Dave WordenTriumph Business Solutions · Founder

The REAL Power of Journaling

17 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker A shares his personal journaling routine, revealing how he originally approached journaling as a list of daily positives but, after a friend's advice, shifted to using a journal as a tool for expelling any thoughts—especially negative or angry ones. He describes using the practice during periods of depression and a significant financial challenge, noting that writing down his frustrations released emotional steam. Speaker B affirms the transformative impact of putting feelings onto the page, acknowledging that while it can feel difficult to start, the act of journaling can lead to a powerful 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.