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122. It's Writing Season · Your Enriched Self

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  I don't know about most, but I can say that I cherish my elementary
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  school years. It was an opportunity, of course, to make some of
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  your first friends, but for me, it was also an opportunity to engage
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  with some great individuals. And I have to say I had some great elementary
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  teachers. I remember specifically my first grade teacher, Miss Jasper, and I
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  believe I've talked about her on this podcast before. But of course we know
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  first grade is like a key foundational year, like you're learning the foundations of
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  reading, matt science, all the things right handwriting. This first grade teacher,
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  missy Asper, she was also a big builder of classroom community. She
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  set us up for success every single day, and she was queen of managing
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  the daily morning routine. We came into that classroom. First of all,
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  it was kept immaculate every single day, and I kid you not, every
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  single day. We opened our notebooks and we started writing things down, and
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  we started our day writing things down. And in her efforts to build this
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  classroom community, it was essential that we wrote everything down. We started with
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  our name. We went and wrote the date that includes the month, the
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  year, the day of the week, all of the things and then she
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  set us out for the agenda. That agenda would include what we were learning
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  today, what chapter we would be in in each of our subjects. And
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  oh, by the way, we already knew what our homework assignment was because
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  she had already listed it on the board at the start of the day.
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  She was meticulous, she was insightful, and she said classroom procedures up to
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  a te we were set up for success right after the bell run. No
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  excuses. You wrote it down every single day. And I believe along the
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  way, with technology and everything else that has been introduced into our day to
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  day routine, we lost the art of writing things down. My friends from
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  all across the globe and welcome today. You're in Real Self Podcast. I
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  am your host, my Lene Noir. I am a mindset coach and your
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  mindset advocate. And all that means is in the world today, in your
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  world, where you serve, where you live, where you play, there
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  is a lot going on. There's a lot vying for your attention, there's
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  a lot of contenders for your time. And so what I've done here on
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  this podcast platform is I've created a space. I've curated a space so that
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  each and every week you can be intentional about doing what you must to become
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  more of your enrich self. And I know if you're listening to this podcast,
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  you know that you don't make time for this, not because you don't
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  want to, but because you have so much on your plate. And that's
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  what this weekly conversation is all about, is for you to be attuned to
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  what's important to you, attuned to your goals, attuned to the direction that
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  you're heading. But it all starts in your mind. Every single thing that
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  you want to accomplish. Yes, there's still time this year to get some
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  things done, but every single thing that you want to accomplish, every single
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  thing that you can live out in your life, starts in your mind.
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  And so I want you to be more enriched. But it's going to start
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  with being intentional about your thoughts because we know your thoughts inspire your words,
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  and those words translate to the action and the activity that you take each and
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  every day. And I want to make sure that those activities and those things
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  that you do help you show up as the best version of yourself to this
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  world. And so that's what this podcast is all about. So if you
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  are new, I want to welcome you and if you are a repeat listener,
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  we are on episode one twenty two. Just like that, I got
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  my doctor seuss On. I just want to thank you from the bottom of
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  my heart. Grateful for each and every one of you, and I want
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  to encourage you to share this podcast with a friend or family. I know
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  there's someone in your circle, someone around you that can benefit from all that
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  we offer here on the Your enrich Self Podcast. Now, before we get
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  into this week's episode, and it will be good, I promise, if
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  you know. You know. But one of the things that I do with
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  intention is I make a deposit in the bank of you. I do that
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  by way of affirmations. Affirmations are a great way to start your day and
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  to command your morning. This week's affirmation is today is a gift, and
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  I'm blessed to be here. Today is a gift, and I am blessed
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  to be here. Today is a gift, and I'm blessed to be here.
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  Now, let's get ready for this week's episode of the Your Enriched Self
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  podcast. Has established the ground rules for today's episode. I've gone to business
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  meetings where we were told at the top of the meeting that it would be
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  a working lunch, and so this will be a working meeting because I need
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  you to be in this to win this right as we wrap up the end
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  of this year, when we think about writing it down, I know that
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  thought of writing things down, especially if you're not an avid note taker.
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  As I mentioned at the top of the podcast, I established this habit,
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  whether I liked it or not, very early on in my life, and
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  so it has been a habit for me to write things down from then to
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  now. So if you're not in the habit of writing things down, I'm
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  going to need you to catch up with the rest of us who've been doing
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  this for a number of years. But in all seriousness, it's very important
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  to write things down. Let me give you some incentives to writing things down.
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  First of all, how many of you know how many thoughts you have
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  in a given day. If you said sixty thousand, you're right. I
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  think it's actually a little bit more than that. But we have about sixty
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  thousand thoughts running through our mind each and every day. Do you ever wonder
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  why you feel overwhelmed or why you feel stressed? Think about how many thoughts
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  and a lot of those thoughts require decision points that you have to make all
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  throughout your day. Right, And it's not like your compartmentalizing those decisions to
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  a certain moment where you can sit down and go, Okay, let me
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  make decisions about this. You're doing these things simultaneously while working, answering the
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  phone, responding to an email, helping a friend, taking care of your
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  kids, cooking dinner. Like, you're constantly in motion with these thoughts.
