How Journaling Helps You Become A Better Writer (And A Better Human Being)

Why Journaling has become such an important part of my life and my coaching for writers

Erwin Lima
5 min readSep 17, 2021
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Journaling helps. It really does. I have felt much better, happier and healthier when I journaled every day. And much less focussed and self-directed when I wasn’t.

I even ran into a burnout one day when I had dropped the habit of journaling for a few months. And journaling helped me get back out of that state.

Journaling not only helps you stay more focused. When done the right way it can help you become a much better writer, too.

One of the pilot students in my Growth Storytelling program even told me he saw his output as an entrepreneur double over the period he started using this journaling method daily.

Amazing, right?

Here’s how journaling – and specifically the Daily Growth Journaling exercise I use and recommend my students – can help you become a better writer and a better human being.

Journaling helps you become more mindful

What is journaling it not a written exercise in mindfulness? Especially in my method – but in pretty much any kind of journaling I’ve heard…

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Erwin Lima

Exploring and maximising human potential. I write about tech, marketing, writing, love, money, society; life. Find my newest book here: https://lifebeyond.one/