The Amazing Benefits of Journaling - Expert Hangout Podcast

<p>The amazing benefits of journaling. I've been encoruaged to journal for many years but haven't. I've started numerous times but I found it hard to stick with it. Like any habit you need a compelling reason to motivate you and I never really had one. This was the motivation for this Team Super Dad "Expert Hangout". To find out what journaling really is, how to do and how to make it stick long term.</p><br><p>Joining me were Moyra Mackie, Dale Darley and surprise guest Andrew Priestley.</p><br><p><strong>Please subscribe to this podcast and share with friends.</strong></p><p><strong>Leaving a review (</strong><a href="about:blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>iTunes</strong></a><strong>) is also an amazing way to support Team Super Dad and provide me with feedback. </strong></p><br><p>Dale and Moyra are both writers and journaling coaches who support people and businesses in the power of journaling.</p><br><p>Andrew is an amazing business coach who I know from the Key Person of Influence alumni. When I heard he had journaled since 1976 I just had to get him involved. Amazing!</p><br><p>I'm not really sure I understood what I was trying to get out of journaling nor how it was going to benefit me. This was why I never made it stick as a daily habit. What value is there in scribbling down what we did each day? It can seem rather pointless or at least less important than all the other things I have got to do in my Dad Life.</p><br><p>That is where I was wrong.</p><br><p>Journaling is a positive workout for your mind and heart. As I have come to learn it is not about simply keeping a track of what you did that day. It is far more than that. Your journal is a log of your thoughts, experiences and ideas. It can be words, pictures, drawings. It is whatever you feel compelled to get down for that day. It is a flowing physical and mental process that works your mind as a muscle.</p><br><p>This is where the power lies.</p><br><p>In our busy lives we do not commonly take enough time to wind down, relax