In this episode I speak about the power of journalling, the way seeing and writing your thoughts on paper can significantly change your life. Both in business and personally.
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In this episode I speak about the power of journalling, the way seeing and writing your thoughts on paper can significantly change your life. Both in business and personally.
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Later on you go oh, I had the best idea. Then it's forgot and it's actually gone and you can't remember it when it comes back right. So frustrating. My name is Corey Batwell.
Speaker 1:I'm the founder of the men's personal growth community called Set the Standard, and I'm going to teach you in this video the best way, after working with over 200 men, how to journal. So I've created a whole bunch of journals. I've done so much journaling. I write notes consistently. You can read.
Speaker 1:I did a video on how to take notes with reading, which I think is really powerful, especially if you want to memorize everything that you're reading and actually turn it into embodied information. You can see that around here somewhere. What I found is really powerful with journaling is there's two things One is accountability and two is opening your mind. So you can ask yourself the question it's like why do I even want to journal and why is it powerful for men? Well, in my experience, literally I've worked close to 300 men and some of Australia's best entrepreneurs and work with people from in London and America as well, and what I've learned from working with these people is is that it's quite difficult to talk about the things that are bothering you and understanding what they are with other people, unless you're doing some sort of coaching, and even in that coaching, to even bring those things up and talk about them first things first. First you got to build trust, which takes time, and I believe that it's the most powerful and the best way to have personal growth is to have conversations with people who challenge you, understanding your mind, getting into your psyche, helping you reprogram your mind through mindset, and that's like stuff that we do is set the standard. However, not everyone wants to do that and it's not attractive to everyone. So, and I and every everyone that we work with anyway, we go through journal prompts and exercises and worksheets and modules and lessons and teaching and and analyzing, and quite commonly now some really top, uh, ceos and entrepreneurs, like simon beard, who is the founder of culture kings. He recommends that when he reads a book, he goes through and he does a multiple choice question in chat gpt. He asked chat gpt hey, I've just read this book, can you please test me and quiz me on it? And then he goes through and he does a multiple choice question in chat GPT. He asked chat GPT hey, I've just read this book, can you please test me and quiz me on it, and then he goes through, does the quizzes and punches through everything to test his understanding on the book, which I find is absolutely genius.
Speaker 1:So, when it comes to journaling, the question that we are wanting to ask ourselves is what is our intention for journaling? Is it opening our mind? Is it to keep us accountable? And then what do I need accountability on? And how would I like to open my mind and you open your mind and like by writing things down and making diagrams or jotting certain words down and, through the history of time, when we're back in cave days and mapping things out in caves.
Speaker 1:Humans, extremely visual beings, so the purpose of writing something down or drawing something out helps us be able to see it. I don't know if you're an entrepreneur or if you're, like, into health and fitness or whatever it is, but when you write down a plan and you get down your thoughts and you draw them out on paper or you make them digitally first, it makes it so much easier to understand the concepts and gain context on what you should most be focusing on and priorities and help you see blind spots and gaps that you may not necessarily see beforehand and anytime, I don't know about you guys, but I see a mind map or see a beautiful diagram, immediately I go, wow, that makes so much sense. So we have all of these thoughts and concepts in our mind, but our minds work so far up fast and we have so many thoughts and and feelings that happen in our brains all the time that that, the second, that we've thought about one thing and we think about the next thing we've already forgot about that thing. Have you ever had an idea or thought about something in the middle of the night, in the morning, during the day, and you're like, oh, I really want to write that down. And then you know Later on you go, oh, I had the best idea. Then it's forgot and it's actually gone and you can't remember it when it comes back. Right, so frustrating.
Speaker 1:So for the act of journaling daily and going through and asking the questions and getting out all of those thoughts into your brain onto paper is the best way to transform yourself. Open your mind, get clear on your perceptions, make sure that you're healing any dark parts of yourself and understanding what that's like. You can go real deep in regards to journaling like that. So you're going to learn so much more about you as a person and leadership. By the way, guys, if you want to be an entrepreneur or a leader or something like that, you want to be more impactful or role model for people around you. Leadership is a direct reflection of self-awareness. Studies shown it's all out there. If you're going to be a good leader, what that equals is you learning about yourself. So you're going to learn so much about yourself, plus keeping yourself accountable, and that's essentially the benefits.
Speaker 1:The more you learn about yourself, the better. The more emotionally intelligent you come, the better your mindset is. The less reactive you are, the less you're doing things like scrolling on your phone, falling into vices porn, drugs, alcohol, tv b alcohol, tv binging, sleeping in, going to bed late, like all those things that prevent us from getting to the next level. You're more likely to adhere to what you want to do, say what you want to do, be more integral, not feeling lost and like you're just kind of fluffing around and instead implementing things in your life that are truly important, because you've gotten all the shit out of your brain and got it onto paper and you can clear it, get rid of it and focus on what's really important. It's time to get locked in.
