3765: Calm Your Anxiety with a Self Awareness Journal by Karl Staib of Dig To Fly on How to Reduce Stress

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3765: Karl Staib shares how journaling and meditation can help calm anxiety by bringing more awareness to everyday emotions and expectations. Through the practice of an awareness journal, he shows how tuning into your feelings can transform stress into self-understanding, creating more presence, resilience, and joy in daily life. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://digtofly.com/calm-your-anxiety-with-a-self-awareness-journal/ Quotes to ponder: "Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important." "When you start your awareness journal you want to keep track of your thoughts and how they trigger your emotions." "The most amazing part of an Awareness Journal is that life becomes more joyful." Episode references: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-Powerful/dp/0743269519 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily. Calm Your Anxiety with a self-awareness journal by Carl Stabe of
0:06.8	Digtofly.com. And I'm Justin Mollick, the guy who's been reading to you from articles, book excerpts,
0:12.8	and more every day, including holidays, covering personal development or self-help,
0:17.4	how to live a better life, and a lot more. And now let's get right to it and start
0:21.1	optimizing your life. Calm Your Anxiety with a self-awareness journal by Carl Stabe of dig to fly.com.
0:33.8	I hung my head. There just didn't feel like a way I could keep up with everything.
0:38.7	That's when I hung up the phone and hopped into the next meeting.
0:41.7	I just didn't have time to think about it right now.
0:44.2	I need to make more time, was my first thought.
0:47.6	Then I thought about a quote I recently read, most of us spend too much time on what is
0:52.2	urgent and not enough time on what is important.
0:56.4	Stephen R. Covey.
0:57.9	I wasn't making conscious choices with my time, so I decided to make a change.
1:02.5	I decided to start with the basics.
1:05.4	I'd ask myself a simple question that I don't ask myself enough throughout the day.
1:10.5	How am I feeling right now? This question
1:14.0	opened me up to so much that I was ignoring before. I noticed that I fell into the habit my father
1:20.0	modeled for me. He would just push his feelings aside and ignore them until they went away.
1:25.7	I would just tackle the next task instead of acknowledging what was going on inside of me.
1:30.8	I still do this quite a bit.
1:32.7	By journaling about the present moment and how I felt,
1:35.6	I revealed new parts of myself that I didn't even realize were there.
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