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  And so no wonder you feel this pressed, stressed, overwhelming sensation throughout your
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  day or even at the end or beginning of your day, knowing that you
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  have to complete and review this cycle all over again. And so that right
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  there should be a good incentive for you to start writing things down. It
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  is writing season. Let me give you some more incentive. I want to
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  set the tone for what we're doing while we're doing this. Right. According
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  to goal setting statistics, if you write down your goals, when you write
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  things down, you are forty two percent likely to achieve them. So there's
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  a lot of incentive here to writing things down in this season of writing.
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  And if you know me, you know I'm going to take some biblical liberties
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  here. There is a scripture in the Bible that says write the vision and
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  make it plain. That's in Habakuk two and two, and that's the instruction.
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  The instruction is simply to write out your vision. Writing out your vision
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  is a time for you to obviously reflect on whatever it is that you want
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  to reflect upon, to do some internal examination of the things you've been thinking
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  about, the things you've been feeling about, and it's another opportunity for you
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  to be creative. So today I want you to get a pen and paper
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  ready, And like I said, I want you to if you're listening to
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  this on the road, I want you to do a replay. This is
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  an episode that you would want to replay and spend some time really doing the
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  work. We can't just talk about it. We have to do something with
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  it, and so we need to write it down. And today's episode is
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  all about writing it down. I think when we think about writing things down,
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  we get overwhelmed again because now we're thinking, going back to those sixty
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  thousand thoughts, what should I be writing about? And how do I get
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  started writing? I gave you some of the why, but I want to
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  give you some more reasons why you should be writing things down, and then
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  we'll get into what to write and how to write. Let's start with the
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  why we write, the reason why this is writing season. First of all,
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  this is coming close to the end of the year, and I think
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  it's time to do some reflection if you haven't already, not just reflection where
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  you're thinking about it, but where you're writing it down and do some introspection,
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  which is where you start doing that examination on the year, on the
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  work, on the body of work that you've produced, the things that you've
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  done, things you maybe have not been able to accomplish. But do some
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  internal reflection on that as well. Your why is going to help you to
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  get your thoughts and feelings out there. It's a great way to handle things
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  that have been difficult for you to think through them right. So now it's
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  time to write it down, get a deeper understanding of things that maybe you
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  weren't able to do because you were so much in the moment of thinking about
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  it that you didn't really capture all the essence of that thing. That's a
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  space, this writing space, and the why is to capture all of that.
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  Writing things down also gives you the opportunity to share what it is that
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  you're thinking and feeling with other people. Share your experiences, because how you
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  live and experience your world is going to be different from the other person,
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  So that could be another way to help you connect with people and connect with
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  the world around you. Writing things down also helps you to develop. We're
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  all about transformation and growth, and it happens in this space. As you
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  start writing, it helps you to improve what you're thinking about, improve how
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  you will communicate that first of all writing it down and then of course sharing
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  it with people, but also it helps you to learn about you, right,
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  because this is your opportunity to transform and grow, and you're going to
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  learn a lot about how you think about things, how you process things,
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  simply by writing it down. Let me just break it down. The whole
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  point of writing it down, going back to the biblical reference of Hapaka two
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  and two, which is to write the vision and make it plain. What
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  you're simply doing is you're getting clarity. You're getting clarity, and you're getting
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  direction. I've been in two small group conversations this week, separate groups of
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  women, and one of the things I keep hearing as an echoing sentiment is
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  direction. The need for direction, the pull for direction. People want to
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  have a path forward, and the only way they're going to have that path
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  forward, you're going to have to start with writing things down, writing things
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  down. How many of you have goals, have things that you need to
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  prioritize and want to be more intentional about what you're doing, how you're growing,
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  and where you're going. I believe that's all of us. And if
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  that's the case, that's your case for writing things down. Clarity, clarity,
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  and even more clarity. The next question may be, well, then,
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  Myleene, what do I write? What do I write? Well?
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  In this season of writing, there is no limits on what you can write,
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  what you should write. Obviously, you want to write about things that
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  interest you. It's important to write about your experiences, the events that added
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  meaning to your life. You can write about literally anything. There are many
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  ideas I'm going to encourage you to journal. Journaling is a way just to
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  get things out, process your feelings, process your thoughts, track where you
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  are. I've been able to go back to some of my old journals and
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  see how I process things in that season, in that lifetime, and it
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  really helps me to understand my growth. So journaling is great. I have
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  lots of journals from years back and current year, and it really helps me
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  to see again get some reflection on what's happening in my life. Here's something
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  I'm going to encourage you to do. If you've never done this before,
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  this is a pretty cool exercise on what to write. I'm gonna encourage you
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  to write a letter to the future you. I was introduced to this by
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  a coach of mine a couple years ago, and the idea is to write
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  a letter to the future version of you. There's actually a website that automates
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  all this for you. Now, you gotta do some work, because we
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  believe in getting work done here. So basically, you go to www dot
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  futureme dot org and you simply write a letter to your future self. You
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  pick the date in which you want to receive the letter back to yourself.
