Daily Journaling: Your Path to Self-Mastery and Growth

It may well be that we don't need so much to correct our weaknesses as to improve our access to our strengths. -- Dr. Brett Steenbarger

The key word: Access, to our strengths. In my years as a daily reader of self-help and philosophical content, I am convinced of one direct way to access our strengths, while simultaneously becoming aware of our weaknesses: Journaling.

Weaknesses hinder progress by their destructive nature — generally it’s either we are OVER-doing something, or UNDER-doing something, normally we will UNDER-do something hard but important for our growth, and, astonishingly, we will OVER-do something trivial and harmful to our growth! We will over-eat, we will over-react to passing emotions, we will over-rate failure. Consequently, we will under-do exercise, we will under-do any form of self-improvement.

Consequently we will not discover and sharpen our strengths — and without strengths, how can we ever compete at the highest levels? Where talents and strengths contribute to victory.

Through daily journaling - you will raise your awareness on these human tendencies, or human weaknesses — and, you will improve, daily, weekly, yearly — you will master yourself.

You will strengthen your strengths & talents — you will starve your weaknesses.

Cancelo Alvarez

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