“Keystone habits are small changes or habits that people introduce into their routines that unintentionally carry over into other aspects of their lives.” - Charles Duhigg

Journaling is a keystone habit because the act of logging your thoughts, reflecting on them, and writing about them creates positive change in your life. In this course, we will explore how to practice the art of journaling through my 3-notebook system, and we will also spend a section on digital journaling with Day One.

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Inspire Now Journal

This video is about my first journal, which I started to use as part of my daily journaling practice. Before going for the Inspire Now journal, I researched and tried a ton of different productivity planners. I wanted one that fit my expectations in terms of data tracking and insights, and this journal was the closest match, but with a few tweaks of my own which I cover as well.

Dotted Notebook

If I had to burn all my notebooks except one, I would keep this one. I use this journal to write and draw on the go, or at my desk. I log article ideas, pitches, sketches. I’ve journaled this way since I was a kid, and all the ideas that have driven me and lifted me the most in my life have been generated through this messy, imperfect but great journal/notebook.

5-Year Memory book

This is an amazing tool for self-development, motivation, and long-term vision. So many people pick up something to work on, tell themselves they’re going to keep at it and drop it after 3 weeks and no results. But the secret is consistency, and the long-term vision of filling out a page of this notebook every single day for 5 years can be really helpful in achieving your goals.

Digital journaling with Day One

Day One is mainly sold as a journaling app, but a “library for your journals app” would be a more accurate description in my opinion. It’s not just one journal, it’s many. The beauty of Day One is that it makes everything organized naturally. Whenever you open your digital journal to write in it, everything you type will be made searchable and filterable by content type, by text, by date… That’s one of the big advantages over physical journaling, where things can get messy really quickly. In this section, I also cover my 2 custom-made templates for Day One, for daily and weekly logging.

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Who am I?

Hey, I'm Joseph Mavericks! Learning to live with a purpose and improve myself has changed my life, and I publish content online about the journey. In August of 2019, I took one of the biggest decisions in my life: commit to blogging for at least 6 months, and see where it would take me. Up until then, I had tried dozens of different projects, without ever sticking with one long enough to see any kind of progress. This time around, I decided to treat blogging like a job, to be extremely consistent, and to not drop it at the first obstacle on the road.

Over 2 years later I'm still here, and part of my original drive to stick to content creation for a little while was found in the act of journaling. As part of my self-discovery journey around productivity and entrepreneurship, I have interviewed over 75 people who own their businesses and/or create content online. 60% of all the people I asked about journaling journal regularly. Either physically or digitally, daily, weekly, monthly, at a specific time, or at any time… The practice of journaling was a big component of their answers about productivity, and I strongly believe journaling is an inherent part of success.

I have been journaling on and off for the past 10 years, and I started switching to a consistent practice right around the time I started committing to blogging. I have experienced with a lot of different journaling systems, and this course will go over the one I ended up choosing. My goal with this course is to share with you what I’ve learned about journaling with my own system, to hopefully help you build a journaling framework that will boost your productivity, your happiness, and your life in general.

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Other useful links

My 50 People Who Do Interview guide - josephmavericks.com/50people

My blog - medium.com/@josephmavericks

Clarissa Dalton

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