Allison MaslanCEO & Business Scaling Expert | WSJ Bestselling Author

The One Practice That Changed Everything for Me

27 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Allison Maslan has kept a journal since age 16. She uses it to clear mental clutter and find focus, especially with one prompt: "what is it that I need to know that I already know?" It surfaces insights she already has but hasn't acted on.

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I started journaling at age 16 and I have not stopped. When I was younger, I used to journal about all the things that were happening or the emotional things that I was going through. But as an adult and as a business owner, we always are filling our head with so many things, so many demands. And so for me to open up to a blank page where I would just allow my creativity to hit the page, just whatever is going to come out. And sometimes I'll even ask myself, what is it that I need to know that I already know that I know? And I let it spill out on the page, and then I focus in that direction.