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Titel: The Journalling Techniques that Changed My Life Autor: struthless Quelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dArgOrm98Bk Keywords: self, psychology Erschienen: 2022-08-03 Gesehen am: 2022-08-10

  • Dump ‘em. Dump your thoughts.
    • Sit down and write everything down at once.
    • Or keep a journalling thing with you all day to record everything.
    • Do it a few times a week. Like 3.
  • Prompts to break your mindset
    • Imagine 6 impossible things (Lewis Carroll)
    • How can I make someone else happy right now? (5-10 points)
    • What’s something in my immediate environment that I have never noticed?
  • Daily reflections
    • Specific set of questions
    • Examples: What excited me? What drained me? What did I learn? What are 10 things I’m grateful for? How did I push the needle forward?
    • (Write these to learn about yourself… not because you want to have a strict log of everything you did. Try to think of what you need vs what other people do.)
  • Habits & Life Style Improvements
    • Three columns: Actions, Worst version of myself, Best version of myself
      • Actions | Lazy self-indulgent alcoholic slob | Funny & fun sober dude with limitless creativity
    • List everything you did… Give yourself a score.
  • When bad things happen
    • What happened objectively?
    • What did I make it mean?
    • How would I comfort a friend I loved if this happened to them?
    • How is this the best thing that has ever happened to me?
    • IDENTIFY COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS → SHOW COMPASSION FOR YOURSELF → REFRAME THE SITUATION
  • Anxieties
    • Divide page into: Fears - Fixes - Outcome you would bet on
    • Why are you anxious? What are you fearing?
      • Example: I am anxious to post something online because I’m worried no one is gonna look at it.
    • What strategies can you implement to overcome them, at least partially?
      • Fix: Post it everywhere.
    • What outcome is most likely to happen?
      • Likely: A few people will look at my first post because no one knows me.
    • Stops catastrophising!
  • Tasks, To Dos, Direction
    • Brain Dump again with bullet points, get everything scatted onto one page
    • Now order them!
      • What is non-negotiable? What absolutely has to be done?
      • What is exciting?
      • What on my list, if done, would make everything else easier?
      • What of these, if the opportunity was taken away from me, would I fight to get back?
      • What 20% of activities are producing 80% of the results?
  • Decision Making
    • What is the decision/problem?
      • A PROBLEM WELL DEFINED IS A PROBLEM HALF SOLVED.
    • What are the options? Are they mutually exclusive?
    • If I had to make this decision in 60 seconds, what would I choose? (Put on a timer.)
    • Could I live with this outcome?
    • What would this look like if it were easy?
      • I don’t get this one.
  • Direction in Life
    • Think of your life as data points.
    • If you put one dot on the graph, you don’t know where the last one was or where the next one will fall. Is it gonna be better? Different? Worse?
    • If you ask yourself often enough What do you want?, you increase insight.