After completing Steve Harvey's 300 wants exercise, the speaker found that entries shift from concrete goals to abstract feelings around entry 30-40. Writing desires acts as visualization, mapping the steps to achieve them. The exercise creates such intense excitement about the future that sleep becomes hard, which is why the speaker doesn't recommend it to everyone.
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I did the Steve Harvey exercise where you journal 300 things that you want, and these are my 3 takeaways. One is you'll notice there's a big shift after you get to thing number 30 or 40, because up until that point you'll have written about, you know, like, I want to hang out with these people, I want to do these things. But by 250, by 270, you're kind of on a very subliminal path. You're writing less about things and more about emotions you want to have, specific feelings you want to have in a moment in time. 2 is that everything you write is a prime opportunity to practice self-hypnosis, to practice that line of sight, because you can write this thing and as you're visualizing it, you can think to yourself, okay, what are the steps I need to take in life to make my way towards that thing? The 3rd takeaway is actually a huge warning for anyone who wants to do this. You will get such a zest for life that you will start to hate sleep. Like last night I was rolling around in bed because I was too excited about all the goals I had that I wanted for the next year. So do I recommend it? Yes, but only if you're ready to embrace that life of loving life so much that you're willing to sacrifice sleep for it.