Journaling about your goals helps you clarify what you want and encourages you to consider the why and how not just the what. 

It serves as a tool for identifying what you should prioritize on a daily basis, and what you should let go of. And it also gives you a record of the progress you’v...

• Recording your thoughts in a medium outside your own head helps your mind to become quieter: It stops returning to the same worn-out mental loops over and over. 
• When you recount and reflect upon your thoughts and experiences you are, in effect, telling your own story. Jour...

The key to learning is to stop passively consuming information and start actively engaging with the ideas we encounter.

One effective way researchers have found to reinforce learning is through reflective writing: It promotes the brain’s attentive focus, boosts long-term memory, illu...