentrate on what correspondence with reality.
The momentum of this is so powerful I'm just getting started and it's surprising how diverse your thoughts are and the attention of how you sort it is fascinating.
Thank you Ryan for introducing me to stoicism. It all started when my sister-in-law mentioned the title of a book, your book, The Obstacle is the Way. That same night I purchased it to listen on Audible. Since then I have listened to several of your books and podcasts and I journal. Memento mori.
Andy
Thanks for this video. I heard you say something about journaling in a previous video and I really want to start recording my thoughts, feelings, and things I've done to have record and for self improvement. I know I can't remember everything so I hope journaling can give me peace of mind and a foundation to build upon.
I just started Two days ago! I couldn't make an entry yesterday though, but I'll write yesterday's entry today so I can make up for it. I was very worried that Journaling would be useless for me because I didn't have a format and I didn't write consicely and clearly as other people do. But I realized that it's all about just starting. We can get better at doing anything by doing more, all we need to do is just start. regardless of situation.
I think almost everything creative is just about starting
I like to think of days as being separate. Not Day 2, Day 3, ugh can't be asked Day 4...Day 5... every day is Day 1.
Hope you managed to keep going. You took the time to write a YT comment, similar time to write in your journal.
Keep going..
As someone who struggled to make journaling stick, I found that if I miss a day and try to summarize it the next day, it would become a hinderance for me. I felt like I had to play catch up all the time. Unless there’s something you really want to remember from
the last day, I recommend just skipping it and writing about your current day while your thoughts are fresh, otherwise yesterday’s thoughts start to muddle with today’s thoughts and so on :)
Just start! Good idea. We can sometimes get stuck into thinking that we must perform like a master, but we need to remember that the master was once an apprentice too. Start now, and you have a chance at mastery. Don't start, and you will never be a master.
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I started my journaling journey in my 3rd year of medical school
I recently started making journals on amazon
Been journaling for 35 years. It’s indispensable to me. Recently, read and burned about twenty years of them. It was extremely cathartic. Think I’ll add an every ten year burning. Just one journaler’s process ❤️🔥📚
Why do you burn it?
@@bornalisinha4401 Burning is a release. Also, years of journals are heavy, physically and psychologically. Burning them is a way to let go, to be lighter. I read them, keep passages I don’t want to forget, and release the rest.
I was thinking of doing the same!
I've tried it. It's like externalizing the garbage that goes through my head. It actually was making me feel worse.
Thankfully Thoreau didn’t burn his journals.
I appreciate the message. I wish your DELIVERY was a little calmer and more soothing.
i just bought your book and your journal .. thank you so much for being you....
I am an avid journaler, but I found it impossible to write freely of my feelings and observations when writing in pen and paper because the thought of my private writings being found, or upon my eventual death, having my family finding them, made me sensor my writing intentionally or unintentionally. When "password protect" on computers came into being, that freed me to journal more openly.I have been doing so ever since (25 years?).
Sameeee
Thats the reason why I made up my own cryptography. It took a few month till I wrote it fluently but since then Im feeling save and free
I feel you bro
I constantly struggle with boundaries in my life. People reading my journals. People putting pressure on my to stop writing journals. People sulking because I won't let them read my journals. People mocking that I write a journal. I can see why Davinci wrote in code.
Just started in 'the artist way' where one of the tasks is to do morning pages. I'm gonna start this week. The effects of journaling sounds amazing. I never heard of the benefits before.
I loved The Artist's Way! Enjoy your creative journey, and thanks for making our world more lovely by cracking into your own creativity! I wish you courage and joy.
This is great and motivational. I have had a brain injury in the past, and I found that writing has helped clear my head and my brain. I try and write down thoughts and how I'm feeling more than anything, however, I haven't written in such a long time. Maybe this is a calling for me to start writing again?
I have been keeping a journal for over five years now. I would highly recommend it. My book Millennial Money Mindset notes were all created in my journal
As a second language learners journaling was the only way out for me to break through to English language. Though back then I didn't know about journaling being actually practice. For I was just copying the Dracula's characters' habits for keeping journals
Agreed 💯 ✔️🤝.... journaling is a game changer. Apart from the points mentioned here, would like to add how writing down can clear ur thoughts and a muddled brain. It's a kind of meditation all in all.
It’s been a long time since I wrote journal again. I always wanted to start again, but I could’t do it. Today I plant the first seed again, I cannot imagine how much I will thank myself in the future.
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Journaling is great and I like to do it using a fountain-pen as it helps to master a great handwriting. But a disadvantage writing is that you can't search later on for things you know you have been writing about. As our brain is limited more and more people are creating an extended brain. I did that first by creating directory structures on disk more than 25 years ago. It helped to search better but it did not connect idea's together. I than stumbled on a tool called "Thebrain". This tools allowed me to input thought and notes (log entries) and allowed connection to other thought and idea's. After about 15 years of using this tool and putting information in to it I have an extended brain. It makes me super fast finding information, my colleagues always come to me for finding information, as I can bring more than google in the way information is connected to other thoughts. In fact I saw a book called "The second brain" which in fact describes the process I did during that 20 years. Another book called "ZetelKasten" and "How to take smart notes" are crucial in building a second brain based on note taking.
