Welcome to the Focus and Chill Podcast, episode 58! Today we'll share Journaling Tips: Traditional vs Digital Journaling, Gratitude Practices, Mind Mapping & more!
TOPICS
Journaling strategies
Traditional vs digital
Benefits of Digital
Security
Organization
Searchability
Benefits of Traditional
Feels nice
Freeform
Can throw bits of paper away
Smart journaling apps
Not really journaling, more like e-therapist
Concerns around having intimate thoughts sent to the cloud (even if they don’t store your journals in the cloud)
Advancements in local GPTs running on your smartphone
Gratitude practices
Writing a single line vs a story
Getting into the feeling of it makes a difference according to Huberman
Prompts vs no prompts
Different prompts for different times of day/emotional states
Morning - Jeremy prefers tactical: what are the challenges of the day likely to be? How can I make today fun
During the day: emotional processing - why is this person annoying me so much?
Muttering can help?
Evening/scheduled weekly/monthly/seasonal reflection: strategic/divergent thinking - what did I learn? How am I living up to my values?
Writing a day log vs a simple story of the day
Lifelog helpful for historical reflection - what was life like in 2021?
Weekly/monthly reflection
Reflect on insights from last week
What have I learned?
How did I go with last week’s experiments?
How am I Iiving up to my values?
What concerns do I have?
lite tasks (can get done in less than 2 minutes)
tasks to add to the to-do list
Non-actionable but useful reference info to integrate into the second brain.
Experiments to try for the week ahead
Mind mapping
Implementing journaling in mindmaps (Freeplane); possible future episodes.
Episode 57