Journaling isn't about recording wins. It's about getting anger, disappointment, and depression out of your head and onto paper. A friend named Joe Spano taught the speaker that once thoughts are written down, the emotional weight lifts. People resist it most when they need it most.
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.
