I have a secret.

 

I was giving a talk at this conference a few years ago.

 

Someone asked me: ‘How have you managed to go from being a broke theatre director to travelling the world?’ 

 

I journaled - was my answer.

 

Someone then asked me: ‘How did you build your first business?’

 

I journaled - I answered again.

 

Then someone asked me: ‘How did you end up training as a samurai?’

 

I journaled - I answered yet again.

 

‘How do you know what stories to tell or products to launch?’

 

Same here - I journal. ✍️

 

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Looking back, anything that I took up in my life couldn’t have been accomplished without journaling.

 

I track it.

 

I write about it.

 

I map out my thinking process around a certain question and then I decide how to improve it. 

 

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Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist, who has worked with hundreds of best performing athletes.

 

What was the one thing that he got them all to do in order to improve their performance?

 

You guessed it - he got them to journal.

 
🎀 Here is what Jim said in his interview with the entrepreneur and blogger Tim Ferris:

 

‘...Every athlete was required to keep a detailed training journal on a daily basis.

 

An important insight gained over several years was that anything that was quantified and tracked on a regular basis would invariably show improvement (sleep times, liquid intake, stretching frequency, nutritional habits, etc.).

 

Quantifying behaviour raises awareness and, as a consequence, habit acquisition times are typically accelerated.'


🧠 He then applied it to emotional and mental training:

 

‘Using daily journal entries to quantify the frequency of positive versus negative thinking, giving 100 percent effort in practice, engagement levels, the tone and content of one’s private voice, anger management, etc., produced similarly exciting results.

 

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I always journaled. It's only in the past 5 years though, since starting to teach journaling as a tool, have I looked into research.

 

By now, all my methods, techniques and exercises are systemised into one on-going programme - the Growth Journal Membership. 

πŸ‘‰ https://www.dariuslukas.academy/growth-journal

 

It’s nothing to do with coaching.

 

It’s the platform, where I create monthly journal Frameworks and you write through them.

 

It’s a way for you to map out what you are, think and feel.

 

It’s there for you to revisit your past and draw up a trajectory for your future. πŸ“

 

I’m there just to give you prompts and frameworks.


You work with your own story - for your own customised outcome.

 

So, how about taking up journaling?

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