Why You Should Carry a Notebook With You Everywhere For Increased Productivity and Mental Health
Channel: Practical Inspiration - Personal Growth & Success
Date: 30/12/2019

In this video on Practical Inspiration we look at why you should carry a notebook with you everywhere for increased productivity and mental health, at the end of which you will carry a note book with you everywhere! Find out great ways to fill your notebooks and learn how this can improve productivity, clarity and mental health.

So learn how to journal every day for increased productivity, clarity and mental health, as well as learn how do you store ideas using a notebook through active journaling.

Below is a summary of the video:

1. Stretch IQ
- While it's debatable whether you can increase your IQ, studies have support the idea that you have the ability to change your IQ
- A report by the University of Victoria noted that "Writing as part of language learning has a positive correlation with intelligence"
- This is because keeping a journal is an exploration of language, abd you'll have the natural urge to search for new words and increase your vocabulary
- The report also says, "One of the best single measures of overall intelligence as measured by intelligence tests is vocabulary"

2. Develop Emotional Intelligence
- Emotional Intelligence is the ability to perceive, understand and manage your emotions as well as those of others
- By Journaling, you have an outlet for processing emotions and increases self-awareness, thus becoming more mindful of your emotions
- This acknowledgement of emotions becomes a bridge of empathy, which helps you better interpret and understand what others are experiencing in a given moment
- By developing emotional intelligence, you can build a stronger rapport and undertanding with others, allowing for much deeper connections

3. Boost Memory
- There's an interesting relationship between motor skills using the hand and the brain, allowing for memory to be improved as a result
- Words allow you to articulate ideas and the formation of letters causes the mind to compose or re-compose ideas while journaling
- This action cements your memory and understanding of previously covered information and forces you to engage in cognitive recall
- ...which is why when studying or learning, it is often suggested to take hand written notes to help you remember the information you are learning

4. Improve Communication Skills
- A Stanford report has previously stated that writing has critical connections to speaking
- As journaling is a form of written communication, it can serve to help you help you develop your communication skills, including your speaking skills
- Not only will you learn to articulate your thoughts in more effective and creative ways, but you will also develop you vocabulary
- All of this will help you be more confident in a place where communication is paramount, which in today's world is in almost every role someone might undertake

5. Increase Creativity
- When you write you encourage creative thinking and all thoughts and emotions to flow more freely and naturally as you write
- If you develop skills in learning to write without thinking, also called "stream of consciousness" writing, it will help you overcome potential writer's block
- ...and also help you articulate and bring out thoughts and ideas you previously never realised you had within you
- So learn to write daily within a notebook, as doing so will help you unlock talents within you that you never realised existed

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