What happens when you journal EVERY DAY? How I entirely transformed myself through years of writing! — Transcript

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1. 0:00I have been journaling every day for 3
2. 0:03years, 1 month, and 4 days. And in
3. 0:06today's video, I'm going to show you
4. 0:08guys the results that I got from
5. 0:09journaling every day, and how you can
6. 0:11apply what I have learned to your own
7. 0:13life for your own personal
8. 0:15transformation journey. Hi guys, welcome
9. 0:18back or welcome to my channel. My name
10. 0:20is Leilani. I like to go over topics
11. 0:22such as selfdevelopment, transformation.
12. 0:25I speak a lot on spirituality. I also
13. 0:29speak on manifestation and subliminals.
14. 0:31And as you already know, today's topic
15. 0:33is going to be all about journaling and
16. 0:36the effects that it will have on you if
17. 0:38you commit to journaling daily. Without
18. 0:41wasting any more time, I'm going to go
19. 0:43straight into the topic of today. So,
20. 0:49I began journaling as a part of a
21. 0:52self-development journey. I initially
22. 0:54tried journaling when I was in my
23. 0:57sophomore slashjunior year of high
24. 1:00school, but I ultimately dropped out
25. 1:03because I was anxious that somebody
26. 1:06would open up and find my journal and
27. 1:09read it. I also didn't have the
28. 1:11discipline and the persistence to keep
29. 1:14journaling every single day. But I think
30. 1:16the majority of people are reluctant to
31. 1:19journal because they are afraid of
32. 1:21somebody reading their journal entries
33. 1:25when they are entering their true
34. 1:28feelings. Now I I completely understand
35. 1:31why you afraid and yes there is the
36. 1:34possibility that somebody is going to
37. 1:37read your journal but it is your
38. 1:38responsibility to keep that journal
39. 1:41hidden away where nobody is going to
40. 1:43find it. In the first two months of my
41. 1:47journaling journey, somebody actually
42. 1:50read a very, very private page of my
43. 1:53journal and blamed me for their
44. 1:56snitching on it, which was really
45. 1:58embarrassing because they read something
46. 2:00that I was trying to manifest and it
47. 2:02actually ended up breaking the
48. 2:03manifestation for me. So, please, please
49. 2:07be super mindful about where you're
50. 2:09keeping your journals. Anyway, let's
51. 2:11redirect to the topic.
52. 2:14So, I began journaling because I lacked
53. 2:18order. Naturally, I'm a personality who
54. 2:21seeks order. I like to create order out
55. 2:25of chaos. A lot of you watching may not
56. 2:28feel the same way or have a natural
57. 2:30tendency to organize chaos. Some of you
58. 2:33might be more of prospecting type
59. 2:36personalities who are more go with the
60. 2:38flow be type personalities. And that's
61. 2:41okay. You don't have to change who you
62. 2:43are if you don't want to. Journaling is
63. 2:46a powerful transformative tool to change
64. 2:50yourself based on your observations of
65. 2:52your habits, your thoughts, your
66. 2:55self-perceptions,
67. 2:56etc. So, you can journal for basically
68. 3:00any reason. If you want to change your
69. 3:03personality, you can journal about it
70. 3:06and make it into a reality. A lot of
71. 3:09people believe that personality isn't
72. 3:12malleable, but trust me, I actually
73. 3:14changed my personality through three
74. 3:16years of hard work. For example, I went
75. 3:20from being very
76. 3:23inconsistent with homework, with chores,
77. 3:26with building my career. And I'd say I'm
78. 3:30pretty conscientious now. And I've also
79. 3:32went from being a pretty hardcore
80. 3:34introvert to being more on the
81. 3:37ambbervert/exttroverted
82. 3:38side. And I'm also developing more
83. 3:41empathy for others. And please keep in
84. 3:44mind there are plenty of other variables
85. 3:46that play into your personality like
86. 3:48your culture, your geographic location,
87. 3:51and even medical influences.
88. 3:55They can play into your personality.
89. 3:57They can shape your personality. The
90. 4:00first month I started journaling
91. 4:02consistently, it was really, really
92. 4:04uncomfortable. I didn't like reading my
93. 4:06own handwriting. And yes, I did
94. 4:08physically write my journal entries
95. 4:10instead of typing them onto a phone, an
96. 4:13iPad, or a computer just because I felt
97. 4:15like my handwriting is authentic. And it
98. 4:20helps get any energy or emotion that is
99. 4:24turbulent inside of my body onto that
100. 4:27sheet of paper.
