Personal Development with Gray Miller
This is somewhat different than the usual post. On the surface, it’s basically extolling the power of journaling to make life a little better. But the “too long, didn’t read” version would be this: Teenagers especially can benefit from journaling. The creators of the NOSO Notebook (Not On SOcial media, get it?) have not only …
It’s been a few weeks of working with the SELF Journal, and there have been some surprising results, so I thought I’d do a quick updated review. The Good The journal’s design is wonderful. It’s a real pleasure to hold, the cloth cover maintains integrity in spite of taking it on several trips, and the …
I am one of the happy backers of the “Self Journal” – a tool that seemed to want to be the Everlasting Gobstopper of journals. At first their mission – “to create something that lends itself to making success inevitable – through planning, execution and measurement” – seems pretty in line with my own efforts at …
Remember the Five-Minute Journal? I love the thing; I extolled its virtues, I recommended you buy the fancy one if you like that kind of thing, I even formatted one for my daughter to try and help her get more centered as she prepares for her boards. However, if you look in my colorful little …
My Middle Daughter (who is celebrating her quarter-century mark today) has been working on establishing a “5-Minute Journal” habit for herself. Like any good Personal-Development-Blogger-Dad I saw this as both an opportunity to bloviate to her and come up with a useful practice post. The Problem “I really like the journal,” she said – I’d …
There’s a conflict that rages every morning the moment I first drift into waking consciousness. It first manifests by my social media (aka the Gravy Hose) craving, when I wonder What have I missed in the last seven hours? My hand reaches almost automatically towards the bedside table – where my phone isn’t. No, my …
I mentioned in the last post that I was trying out the “5 Minute Journal” technique for five days (which is kind of their “challenge” for skeptics). I am definitely one of those skeptics, due to the overwhelming amount of optimism that falls into their formula. I will outline it briefly here: Every morning, first …
Instant Dilemma; Just Add Text Every once in a while you get faced with an issue that seems completely unsolvable, until something changes to make it eminently solvable. Here’s how the timeline went: 4:50 am: Wake up to take partner to her work at the coffee shop; I plan to write and do other work …
Whatever you do, don’t look behind you! There’s a very scary shelf among my books. It contains words that make me cringe, shudder, draw back in horror – and that’s not from reading them, it’s from the mere idea of reading them. They are my journals. While they’re not all quite in order, they do stretch back …