Write Everything Down // The Life Changing Daily Journal

Every day is a blank page i knew that was going to be cheesy and it's cheesy but it's true writing gets you alone with yourself and your thoughts if i looked over the past year and said what is the number one thing that has completely changed my life that's also dramatic so we have cheesy and dramatic it's writing it's having a daily journal it's taking my thoughts that are in my head and putting them on paper okay i'm done talking to you like you're an elementary school child you're an adult and the truth is is that although school has ended it's important that we continue to write every single day and i'm about to tell you why people tell me all the time.

That they don't like writing i get it it's like saying you don't like to read but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't do it i don't like going to the gym i don't like running i don't like eating healthier sometimes i don't like avoiding the dessert bar but it doesn't mean it's not good for me writing is so good for you the number one thing that has helped me with my writing is writing with no agenda my pastor told me you need to sit down every day and write something and it's for you it's not for anybody else maybe later down the road but right now it's for you right with no agenda i'm gonna sit down open my journal and i'm going to write why am i emphasizing that you should write on paper it's because it's easier to focus when you're not on your computer or your phone you're going to have notifications and pop-ups all the time i really want to get along with my thoughts my writing time is my time where i'm completely alone start every day with an open journal if you say i don't have anything to say i'm i don't have any thoughts right.

Now but your journal's closed and your pins all the way over here of course you're not going to say anything start a moment every day with an open journal it's okay to sit and wait if you don't have a thought or you don't have something to write just sit there just wait if four words come to your mind write down those four words at the end of the four words you might have a whole sentence to write after that and then a whole paragraph but you never get to the paragraph if you don't write the four words someone once said that ideas are like salmon going down a river no matter how much you think you will you will not remember that idea that fish is going down the river that idea that vision for your company that thing you want to say to your friend you're not going to remember it so write it down here's what's so beautiful about writing for me you do so much stuff for other people you give of yourself you give of your time this is for you this time where it's you and your journal it's for your life to improve it's for you to have better mental health.

 

I want to just set you free for a second because there's no pressure in your daily writing time because it's for you and no one's going to read it now obviously some of these things may make their way on onto Facebook or onto your blog or onto a book or something else that you're writing or working on or a video but it their conception it's only you so remove any of the pressure and just write here's what i do every day try my best i have a daily thought journal it's also where i kind of do some vision then i try to write two crappy pages a day Tim Ferriss said that in a writing video that i saw once just write down two crappy pages and maybe in the middle somewhere there's something really good but you've just got to free yourself and let yourself write the third thing i do is a to-do list i put my to-do list right beside my desk and i keep my eye on it throughout the day one thing i've realized is that my memory is so much better when you write things down that's.

An amazing you know revolutionary thought there you write things down you remember them i always used to complain i'm so scatterbrained i can never remember anything then i started writing down my thoughts not so scatterbrained anymore this one's actually a fun little test next time you're at a meeting or at a coffee with a friend take some notes while they're talking these people will start looking at you funny like you're going to remember a few things from the conversation but take notes while they're talking they're going to feel really important as you're listening to them it makes them feel like you're listening on another level because you are you're writing things down for yourself but it just writing engages you in a new way if we want to talk about manifestation and visions people have vision boards they say this is where i want to be in five years goals i'm all about writing all that stuff down but there's nothing like looking back on something you accomplished.

If you write down on that to-do list or you write down something that you want to do in the next five years the next year and you're able to look back on that paper you wrote it down before it happened it's a beautiful feeling there's nothing like it  i always say pretend you have to follow the map of what you write pretend that what you write down is the map you're following you better be detailed and you better be thorough with your thoughts i love to say write your thoughts down like you have to teach them some people say read a book like you have to teach it just gives you another level of interest in another level of focus if you say when i write this down I'm pretending like i have to go and teach it to somebody what you're really doing is teaching yourself you're really growing internally and you're growing in your wisdom.

And your level of knowledge your journal allows for focus in the present but also memory for the future it allows you to focus on this moment but allows you like i said down the road you'll be able to look back and say that was awesome once i get everything on paper usually every few weeks I'll go and copy it over to Evernote or another note-taking app this actually allows you to think back over all your thoughts as you're copying them to a computer and also that keeps them safer if something were to happen to your journals you have them on your computer and you can share them pretty easily one thing that helps me at the end of the day if I'm feeling really tired or just my eyes are tired i don't want to focus I'll just turn on voice memos on my phone or you can buy a little recorder and I'll just record my thoughts this helps if you're a communicator or if you're making videos or sharing ideas or vision with your team or company in leadership at least you save that thought like i said it's like a salmon might be gone if you don't write it down or record it time for a little Jordan encouragement here you are more interesting than you think.

 

I had to preach this to myself we live our whole lives in our minds.

So we don't think we're interesting because we think about it all the time but you've got to realize not everybody thinks about what you think about not everything that's in your mind is going to manifest itself into your life so you want to write things down because you are more interesting than you think and you have things in your life and thoughts that you have that would be really interesting to other people or they would encourage other people or they would help you get to where you want to go and if you don't write them down you may forget about them you have something to contribute to the world you have something to say even if it's one person to encourage or one person to help lead them on the right path you have something to contribute and you can contribute better when you write things down i love it when a preacher is just preaching real good and he says i'm preaching myself happy i love that.

So i'm gonna say encourage yourself girl encourage yourself today if you don't feel it write it down i'm not one of these people it's like if they're like got a cold like i'm not sick i'm not sick i'm not sick i don't believe in that craziness if you're sick go get some meds but encourage yourself say the things that you wish somebody would have said to you or unsay the things that people shouldn't have said to you encourage yourself so if you don't believe me take the challenge take the challenge and say for the next seven days i'm gonna write something just write down you have paper somewhere you have a pen somewhere for the next seven days write things down then make it 30 days then make it a couple of months make that your goal because it's so beautiful to put your thoughts out on paper and say i thought that or i said that or i wrote that down three years ago that i wanted to be in a four-bedroom house and now i'm in a four-bedroom house.

You know there's so much power in what we speak and even more power in what we speak over ourselves just write write every day maybe you write a little booklet and you give it to your kids maybe you have lessons on life maybe you become a better person and maybe it is just for you to sit back with a cup of coffee and enjoy later on in life but i promise you just like getting away from social media and getting away from all these things that we talk about on this channel in your alone time take some time to write down your thoughts encourage yourself you have power you have the ability to not just change the way you think but change the way you behave change your disciplines change your actions and your life will be on a better path when you start to write things down and believe that you have something to say i want.

To share with you a few of the different types of journals that i have and this might help you i have a journal that has grids in it that's where i like to write down points or what i would call my idea journal some vision this journal has lines in it so i write longer form or multiple pages in this journal and then i have my note cards i love this to be able to just write down little ideas if i want to create an outline or I'm working on a YouTube video i just put my different ideas or sections on my note card and then i can kind of move them around and adjust the way that i want them to look and lastly of course the legal pad this is like amazon basic super cheap thanks so much for watching leave your thoughts or questions in the comment section below and I'll reply to each one of them also don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you're interested in more videos on faith creativity and entrepreneurship.

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