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Focus on This

#62: Reflections on a Journaling Experiment

Focus on This

Michael Hyatt

Education, Timemanagement, Productivity, Focus, Organization, Michaelhyatt, Planning, Achievement, Business, Worklifebalance, Goals

4.5 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

You’re convinced journaling is a good idea, but you just can’t seem to get started. You have a laundry list of reasons—there’s no time, getting started is overwhelming, or you just can’t seem to find a rhythm that works. But you’re tired of watching yourself make the same mistakes and lose out on personal and professional growth. Here’s the good news: you’re not the first person who’s tried to start a journaling practice. Our team, representing a range of journaling experience, just finished a 30-day experiment with the brand-new Full Focus Journal. In this episode, we’ll dive into what we learned and invite you to try an experiment of your own by joining us for a community-wide journaling challenge. In this episode, you’ll discover— How to fine-tune when and where you journal Why you might need to “mature” your view of journaling The value of prioritizing journaling in challenging seasons How journaling shapes the way you move through your day What makes accountability so powerful—and how you can leverage it This episode of Focus on This is brought to you by our new Full Focus Journal and Black Executive Pocket planner. Get them today at fullfocusstore.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, what do you think is worse? Living in constant reaction mode or missing the goals that

0:07.6

matter most? Well, what if I told you both problems stem from the same route? And you can actually

0:13.2

fix it, starting now. Join our free training where Michael Hyatt and Marissa Hyatt are going to be talking about rising above

0:22.4

the noise, reclaim your potential and achieve your goals in 2025. It's not just another online

0:28.2

training. This is your chance to make real progress. Spaces are limited, so sign up now

0:34.2

at fullfocus.com forward slash rise.

0:44.3

Hey everybody, this is Nick.

0:47.5

And real quick, we've been talking about journaling here on the podcast,

0:54.1

and you can now get the brand new full focus journal right now at full focus store.com. And if that weren't enough, you can also get the brand new black executive pocket

0:59.5

planner. People have been asking for it, and now it's there.

1:02.9

Those are both at fullfocusstore.com.

1:06.2

Go check it out.

1:25.0

Welcome to another episode of Focus on This, the most productive podcast on the internet, so you can banish distractions, get the right stuff done, and finally start loving Mondays.

1:28.8

I'm Verbs here with Courtney Baker and Blake Stratton.

1:32.1

What is up, Burbs? And also Courtney, how are you?

1:48.4

Yeah, it's good. It's good? Yeah. You're not in your closet right now. I'm not. I am begged to start recording back in my office. Power play. I love the closet and, you know, setting up a whole podcast studio down there and

1:57.4

sitting in an uncomfortable chair while I'm eight months pregnant. But, you know,

2:02.5

it kind of was wearing on me just a little bit. So it's, yeah, nice to be not surrounded by

2:08.6

my clothes for a hot second. Verbs, how are you doing? You know what? I'm doing great. Courtney,

2:13.9

thank you for asking. You know, luckily enough, we did stock up on some toilet paper, so we haven't felt any of those woes recently.

2:22.7

Although, I will say, if you have, I think I've said this before in another episode, if you do have younger children, it would be wise to stick with two-ply toilet paper.

2:32.0

We may not need to talk about toilet paper and scarcity of toilet paper.

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