Hey friends, Jen here, and this is a happy bit. Many of you keep a journal, and I want to say,

that is fantastic. Keep it up. Journaling helps you see the big picture of your life. Whether you write

down what you're grateful for or your goals or the things you do each day, it all helps you see

the big picture of your life to see where you've come from, where you're going,

and what trajectory you're on. So I love journaling. I want to tell you about a type of

journaling you might not have tried before. It's called vision journaling. Vision journaling is when

you write about something you want to accomplish or to experience or to have happen as if it's already real.

For example, let's say you want to be happier in your family, closer and more respectful of each

other. Then you write about this as if it's already true in this special journal that you set

aside just for vision journaling.

How would that look? Well, you would write in the present tense as if it's already true.

I love my family. I love how close we are. I love how my husband gives me so many hugs and I just

feel so happy to be married to him. I'm really grateful that our teenagers

love to share stories and experiences with me. I'm so glad we play family games and have family

meals and go on hikes together. We have a fantastic family. Well, as you write something like

this, you start to feel the energy of it,

the emotion of it, and that feels really good. It builds confidence and motivation.

It gives you an image of what could be so that it's easier to make that a reality.

It also builds neural connections in your brain, which is powerful because then your brain more

automatically is going to take you down those neural pathways that you want.

This is a real phenomenon.

There was a study at Harvard where researchers created two groups of students.

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