Dan Martell - May 09, 2023


My life changed when I added this one simple habit...


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Length

52 seconds

Words per minute

223.48917

Word count

196

Sentence count

14


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about how important it is to write things down. I think there's something fundamental about the human experience that we need to take the stuff out here, in our brains, in here, and put it down there to remind us that we are not our thoughts. And that when we write stuff to paper, we are actually co-creating our ideas into the universe by writing it down and looking at it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 My life fundamentally changed when one habit entered into my activities.
00:00:05.280 One habit.
00:00:05.980 17 years old.
00:00:06.840 You guys want to know what that habit was?
00:00:08.100 It was writing things down.
00:00:09.860 It might sound so trivial to you, but my whole life, I never wrote down a goal.
00:00:13.240 And when I got out of rehab, one of the exercises is called a transition plan.
00:00:17.020 And I wrote down the answers to their questions.
00:00:19.920 And I just took it for granted.
00:00:21.060 I was doing the thing that the place told me I should do.
00:00:23.500 And when I started writing stuff down, my life just got different.
00:00:26.860 I think there's actually something about the human experience that we need to take the stuff out here, in our brains, in here, and put it down there to remind us that we are not our thoughts.
00:00:36.040 And that when we write stuff to paper, we're actually co-creating our ideas into the universe by writing it down and looking at it.
00:00:44.880 Five-minute journal, journaling, whatever you want to call it.
00:00:47.500 That idea may sound so trivial to normal people out there, but I'm telling you, in this room, for me, fundamental.