Do you read your old journals?

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Just went looking through my last journal to find something and ended up skimming through the entire thing. It’s mainly just rough thoughts, notes from conversations with my wife (yes, I take notes!), and a lot of quotes from podcasts, etc. that I didn’t want to forget… But now it’s this amazing resource that I can use to write blog posts, do videos on, new website ideas, social media posts, etc. All these things are the reason WHY I keep a journal in the first place… So I can write ideas down and not forget them. Problem is… I write all this great stuff down - filling up piles of journals - and I just keep filling them up. I rarely go back to look at what I wrote. I mostly don’t look at them because I know what happens when I do… I get sucked into my thoughts and end up reading and reading and reading… Thinking to myself… “Wow, that’s a great idea… I should DO that! Oh… look, another great idea… Oh, wow, that’s a deep thought, I should just screw the rest of the afternoon and think about that… Dude, I need to journal on this.” But putting stuff down in a journal is easy. Refining that stuff and putting it out into the world is the hard part. That’s work… but it can be fun work… it requires taking risks and being okay when something doesn’t work out. So, I’ve got a lot of stuff collected in these journals. It’s time to start taking more risks and putting them out into the world, don’t ya think? It’s true, I have been putting stuff out there (on my blog and YouTube channel, etc.) but not too consistently. I’m not really one for new year’s resolutions… but I predict you’ll be seeing more blog posts & more videos from me this year. Half the battle has already been fought! I have the outlines / rough drafts all laid out in my journals :). So… Do YOU keep a journal? Do you go back and read what you wrote? Do you take ACTION on those things?