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  You can do it three months in the future first quar or you can do
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  it second quarter of twenty twenty four. You can wait till this time next
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  year and write yourself a letter and reflect on all the things that you've accomplished.
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  I don't know what you want to write about when you don't know what
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  to write. This is a really cool way to express yourself and follow up
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  in whatever time period you establish to honor that letter by reading it and reflecting
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  upon it. Here's another thing you can do, write a letter to someone
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  you love. Writing letters is kind of a lost art. I know that
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  we email people and we send people text messages, and even nowadays we just
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  send emojis. We don't even write things out so much, or we're using
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  text talk to express ourselves. A letter to someone you love is going to
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  go a long way as a great way to be thoughtful, to express yourself,
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  express your gratitude, express your feelings, whatever it is. This is
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  a great art that we've lost along the way, and I think it's a
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  great way to write something out. I'm also going to recommend something as simple
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  as thank you cards. That is a simple gesture to do. And there
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  is absolutely someone in your life who has done something for you kind, something
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  that you were so grateful for that you can express in a thank you card.
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  So that's what you can write now. Finally, how to write,
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  You need to establish a how to write that thing. I recommend a quiet
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  place, quiet place where you can write with no distractions. That's going to
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  help you just stay focused. I will also recommend while you're writing in that
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  quiet place, if you want to be task oriented about it, set a
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  timer. Set timer so you can commit to writing for you know, the
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  next twenty minutes, the next thirty minutes, whatever. That way that you
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  can give yourself time and maybe it's just ten minutes. I don't know what
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  it might be for you, but just spend some time writing these things down.
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  Whether you're writing that letter to the future you, whether you're doing a
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  journal entry, maybe you're writing a poem. Again, you can write so
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  many different things, but you need to have a plan to execute on that
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  writing. So setting a timer is a good strategy to do. So here's
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  something that especially when I have this writing project that I've been working on,
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  is writing whatever comes to mind. That is probably one of the hardest things
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  that I can do. So I would rewrite what I'm writing over and over
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  again as opposed to just writing it and then doing a big edit. And
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  so I'm going to encourage you not to do like I do and just write
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  what comes to your mind. Don't judge yourself. But again, this writing,
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  most of this is just between you and you. You're not sharing this
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  with anyone unless you decide you want to do a thank you card or write
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  a letter expressing your love to someone. Also, free writing, brainstorming,
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  that type of writing, just throwing your ideas on paper is a great way
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  to on how to write things. Something else that I've done in the past
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  is if I have a topic that I want to write about, I'll put
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  that topic in the center of a page. And it's more of like a
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  diagram more than it's a so to speak, writing. But in that diagram,
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  I create a tree. You can imagine like a family tree, but
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  I'm building a tree around this idea that is my central point. And then
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  I have sub ideas and then ideas under those sub ideas. So that's another
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  way to do this. There's no wrong way to do this. On how
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  to do this, I want you to get into the habit of writing.
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  I think sometimes we make it such a big task, so much so that
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  we don't even do it. Let me just say that we don't do it.
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  And even for someone like me who enjoys writing, I take notes sometimes
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  I overwhelm myself because I overthink. I start to overthink. Well, I
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  don't know if I want to write that. Just write, just have fun
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  doing it. Experiment with different forms of writing. If you've never written a
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  poem before, you haven't done it since grade school, try writing a poem
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  again. There are many ways on how you can do this. There are
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  no wrong ways to do this. But this is writing season. I want
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  you to be exploratory with this. I want you to have fun with this.
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  I want you to allow yourself to be creative without judgment, right,
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  just have fun. The more you write, the more comfortable you become in
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  this space. And it won't seem so much as a task because there's a
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  lot of things that we need to write down. I'll be honest with you.
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  I had some financial goals for myself in this year, and at the
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  beginning of the year, I started writing those goals down and I lost track
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  of where I wanted to be because I hadn't been keeping up with the writing.
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  And so I want you to get into the season of writing so that
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  you can keep your eyes on the price. Essentially, what I don't want
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  you to do is to become passive and laid back about what's happening in your
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  life, because now you're just watching what's going on in the world. You're
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  hearing all these things on the news or wherever you get your media, and
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  you don't write it down. And when you don't write it down, you
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  lose your position. And that's where I felt recently when I started looking back
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  on some of the goals that I had, specifically in a financial space,
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  recognizing that the position I wanted to be in, I lost that positioning because
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  I wasn't engaged as an active doer. And I want you to be an
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  active doer in this season. Not to mention when we go back to the
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  biblical reference, write the vision and make it plain. When you do that,
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  you are taking the instruction of writing division, making it plain and turning
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  it into action. And what that does it puts you in position to receive
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