Your mind is a crime scene.
It is cluttered with stress. It is filled with unfinished tasks. It is noisy with the opinions of people who do not matter.
If you do not clear this mess, you will break.
Most men treat their brains like a storage unit. They stuff every worry and fear inside until the door bursts open.
That is when you snap at your wife. That is when you yell at your kids.
You think you are keeping it together. You are not. You are leaking.
Journaling is not for little girls with crushes. It is for warriors who need to clean their weapons.
General Patton kept a journal. Marcus Aurelius kept a journal. They did not write to complain. They wrote to strategize.
You need to dump the noise out of your head and onto paper. Once it is written down, it cannot hurt you. It becomes an object you can manage.
Stop carrying the weight of the world in your skull. Put it on the page.
The Drill:
- Buy a cheap notebook today. Do not overthink it.
- Open it tonight before bed.
- Write one full page of everything bothering you. Do not stop until the page is full.