Speaker 1:It's time to get focused and what I found through journaling is one of these, is one of the best techniques that I found and that is to, in the morning, run through a deep and powerful question. And some of the questions that are like is like why are you worthy? If you were to say I hate you to someone, who would it be? And why? So? Having all these real powerful questions like what is your one-page business plan? Writing that down, re-going over it, what is your five-year goal? What is your 10-year goal? And very simple questions, generic questions. But when you're going through and asking the healing questions as well and you're putting for them from mind to paper, you get a lot clearer on what they are.
Speaker 1:I remember I went through and I did Jordan Peterson self-authoring program. I've done the whole thing. It took me like six months to finish and I take some of the wisdom from that into my journaling. I also completed university and done degrees in business and business management, where it requires a lot of reflective writing, and one thing that people don't understand the power of in reflective writing is this getting things out, which is what journal prompts actually do. In my experience, what I felt was what I think is my plan is, and consistently writing that down over a long period of time is what helps people become so much more intelligent and make better decisions.
Speaker 1:So it's to ask a powerful, deep reflection question in the morning while your brain's primed. You've just had some ideas and you've got to get it down and it's getting creative with your writing, with a creative question, and then the next prompts is actually going through and rating your day. You can rate the day beforehand when you journal, or you can rate your day at the end of the day and essentially you just want to give your day a rating out of five stars. You want to say what you're grateful for, because there's literally science that shows if you express gratitude once a day, it makes you you 20% happier. 20% happier is more productive, like way more productive. There's studies that show that it's absolutely nuts. I just wrote an email on it like a couple of weeks ago, and send it out to my email list of everyone. I'm just like look at all these studies and facts that come with happiness and productivity as well. So it's there and it happens and it's real. Some of the things that are really important to have when you're checking this is rating your day out of like five stars. Being grateful, because gratitude makes you 20% happier and expressing gratitude once a day makes you 20% more happy. The more happy you are, the more productive you are. I literally sent an email out last week on the statistics for like happiness and productivity and it's absolutely wild.
Speaker 1:Blows your brain what your intention is for the next day. What are the things that you felt the most resistance during the day? What blows your brain what your intention is for the next day? What are the things that you felt the most resistance during the day? What emotion that you felt? Which creates more emotional intelligence? You're better emotionally regulated throughout the day and you can flip back if you're feeling anger all the time, say, hey, I'm gonna do some stuff to sort out my anger, let's go. And then also, what inspiring ideas did you have during the day?
Speaker 1:Because we have all these thoughts, as I mentioned beforehand, and we want to capture them down and sometimes during the, we can still think about them and remember them in the moment and then like tomorrow that they forgot. If you can capture those things down in a journal prompt, you're going to absolutely crush it. We'll leave in the comments below just some of those prompts if you would like to try them yourself. But we also, after working with 300 people, put it into a journal ourselves that you can buy with the link below. And then what we've done is we've scheduled it so you have each page is one day and it has 75 days in here, so you can link it with a 75 day hard challenge. You've got your reflective question and then your check-ins throughout the day, so you can get this and start journaling straight away for 75 days in a row.
Speaker 1:But what's really powerful with our questions that we have on here, for all these questions that we ask on this size, is because we run a men's personal growth, community development and platform. What we've done I've been working in personal growth for like six years right, six years, which has been absolutely crazy, like professionally working with people, one-on-one coaching, clients and community clients and for all the education that we've learned that there is a select amount of questions that we know, if someone answers us, going to completely change and transform their mindset. So we put all of those into the modern alpha journal here, which is designed for men to, you know, run through and kick up. So obviously, yes, you can get the prompts in here, like the daily check-in prompts. But if you want to have the questions and you want to write in like a book, which is absolutely beautiful, like it's real hard and has a nice touch to it and it's like black matte, like I love that with the writing on the side Super cool, yeah, for 75 days in a row writing this down this is definitely the book in the journal prompt to get if you can't be bothered. But if you want to do it yourself and feel free to create it yourself, we'll leave a list of questions not all of the questions in there, uh, because that's just like 75 questions. It's too much text but we'll leave a bunch of questions in there for you and the prompts you can go through.
Speaker 1:If you want to create it yourself, however, grab yourself one of those, grab yourself one of these journals if you want to start prompting and become absolutely proficient and exceptional at journaling. So that's it, guys. That's what I have found to be one of the best journal techniques that anyone can use to master themselves and actually create a transformation in a short period of time, rather than just coming in. How did I feel today? It's got the actions, it's got the prompts, it's got the questions which, when you write on, as I mentioned, it takes all the stuff out of your brain, put it on paper and you start figuring things out, and we had people like go through these things and literally change direction in their life because they've been like, wow, I, I'm not doing something that I'm truly integral and think I should be doing and this is the direction I want to go in. So I hope you guys get as much out of that journal as I get out of the journal, as the people in our community get out of the journal.
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