Record your thoughts:

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Record your thoughts.

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Record your ideas.

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Write them down.

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Put them somewhere.

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It’s worth keeping them for older you.

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Just to understand who you were at what time in your life.

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Even if no one sees what you’ve done, it’s worth putting it down.

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Saw this Instagram video of a girl whose dad wrote in a diary with his daughters and made them write a letter to themself on their birthday every year.

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She’s looking at it now as a teenager and she was crying.

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So grateful.

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So grateful someone told her to record her thoughts.

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That’s what a lot of this is for me.

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To see who I was like at different points in my life.

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To track my growth.

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To see if I can create something great.

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Even if I don’t, all of this was worth it.

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All the work.

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All the time.

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All the dark days.

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It was worth it for the random things you come up with that could be life-changing.

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You never know if what you’ll create will resonate with people.

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But if you do it long enough and produce enough work, someone’s bound to like some of it.

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This is what I wish people knew.

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The work you do on yourself is the best time you’ll ever spend.

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Stop wasting your time.

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Stop letting the rest of the world tell you what to think.

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Figure out what you think by recording it.

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One of the greatest decisions I made in my life was starting a journal.

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A consistent practice of figuring out my mind.

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Most of what I’ve written is awful.

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It’s horrible.

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Yet some of what I’ve done is not bad.

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Some of the stuff I can’t even believe I’ve written.

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I sometimes can’t believe the progress.

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But the cool thing is I can see it.

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I can track my growth over time.

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That’s what writing should be to you.

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Imagine giving that writing to yourself in 10 years, or your kids.

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Think about how what you’re doing today can provide so much value to people who don’t even exist.

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Just by trying.

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Just by being consistent, pushing through failure and creating.

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Creating something only you know how to do.

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It’s worth writing for next generations and even if you don’t believe that, it’s worth it for yourself.

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Get them down on paper.

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Record your thoughts.

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