Journaling

Last updated Oct 23, 2024

Another one that goes hand in hand with Stoic is  Journaling. It grounds me similarly to meditating. I always heard on the Tim Ferriss Podcast that “successful” people meditate and journal a lot. I never understood the term journaling until I started it myself.

What helped me get started was the instructions by Derek with the idea of Thoughts On Journal files. By doing all journaling digitally in Plaintext Files and creating a separate one. Therefore I can read at a glance what I journaled, pondered, and thought off last time, reflect on it, and go deeper. Sometimes the previous journal entry is from years back, and of course, I do not remember, but giving me tons of insights as these are my thoughts. It’s a little like time-traveling back and talking to myself back then.

Besides the thought of journaling, I also do  dailies whenever I have time. In these, I usually dump whatever is stuck in my head right now offload it to my journal, and then ask questions about it. Why do I feel like this, or what can I change to feel better, and so on?

Every two or three months, I reflect on all levels where I have a bunch of questions (I use the 🔃 Reflection Template by Zowie from Systematic Mastery) about all kinds of things which takes me about 30 minutes and more.

Another way is to start with  11 curated questions Tim Ferriss asked everyone in the book Tribe of Mentors (Tim Ferriss) and see what you come up with.

See Digital vs Paper

Writing within the App vs. a Note app

From Nicolas Cole on Tweet :

1. “What did I do yesterday?”
2. “What am I working on?”
3. “What’s coming up?”
4. “What am I grateful for?”

Check more on 📓 Daily Template and Gratitude Journal.

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References: How I write Daily Notes differently
Created 2022-08-27