"We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience." -John Dewey Ryan Holiday

A Stanford University study found the critical relationship between writing and speaking. Writing reflects clear thinking, and in turn, clear communication. So write ya'll! buff.ly/2KM8c8v

Bring your problems to your journal for paper has more patience than people

We all write for different reasons: For The Tim Ferriss Show: "I’m just caging my monkey mind on paper so I can get on with my fucking day.”

Journal For Your Future Self. Do it for them.

How you journal is less important than why you are doing it: To get something off your chest. Have quiet time with your thoughts. Separate the harmful from the insightful. To prepare for the day ahead and review the day that passed. There’s no right way or wrong way. just do it.

There are no rules in journal writing. The pages are for your eyes only. Be your weirdest self. Be your most curious self. Be your most prolific horrible idea-having self. Dump out everything and anything that comes to mind. There’s no one way to journal. Just do it

“Keeping a journal is the veriest pastime in the world, and the pleasantest.Only those rare natures that are made up of pluck, endurance, devotion to duty for duty’s sake, and invincible determination, may hope to venture upon so tremendous an enterprise as keeping a journal.” MT

“People look for retreats for themselves in the country, by the coast, or in the hills,” Marcus Aurelius journaled. “There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind…

Starting the year off right

The ultimate holy grail of the practice buff.ly/2SkOi4f

If you want to represent it digitally, come on over to us at Emote after you're out of the cold and have some time to reflect on it! :-)

Journal About Your Journey by Adrian S. Potter link.medium.com/vfuHgdOoRcb

"The best mental health services might not look like mental health services." hanel baveja - that's right!

Life is about meaning. If work is it, then great. Otherwise, you need to seek it out in some form or fashion! hbr.org/2019/07/why-yo…

It's January 17th, 17 days into that new year. How's your new years resolutions hanging in there?!?

journal and you won't feel alone. Simple

Build strength and flexibility In your mind → Meditation + Journaling In your body → Weight Training + Yoga In your relationships → Honesty + Forgiveness

do 3 of these and you've won