062: UJ Ramdas – The Five-Minute Journal | Pushing Through Your Comfort Zone | Develop An Attitude Of Gratitude
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2015
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On this week's show, we are speaking with UJ Ramdas, co-creator of The Five-Minute Journal. He is passionate about bringing together practical psychology and business to create a better world. UJ loves the wilderness, eastern meditative practices, and a good cup of tea. He is enthusiastic about human performance.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Pushing through your comfort zone
- How The Five-Minute Journal came to be
- The Five-Minute Journal iOS app will be back, better than ever
- Is there a difference between writing and typing a journal entry?
- Gratitude is a whole mind process, thinking & feeling
- People who practice gratitude exercise more & have an elevated happiness baseline
- The 101 on affirmations
- The small things are the amazing things
- Secrets to keeping consistent with journaling
- Journaling as a couple can bring you closer together
- How to get your subconscious to work for you while you sleep
- UJ's nighttime and morning routines
- Positive psychology allows people to go from good to great
- How hypnosis can help you break habits by tapping into the subconscious
- Three strategies for taking your happiness to the next level
Related links:
Sunwarrior <== 20% off all Sunwarrior products & free shipping over $50 (US only)
Follow UJ Ramdas on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Productivity Planner Kickstarter
Steven Pressfield - The War of Art (book)
Robert Cialdini - Influence (book)
Daniel Gilbert - Stumbling on Happiness (book)
Josh Waitzkin - The Art of Learning (book)
Related episodes:
278: Robin Sharma – The 5 AM Club • Mastery Is A Process • The Power Of Solitude
232: Sarah Wilson – Normalizing Anxiety • The Impact Of Gratitude On Your Brain • Just Walk
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:13.7 | Welcome to the 60 second episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast |
| 0:14.4 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your health to the next level |
| 0:20.0 | Today our featured guest is UJ Ram Das of the five minute journal and this journal has been brought up on a number of previous episodes so we are really excited to bring UJ on to talk about the journal, talk about a lot of other great health related |
| 0:37.0 | information and yeah you guys are going to love this one. |
| 0:41.0 | Now I'm going to read aloud an iTunes review and this one is by LY's 2015 and the title is so |
| 0:50.4 | enjoyable this is a five-star review and this person writes, I started |
| 0:56.0 | listening to the Ultimate Health Podcast a few weeks back and I have to say I'm |
| 1:00.3 | loving them so much. I have learned a ton and love all your tips. I'm trying to |
| 1:05.4 | implement something every week. Sure beats reading when you're stuck for time |
| 1:09.7 | keep up the great work you too. Well, thank you, L-wise, really kind review. We really appreciate you and everybody else that's taking the time to leave these kind words for us in iTunes and I agree whether you're stuck for time or not |
| 1:26.2 | Podcasts are a great way to learn and pass the time |
| 1:30.8 | So now I'm gonna give a shout out to our show sponsor Sun Warrior and I'm going to give you guys a little recipe today. I think you'll be excited about that. So today is Sunday here in Toronto. it's also fall, and quarterly I run a retreat hosted at my |
| 1:46.9 | food studio here in Toronto. |
| 1:49.5 | And I give little loop bags full of goodies and of course I gave everyone some |
| 1:54.1 | Sun Warrior samples and all kinds of goodies and everyone got to go home with that |
| 1:58.0 | but to show everyone how to use it I made a recipe today that was really nice for the fall and to give you |
| 2:04.8 | guys an idea of how to make this and you know when it comes to smoothies in the |
| 2:08.8 | winter and fall time it's about changing it up a little bit doesn't doesn't always have to be a frozen, cold, |
| 2:14.0 | berry-based smoothie. You can really work with the season and put different things in it. |
| 2:18.0 | So today, what this smoothie comprised of was a hemp milk so I did about a couple of |
| 2:25.3 | tablespoons of hemp seeds with about four cups of water blended that up that's a |
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