Hey everyone, I wanted to take a few minutes and talk to you about some of my favorite journals because I over last several months I've been trying to get more analog because every time I open my phone It's a distraction machine and so I've been moving more and more to writing things down with pen and paper and so my YouTube Suggested videos right now are just tons of people talking about their journals and I was like, why don't I make one talking about my journal? Experience and some of my favorites and so today what I want to talk to you about I have several different ways that I journal so I have my Bullet journal type thing that I do and I'll talk about this sometime my setup for this I've modified the bullet journal methodology for myself as a pastor like how that how it best helps me But today what I want to talk to you about is kind of my daily writing journal that turns into a Pocket journal that I use for doing stand-up comedy and for that I use just a generic dot grid journal and so If you don't know who I am my name is Jason. I am a pastor, but I'm also I do stand-up comedy for fun Z's It's a little hobby. It is not something that I'm like I'm gonna be a stand-up comedian someday It's just fun to do and I get to meet a lot of people and and so One of the things that has been a discipline that I've been building over the last about nine months is taking time to write everyday right something every day and Some people would call this like morning pages and there's a like right for 25 minutes or three full pages I don't have that kind of time and so I write I try to write 10 minutes a day and I started in my Everyday journal and I was just going through the journal too quickly. So I Decided to set aside for my own little Independent jokes journal and I I mark it here on the side jokes journal and the day I started this one is November 1st 2023 and so in this journal Basically every day I Ten minutes takes me about ten minutes to write a day's worth Of jokes and it's one page and most of these most of these jokes are garbage They're never going to get out of this journal and onto a stage But every once in a while I as I'm Processing through my garbage jokes. I do come across something that is That I want to develop more and so I'll come back around to it like this morning. I talk I was talking about Manifestos and how we call them manifestos and it's usually just one guy who gets really Fested out about something and that's why we called a manifesto and I'm like, I don't know if that's funny It made me chuckle this morning and so I for tomorrow's notes. I actually made a note like hey start with this come back to that and so Yeah, so I just kind of write these down every Every every day and I you know, I don't get it every day. I try to do it every day But I bought this generic Amazon notebook and I'll see if I can find a link and you can get one too, but it's a dot grid And it has a ton of pages and that's why I went with this one But then what's has been great for me when I do go to an open mic or do a show I this journal has a little pocket here and inside that pocket is just large enough for one of these Noteworks journals now people talk about field notes and I have field notes. I've used field notes field notes They're good. They're great, but in my experience, they're actually just a little They're a little too small for me to to even write in and so compare a field notes to the the notebooks journal this is This is more real estate for me to write in and so what I will do when I'm gonna go to an open mic is I will actually write out the the jokes that I want to tell For that open mic. I'll just write them all out here and this is big enough that I can set it down on the stool That's usually on this on the stage and I can just look at it without bringing up this Massive journal and saying I'd like to read to you from this thing instead. I can just bring this little Little thing up now. How did I find? No works I went to high school with somebody named Weston and he posted on Facebook that his company a Print shop in the Seattle area they were going to start making these little notebooks and so I was like oh I love notebooks I and I you know I want to support my my friends and their businesses and so I I bought some and they I bought six and they come in these excellent. Let me real quick just grab something They come in these little cases that are sorry I have a dog They come in these cases that are like VHS cassettes and you can label the side if you want to save them And they all just come right into there. It's a storage solution as well But yeah, they're great and they're also small enough to put in my pocket my back pocket And so if I'm doing a show and I don't want to have my notes out on a stage I'd but I want to be able to like review the headlines the main points of my my set Then I can just have it in my pocket before I go up and kind of take it out and look at it and like kind of hit the beats of the thing But this little journal field Noteworks has been a huge help and so yeah So I that's kind of my my joke writing journal Process as I have a bigger journal for daily writing and then I have this for performance and That has been a great help for me to be able to Use these two and so writing things down. It has been way better than trying even though Yeah, I can't search through these things It has been way more helpful for me to write it down then to try to type it into my phone and then look for it I don't know something about the analog method has been really Wonderful and so yeah, so if you have any questions or any thoughts on this or if you want to And links on the notebooks. I'll throw the link down there for these awesome little journals But yeah, if you have any questions, comments, concerns, fears, trepidations, whatever, let me know and Thanks for taking the time to watch this little video in the future. I do want to do my like I said I'll do my bullet journal modification Video for how I use this as a pastor This has been one of the best things that I have started doing in the last year. It has changed So much about how I feel about my life by putting it down on paper instead of trying to live with it all in On my phone, so Write it down folks write it down. Thank you everybody. Bye