Oh my gosh, I was reading your comment and immediately thought “is this what I just started?” I had told my friends I need a second brain! I walked into library one day and there was THE BOOK! Building a second brain! well guess what I bought the cd of the book, and have started two files as I learn that my brain was not meant for storage but for ideas! I love this concept….ph by the way the book is BUILDING A SECOND BRAIN by Tiago Forte.
My two experimental files: THE FIRST CONTAINER (that I found in a consignment store … the second I found in a thrift store ! Lol
one holds index cards in two areas….A-Z FILE TABS and JAN-DEC FILE TABS
The second one that I actually bought two of since an antique wood look to it….is now holding index cards based on several categories so far……each tab has a category for my second brain, my storage brain, to peruse lol……such as: BOOK TITLES TO INDULGE IN, CAREGIVING TIPS OR QUOTES, MY OWN FLEETING
THOUGHTS I DO NOT WANT TO FORGET, COMPUTER “how to tips “ TO NOT FORGET, HEALTH, ONE FILE TAB REGARDING OUR 2 DAUGHTERS that I need to remember, DECLUTTERING WHAT, SUBSCRIPTIONS I PAY FOR, LOST AND FOUND..(to be sure I remember where I put something) MEMORY ( things I MUST REMEMBER BUT NO NEED TO STORE IN MY BRAIN) … and the list goes on….such a joy to have a second brain to access lol, and to minimize what I have to store in my first brain! The whole idea is why do we want to have to store in our brains the same thing over and over and over, when instead it can be stored on an index card! And the other highlight, I don’t have to turn on and off the computer to find my info. Under memory tab is bank rules, don’t forget mouse traps put out lol, car have-to to dos…
The month tabs in other index file are so helpful to remind me of upcoming events or big bills, the A-Z covers vaccine cards, passwords, handyman names and numbers, doctors, business cards etc.
Hope this gave someone some insight
You made some very valid points in this video. Thanks for sharing!
At the beginning of this year I was faced with a potentially critical medical condition. Along with delays, and waiting for test results and treatment. I sort of kept a journal during that time. In my case, treatment was successful, and I'm back --but I've been very haphazard in writing since that time, however.
I started journaling years ago when working for a charter bus Company Atlantic Coast and recieved for Christmas and never stopped.
I have been journaling now for just a little over 2 years and it has helped me understand myself, stay sober and reflect. The part about physical journal is a personal preference, I say just journal whatever media you choose.
"One Line Per Day Journal" ... I think THIS may be MY Game Changer. I can do one line without any effort, and if I add a few more lines, I have recorded my history.
#4 getting thoughts out of your head is the most interesting one
Just an FYI..Nelson Mandela calendar and journals are available at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, he NEVER used a computer or electronic device for his journals...There were literally rows and rows of calendars and journals...All hand written entries of course...100% solid content! Thank you!
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💕 Things I do/ wish I do 💕
I do:
~ journal everyday
~ practice self-love
~ have an even amount of life and phone
~ help myself grow better
I wish I do:
~ take time out of my day to shower and refresh everyday
~ meditate everyday
~ read everyday
~ have full self-love
~ have full self-healing
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Dont take your wishes/don’ts as bad things you should look down on. Look at them as ways to improve your health. They aren’t challenges, theyre just new strengths.
I appreciate the effort you put into your videos. Top-notch!
someday you could will be remembered as a great philosopher and stoic enthusiast. Congratulations on transcending.
Saying journaling without technology can feel very ableist towards people who have disabilities that make physical writing difficult. I have had to go seasons of journaling with technology and it’s just as valid and when I’m able to use pen and paper. If you’re reading this and need to use technology, you are valid. Your journaling is valid. It’s just as deep and meaningful as paper journaling. Your writing matters and is a perspective only you can share.
I have started journaling on my iPad… but that line about Steve Jobs not being able to access old files while you can still read Leonardo Da Vinci’s work is eye opening. I might have to write things down…
Thank you. Nice to see a guy talking about journaling.
I'm thoroughly captivated by this. I recently found something similar, and it was life-changing. "Better Sleep Better Life" by William Brook
Went to your store and picked up a book because I wanted to read up on stoicism and your book was a good informative piece on the lives of the philosophers
i started journaling in 2015 because of a friend i saw reflecting on all of the events we had during a skate trip the year prior.
Good stuff!
