the power of journaling
Morning Pages is another tactic for getting out of your own way like this – a ritual, in a deep sense of that word, because what's key is the observance, not harnessing that observance for some particular outcome. Everyone should have one or two such rituals, if you ask me, to help unclench one's agitated grip on the world and to encounter reality
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Three pages a day
Journaling is and has long been a path to self-awareness. It’s a way to understand who we are now and who we’ve been. It’s how we discover who we hope to become and why we made the choices we did. It’s how we stop being such strangers to ourselves and get to what’s underneath, to make sense of the complications and multitudes we contain.
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What The Wise Know—And Fools Ignore
Daily Stoic
Writing in a journal will help you connect the dots of your journey. It’s a way of keeping track of your thoughts, a tool for seeing and understanding your progress. A journal keeps you centered; it allows you to see fears that recur—and to recognize ones that fall away.
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
there's something transformative about achieving a third-person perspective on the contents of your mind by externalizing them on paper. You know how it's often easy to see what someone else needs to do about their problems? Externalising your thoughts can trigger similar insights on your own behalf. And even when it doesn't, the shift in... See more
Oliver Burkeman • Three pages a day
writing it down on paper or on a computer where you can see it is because the brain, unlikely as it may sound, is no place for serious thinking. Any time you have serious thinking to do, the first step is to get the whole shootin’ match out of your head and set it up someplace where you can walk around it and see it from all sides. Attack, switch
... See moreJed McKenna • Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing: Book One of The Enlightenment Trilogy
Journaling is the practice of self-discovery by writing to yourself.