Progress Supplemental

Journaling is a powerful tool for progress and coaching. It allows you to become your own coach by recording your actions and progress. Journaling reduces stress and helps you reflect on your growth. It can also be used to observe and learn from others, leading to improvement and practice. Overall, journaling is a highly effective strategy for accelerating progress. When it comes to progress and supplemental coaching, I think one of the most powerful things you can do, and if you have not read the book, The Progress Principle, we've actually been teaching journal-based coaching long before the book was published, yet they also really promote this concept and that is journaling. When you journal or record daily, maybe weekly, maybe bi-daily, the things you're doing and where you feel like you're progressing, you become your own coach. The greatest thing that we can all do is become our own coach, to ask ourselves questions, to take actions and our answers, to look in the mirror and be honest with ourselves. And there is no greater concept that can facilitate that than progress. So journaling, according to Therese Amable in her book, and I might get this statistic wrong, it reduces stress by up to 22 to 23%. So you tend to kind of absolve yourself. You tend to get it out of your system. When you write it down, what you're essentially doing is you're creating a journal entry saying, here's where I'm progressing. And you look down, you bring your other senses in, you're reading it, you're writing it, and you're coaching yourself. So going back to our example of Joanne, who is going to do a public presentation and she's not as comfortable as she would like to be, supplemental coaching of journaling is very powerful. Number two, when you have an area, again, let's use our public speaking, you could also use the journal where people observe and write down other people who are speaking, what they do well, what you've learned from that observation, and they write that down and maybe put it into an action of what they're going to do to facilitate improvement and or practice. That's the cool thing. So when you journal, journal is a very powerful strategy to facilitate and accelerate progress.