101. 4:29So, I'm going to reiterate this again.
102. 4:32Yes, journaling is amazing for self
103. 4:34transformation, but it's also amazing
104. 4:36for emotional regulation as well. If
105. 4:39you're struggling with anxiety,
106. 4:41depression, or any other mental health
107. 4:44crisis or even if you just have like
108. 4:47anger issues or other emotional
109. 4:49problems, please, please journal. It is
110. 4:52so helpful. And I'm not saying that
111. 4:54journaling is the prime source of
112. 4:57getting your emotions in check. Please
113. 4:59reach out to a mental health
114. 5:00professional because I am not one of
115. 5:02those people. Please consult a therapist
116. 5:05or a psychiatrist if you are in serious
117. 5:09need of getting help. So yes, I kind of
118. 5:14sucked at my journal entries for the
119. 5:16first two 3 months of journaling. And
120. 5:20then what really kind of brought it down
121. 5:22for me was that somebody like I had
122. 5:25reiterated before read a journal entry
123. 5:28because when I first started my journal
124. 5:30entries, a lot of them were about
125. 5:31manifestation and manifesting more
126. 5:33friends and more meaningful
127. 5:35relationships and also dependence
128. 5:37because at the time I was struggling
129. 5:40with finding who I am and journaling to
130. 5:43me was almost a way of finding who I was
131. 5:46meant to be and what my purpose was. And
132. 5:50instead of just journaling by itself, I
133. 5:52would actually go 1 2 3 months back or
134. 5:56as far back as I could go and look at
135. 6:00the progress that I had made from my
136. 6:02journal entries. Like for example, me 3
137. 6:06years ago today would be in a state of
138. 6:09insecurity, doubt. I had a lot of inner
139. 6:13gaps that I had to fill. I was very
140. 6:15unhappy with my relationships and I
141. 6:16thought everybody was plotting against
142. 6:19me. Compared to now I have the partner
143. 6:22of my dreams. I have a very strong
144. 6:24relationship with my family. I have
145. 6:26amazing co-workers. I am I give my whole
146. 6:31being into all of my relationships. Like
147. 6:34back then me would just halfass
148. 6:37everything. Seriously, if you have
149. 6:39relationships that you want to improve
150. 6:41on, please journal. And seriously, I
151. 6:44know I'm getting repetitive with all of
152. 6:46this, but I really want to emphasize
153. 6:47just how powerful journaling is because
154. 6:51looking at your old progress compared to
155. 6:53what you've made now is a source of
156. 6:55motivation. Journaling is a massive
157. 6:59source of motivation. It's intrinsic,
158. 7:02too. Intrinsic motivation is the most
159. 7:04meaningful motivation you can find
160. 7:07compared to exttrinsic motivation. You
161. 7:09will find no external reward that is as
162. 7:12satisfying as seeing your own progress
163. 7:15within your own handwriting. Let's skip
164. 7:18forward about six months from now. I had
165. 7:20just entered college and I am a
166. 7:22freshman. I am majoring in psychology
167. 7:26uh/HR
168. 7:28and I'm just taking a few credits
169. 7:30because I'm not disciplined enough to be
170. 7:32a full-time student while working
171. 7:34part-time at the same time. I was in
172. 7:37PSO, so I wasn't graduated from high
173. 7:40school. But during that time was when I
174. 7:44really really started to work on myself
175. 7:46because I kept reading my past entries
176. 7:49and began to realize how much I was
177. 7:52holding back my own potential. You guys,
178. 7:55I want you to reflect on the fact that
179. 7:58almost all suffering is within the mind.
180. 8:01In the religion Buddhism, it is actually
181. 8:04said that the source of all suffering is
182. 8:06within the mind. No matter how traumatic
183. 8:09the external event may be, it is truly
184. 8:13within all of your power to control your
185. 8:16reactions.
