Dear diary, today @RoamStack ‘s webinar on journaling convinced me to start my journaling practice.

Here are the highlights that helped convince me:

A gratitude practice can transform how you present to other people.

@tracyplaces was peer pressured into her gratitude practice but she stuck with it after being told by colleagues how her entire demeanor had changed.

“You’re not complaining first thing in the morning!”

@MdBrockwell seems like a fascinating person. He covered a lot of ground so here’s just a snippet.

He gets a lot of mileage from @MatthewDicks prompt (paraphrasing) “What made today different than any other day?”

The power of the prompt is in drawing attention to subtleties.

Gems from @MdBrockwell (paraphrased)

“The important things in life seem to happen around the corners and edges of other activities”

If you’re into Stoicism @rroudt has the Roam journaling practice for you.

Key takeaways: tagging each entry with energy and mood levels.

Formalizing Stoic practices into prompts that one answers and tracks over the course of several days, weeks, months.

If you’ve already got a journaling practice but want a SYSTEM to take it to the next level @brandontoner is your guy.

Brandon’s Atomic Journaling is an approach to structuring your practice that allows you to cycle in new prompts when necessary and . . .

Experiment with matching specific prompts to specific mind-states to eventually work towards understanding your own algorithms of thought!

It’s super cool and he’s got a full write-up here: https://brandontoner.substack.com/p/atomic-journaling

Concluding: there was A LOT MORE covered in the webinar. I believe @RoamStack has recorded and is going to be made available.

Thanks to the team for putting this together. Thanks to @Francis_miller for moderating.

Looking forward to the next one!