I used to journal a lot when I was a child/teenager until I found out that someone I (should) trust the most, has read them. Ever since, I do not trust anyone, become secretive and keep to myself. I still do journaling sometimes, but in a file with Microsoft Word protected with a password. Starting a physical journal is just a crazy idea for me, it's beyond my imagination ¹/⁹¹²²
I hear you. I have begun to write on sheets of paper then immediately discard. The writing helps but I don't need to keep it.
Oh dude, I hear ya. I write for hours, but it's all behind multiple passwords on my phone. The betrayal of someone reading your journal cuts deep. After it happened it was a long time before I could even start again. And they easily do transfer between phones. They can be moved along with you if you plan for it and don't just leave it on an old device.
@@kirrileepoehland9994 Great idea. But don't you want to look back on what you've written at a particular point in time? I don't journal at all, due to concerns about privacy
What if you found a box with a lock where you could put your journal when you don't use if
Your voice is so calming
I suppose when you write, you create a way to output processed thoughts. Good or bad. Not sure why, but as you write...your ability to process stuff, improves over time.
Exactly. The act of journaling is the act of processing your thoughts and emotions by identifying, formulating and abstracting them from yourself to analyze. Talking through, or even just dumping your thoughts onto other people is also a kind of processing. Journaling is just more personal.
I started bullet journaling in A4 recently and realised I needed at least a line a day, to make a note of how I felt and what I learnt.
أحس لو اتقنت اللغة بتكون القناة هذي كنز بالنسبة لي✨
That's a great idea. Normally I spend each morning reading. Now it's time to get back into writing.
Hey i just started journaling..i really liked ur video...i am going to make this useful for me..thank u
Journaling helps to wipe out the tensed emotions. Sometimes, it works like magic. Journaling on digital platform helps to have a structered sense whereas on a physical journaling we find open journal type of feeling.
9:37 Thanks for this. I’m finding your tips helpful.
Also made a video on how and why to journal. For your point about the physical journal, what I found is there is something about putting thoughts (intangible) into a tangible written format and there is memory in writing and intentionality that's just different.
Love this. Thank you so much!
I am a philosophy teacher and stoicism changed my life for the better. And I love your way in putting it out there. However journaling is something I struggle to keep as a habit. Does it happen to you to go back to your old writings and to hate what is written and maybe throw it away? This happens to me. What do you think that is?
One thing i learned about journaling is that don't take it as something that has to be productive rather let it be your reflection time a journal where your many thoughts are free to be written and feelings and the important things to you hope this helps
You are not what you write and you are not what you think. Better out on the page than endlessly swirling in your head
Yes this has happened to me-I will go back and read and for various reasons (I don’t like my writing, I don’t like my thoughts) I will throw it away. If I were to make a guess I would say that you suffer from perfectionism and control issues like I do - it’s like we want these journals to be Nobel prize winning documents.
I write a short paragraph every day in my five year diary (I am on the second year). So I decided to also write a daily emotional journal, but for some reason I just can’t keep it up. It’s not like I have to write something emotional every day, I can just write observations, or elaborate on my day, but it’s just not working out and I am stressing about getting behind. So I guess I am just going to have to drop it.
journaling is my self relationship
whew ... i gotta lotta anger pain
63yrs old still seeking
Done! I’ll start today
I think I am writing dairy since my 7th class.
The best Journal is remembering my entire day and writing in my book that night before sleep
Do you ever read it back? How does it help? Thanks
You are definitely an inspiration.
Thank you for this great video
Sum up this view of stoicism - NEVER DON'T STOP ALWAYS NEVER AND ALWAYS DON'T START AND STOP ALWAYS AND NEVER!
"just start" best advice
I have been listening to your videos for a month now, and they do make alot of sense. I am not sure what to do about myself and I ask myself today, " who is in charge" of me?? I have done this several times, I will get ready in my workout clothes to go to the gym, and then I don't end up going, I distract myself with other things like TH-cam. So, who in the hell is running my life, apparently its not ME, I have the desire but no motivation :-((
Search “dopamine detox”. I think that might help or give you somewhere to start. Wishing you good luck
Basically, there are three parts of our brain responsible for behaviour: oldest "reptilian brain" - responsible for basic bodily functions and instincts; then "mammal brain" - responsible for emotions, habits; and the most evolutionary recent one - "human brain" responsible for rationale, planning and other high level functions. Obviously, when we seek distraction from quick dopamine sources it's the "mammal brain" that overpowers our decision making. You need to learn to suppress your "mammal brain" and nurture your rational brain. Stoicism principles is very much about that.
Thank you for your Books!
Regarding the physical journal. To me that is also about being better able to let go of things because I wrote them with pen on paper. Typing always feels less personal and therefore doesn't work well for me
*"Everything in life is easier when you don't concern yourself with what other people are doing."*
The chances of you seeing this comment is pretty low, but if you did, *I hope you have an amazing day.* 🖤
Thank you brother!