186. 8:17Like
187. 8:19I began to realize that I can't control
188. 8:21the circumstances
189. 8:24that I couldn't control like other
190. 8:26people's thoughts about me, other
191. 8:28people's opinions. I used to be very
192. 8:32insecure about what other people were
193. 8:33thinking about me, especially as a
194. 8:36natural introvert who grew up in
195. 8:37isolation. It was heart-wrenching for me
196. 8:41to face rejection or just any form of
197. 8:45disapproval. And then as the months came
198. 8:47on, I began to have a more social life,
199. 8:50but it didn't necessarily get better
200. 8:52because there were still a lot of areas
201. 8:54that I was very blind to, especially in
202. 8:58terms of relationships. I got into
203. 9:00multiple relationships within the span
204. 9:03of just one year. It wasn't necessarily
205. 9:07difficult for me, but I did learn a lot
206. 9:09of lessons. Like in my journal entries,
207. 9:12I was constantly writing down red flags
208. 9:14about these partners that I was ignoring
209. 9:17because my natural tendency is to see
210. 9:19the best in people. And to be honest, I
211. 9:23did ignore my intuition when it was
212. 9:25telling me to run away. when I was
213. 9:27running towards the person that I was
214. 9:29trying to commit to and no matter how
215. 9:31poorly they treated me or how lowc
216. 9:36caliber they were compared to myself, I
217. 9:38was committed because I truly saw the
218. 9:40best in people and it backfired
219. 9:43terribly. The truth is I had to sit in
220. 9:46my misery for a long time and journaling
221. 9:49helped that. I also want to mention
222. 9:51alongside this that I also went through
223. 9:53a lot of counseling during this time. I
224. 9:56initially went to counseling just
225. 9:58because of external circumstances that I
226. 10:02couldn't control because I tend to solve
227. 10:05a lot of problems by myself because of
228. 10:08journaling. But I just want to throw
229. 10:09that variable in there. So, it's not
230. 10:12journaling completely by itself that
231. 10:15transformed me to be who I am, but also
232. 10:17through a combination of emotional
233. 10:19support through having a counselor. I
234. 10:21totally did not do this video orderly,
235. 10:24so please forgive me if I'm jumping
236. 10:26ahead of time frames. Um, around mid
237. 10:292024, I did some very extensive,
238. 10:33intensive self-development work. I
239. 10:36manifested really hard during this time
240. 10:39and a lot of my manifestations were
241. 10:41actually done through my journaling. And
242. 10:44what's funny is that I met my specific
243. 10:48other during this time. And this is when
244. 10:51my life really began to turn around
245. 10:53because I was also trying to manifest a
246. 10:55business job which I am now working at
247. 10:58full-time.
248. 10:59And I was also working on starting to
249. 11:02build my YouTube career, posting more,
250. 11:05planning my YouTube channel projected
251. 11:08growth, getting more into what I was
252. 11:11passionate about, and sitting with any
253. 11:14gaps that I had with myself. At this
254. 11:17point, it is about the end of 2025, and
255. 11:20I am the best that I have ever been. I
256. 11:23can't physically show you guys how much
257. 11:25that I've grown, but if you are a
258. 11:28regular subscriber here on my channel,
259. 11:30you can probably see compared to my
260. 11:32first video that I have improved
261. 11:35significantly.
262. 11:37Um, some major milestones that I want to
263. 11:39note ever since I started journaling was
264. 11:41that I was promoted to full-time at my
265. 11:43job. I was able to nourish relationships
266. 11:47and heal the ones that were broken and
267. 11:49the ones that I had conflicts within. I
268. 11:53recently moved in the past year. I
269. 11:56resolved any anxieties that I've had
270. 11:59throughout my whole life. I feel super
271. 12:01super confident all the time. Everything
272. 12:03I do, I pull my whole heart into. Like I
273. 12:09never halfass anything now. I kind of go
274. 12:12berserk when I'm in the zone. Like I
275. 12:14there's really no denying it. Just
276. 12:16everything I do, I feel happy all the
277. 12:18time. Like there's no such thing as
278. 12:19depression. And without journaling, I
279. 12:22don't think I would have ever been here.
280. 12:25This video isn't just about me yelling
281. 12:28at you, telling why you should start
282. 12:30journaling. This is something I
283. 12:32voluntarily want you to do. If you can
284. 12:35journal every day, I promise you, you
285. 12:37will be a completely different person
286. 12:39within the next year or even sooner. I
287. 12:42just want you to set an intention or set
288. 12:45an alter ego. Whatever it is, set your
289. 12:48vision and journal your way towards it
290. 12:51because you can do anything. The sky is
291. 12:55the limit for you and I want to see you
292. 12:58excel in your life. Thank you guys so
293. 13:00much for watching until the end of this
294. 13:02totally unordered video. If you want to
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298. 13:10channel. Until next time, I will see you
299. 13:12guys. Bye.
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