How Do You Use Journaling?

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Journaling is very important to you. I want you to discuss that as a topic. And there are a million and one ways to journals. How do you implement this? Ye ye. Ah, so just for contexts, i have been journaling consistently since i was about 13 years old, daily. And i'm 55. So hell of a lot of journals. To be consistent, and i think you do the same thing. I hand write ido, no and a. What may be unusual is i never go back and re read, because it's not about figuring shit out. It's about the experience. My general prompt, the thing i almost always start with, is,

"You are not alone. And just because you feel like shit doesn't mean you are shit." — Jerry Colonna

Jerry Colonna (@jerrycolonna) is the CEO and cofounder of Reboot.io, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to the notion that better humans make better leaders.

Prior to his career as a coach, he was a partner with J.P. Morgan Partners (JPMP), the private equity arm of J.P. Morgan Chase. Prior to that, he cofounded New York City-based Flatiron Partners with Fred Wilson, which became one of the nation's most successful early-stage investment programs. His first leadership position, at age 25, was Editor-In-Chief of InformationWeek magazine, and now he has returned to the written word with his first book, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up.

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