The power of journaling in business

Today’s episode of the podcast is all about what journaling is, how to do it, and what it can do for you and your business. In this episode I take you through an overview of one of the Mindset Live sessions that I have recently delivered in my membership and give you practical things to go away and try yourself! As always, I’d love to know if any of this resonated with you and whether you journal or might now give it a go. Please feel free to connect with me on my socials and let me know.   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST The benefits of journaling How journaling improves writing and communication skills How journaling helps you to process things How to get started with journaling THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE There is no right or wrong way to journal, so let go of judgement and how it should be done and make it what’s right for you.   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE The science behind the woo Join the Dream Business Club Teresa Heath-Wareing Instagram Teresa Heath-Wareing LinkedIn Teresa Heath-Wareing Facebook Teresa Heath-Wareing Twitter   Transcript Hello and a really warm welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How are you doing? So this week we're gonna be talking mindset again, and I decided that I wanted to share something that I did in the Club. So every single month in the Club, we do a mindset call and the aim of the mindset call is to teach the members some new mindset skills or to go through an activity with them that helps them get unstuck, helps 'em move forward, helps 'em understand them better, their business better, how they work better. And for me, things really changed in my business when I got the mindset, like I was gonna say, like under control or sorted, but it's never, ever sorted it. Managing a mindset and working on a mindset is a constant, constant thing. It just means that I know what tools I have so that I can pick on a right tool when I need it, and also that I move through things quicker. So rather than being stuck for a long time or being fearful of a long time, or I'm able to move through it a lot quicker and move past it a lot quicker than I used to be able to because I have all these tools that are at my disposal. So, One of the things we do like stuff is I do this every single month, so if you are not finding a place to work on mindset. And actually this is something that is really unique to our Club and to my community. Lots of other places I've been don't offer this. So if you don't have a safe space to learn and, and actually this is the sort of stuff that I do with my coach, so. We do it on a one-to-one basis, and what I'm doing within the Club is I'm allowing that to be available for a price that you wouldn't get a one-to-one coach for. So do go check out the club if you think you might find that useful. So today I'm gonna take you through one of the sessions, not completely through the session obviously, but I'm gonna give you an overview to one of the sessions that I did in the Club. And this is all about journaling. Now, I don't know if you've ever journaled, I dunno if you've ever thought about it, looked at it, or whether you are a proficient journaler. But it has been quite impactful and changing for me. I don't, I didn't wanna put the word life changing before that, but it, it has had a huge impact on me and how I manage things. And therefore, I did an exercise so that my members could understand what journaling was, how to do it, how to go about it, what it can do for them, because it is an amazing and amazing tool. But I have to say, when I first started journaling, when someone said to me, oh, you should journal that, I was just like, what are you on about? And it took ages. Really, really did. It took at least I would say a year before I really understood what they meant and then started to see the benefit of doing it. So if you are sat there thinking, yeah, try that didn't work for me. Give it another go and just bear with you yourself. It's a bit like meditating. People go, can't meditate. Everybody can, to a degree. They've just gotta find their thing and their way of doing it and how it works for them. So, so one of the things we started off talking about is why you even need to journal or why it's a benefit. And I gave them a few of the stats that I shared in my episode about the science behind the woo. So we'll link up to that if you haven't listened to that episode, it's a really good one, especially if you're a bit skeptical about this stuff. Because I do like to back it up with some evidence because I am really passionate about it and I get really frustrated when people are like, oh, it's just such a load of rubbish. It isn't. It's actually very smart and it has some real good science behind it. And whether it did or not, like if that's what you choose to believe, I choose to believe if that makes my life better than Amen to that. Some of the stats or some of the facts that I find. So there's, there's lots of benefits to journaling. So let me run through some of the benefits. Journaling can help you achieve your goals. So when you use your journal to write down your specific goals, and you can better keep track of them, it'll help you stay accountable and also remind you what you need to do for your goals. And there's something about, and there's proven, and I should really research this stuff before I get on here and talk, but the chances of a goal coming true once it's written down is a higher percentage than if you just say it. Like I said, it really helps track progress and growth. And one of the things that I have been really, that actually has really impacted me is being able to go back and read my journals from some time ago and someone had a question about keeping journals, so I will get to that. But I've been going through a bit of a personal journey, which I will talk about at some point. Not sure when, but I will talk about it. And actually, one thing that has been really good is I have been journaling about this, this part of my life for a long time, longer than I care to remember i.e. Frustrating. Well, I'm not frustrated that it's been going on longer than I care to remember, but anyway, so being able to look back at those journals and see that, oh my gosh, you know, I was having trouble with it then, or I was dealing like that then and now how I am is just so amazing. So being able to, and, and often as well, we, we forget, like, so you know, when you do something and you really annoyed at yourself that you did it. If you took time to kind of write that down, then that might be a slight step towards not doing it again, because it's that kind of realization of, okay, this is how I feel when I do that thing, or this is what happened when I did this thing, and so next time you have almost a reminder. So the tracking and progress thing is really, really helpful. It can gain self-confidence. So again, seeing how things have moved forward. It makes you feel more positive. It makes you feel happier that you've been journaling different things and talking about different things, and those things have improved. Journaling actually helps you improve your writing and communication skills. So the writing skills are the fact that your writing and I tend to journal and they recommend that you journal with a pen and paper, that you don't journal with a computer or typing or that sort of thing. It's just something to do with the natural process of writing, but it can help improve your writing skills. Now for a long time, I've said I'm not a very good writer. And I'm not gonna say that anymore. You know, I'm not gonna say a brilliant writer, but it has actually really helped me. Maybe could help me speak, help me write better, because I'm writing every single day. And communication skills, it absolutely does help because I have been writing how I feel about things and when I'm proud of things, and when I'm frustrated about things or when things have not gone well or have gone really well. That communication has really, really helped because I'm learning how to express myself well by journaling. It also helps reduce stress and anxiety, and I'm gonna talk about that a bit in terms of some of the ways that I've journaled. But when you can journal something out, Then it can actually really help in terms of bring your stress levels down. And if you listen to last week's episode, we talked about fear and one of the things I talked, I mentioned to you was...