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Today, I'm going to be talking about what I feel might be one of the most important routines

that you can pull into your life.

It will help you for yourself. It will help you for your

interaction with everyone that you know, your relationships with everyone that you know. It'll help you

for your own personal development, spiritual development, physical development. It will help you be a

better parent. It'll help you be a better person. So I'd say it's pretty damn important. Today we're going to be

talking about how to start journaling and how to create a journaling practice. And I understand that

when you hear that you should start journaling, it sounds kind of weird. Why would I sit down and

like put my thoughts on a piece of paper? I've already got my thoughts in my head.

What am I going to do? Sit down and be like, dear diary, here's what I did today.

Like am I trying to just talk about what I did for the day? And for me, I did it wrong for years.

I used to think that it was like that where I would sit down and just kind of put what happened

at the end of the day and here's what my day looked

like. A journaling practice is not creating a diary where you put all of this is what happened today

and this is how I felt and all of that. For me, I didn't see a whole lot of value in journaling

because that's what I thought that it was. And then one day, I was having a

really hard day and I started out with just writing a whole bunch of questions down. And I remember

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