Christie JungeA Plus Solutions Inc. · CEO | Profit First Professional

The REAL Power of Journaling

17 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this short dialogue, Speaker A shares his personal journaling practice, revealing how he originally thought a journal was for recording daily positives but learned from a friend that its true purpose is to expel any thoughts, regardless of tone. He describes using a paper journal during periods of depression and a recent financial challenge, writing down anger, disappointment, and other difficult emotions, which provided a release of steam. Speaker B affirms the transformative power of putting thoughts on the page, acknowledging that while it can be hard to start when feeling down, the act of writing leads to significant emotional shift.

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Another thing is journal. Journal, journal, journal. I do it every day, pretty much most days. I did a paper journal. What I thought a journal was, wrongly, was write down like, what's the good things of today? Self-positive talk. And a friend of mine, Joe Spano, said, "Mike, a journal is about expelling any thoughts." So he goes, "It doesn't matter what you write, it matters that you let it out." During periods of depression, I sometimes put angry thoughts. When we're going through this challenge, this financial challenge a year ago, I would just lay out my thoughts about this and it'd be, anger and disappointment and all those things. But what was fantastic was once I wrote them down, the steam was out.
Yeah. It's like they get captured there in the words on the page. It's a big transformative moment. And I know it's so easy to say, do it. And when you're feeling down, we sometimes resist these kinds of things. We do. But once you do do it, it is transformative. Transformative.