I do indeed enjoy keeping a journal and as well writing with a fountain pen thanks for highlighting the mind journal!

Another home run video chap, salute to you 🙏🏾 Continue to put out great work

Haven't kept a journal for a while but you have inspired me to start again. Cheers Ron

Love your voice and delivery! Very spot on!

Ash another good topic, yes it an increasing expansion of a diary. Ah Germany happy times there, I still drink weisbier. Writing helps with focusing the mind and creativity. Thanks for the vid! Chris

Another interesting and helpful video! Thanks!

Dear Ash, again a helpful contribution. Unfortunately, I also lost a few handwritten diaries. Last year I started to write down the lost memories again. With a fountain pen and real paper, of course. So everything lives on. Best regards, Mathias 😎

I am 65 and have lead a very adventurous life. I would love to have even a basic diary of my exploits. I push it on young people. On the other side I enjoyed every moment and was engulfed in absorbing the moment. Free from any modern distraction like a phone. I think the way to do it is be in the moment, be in one place, of one mind…be all there. Then later reflect and write it down. Very good topic and video.

Not something I have ever done in my life. But thanks to your review I am going to try it. Thanks Ash, Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Very interesting video, once again. For reasons best known to themselves, our company gave every member of staff a copy of a similar product, “The Head Plan”, in their Christmas hamper. It seems to emphasise planning more than retrospective recording of details and events. Like you, I’m persuaded that I might just give it a go.

I have kept a journal for every day for forty years, and haphazard for a previous ten years. It requires a lot of discipline, but it it rewarding and it is a great friend to share my life with.

I will start mind journaling to now

P.S. Ash I am jealous of your weather. Happy Christmas and all the best in the coming year! Starlight

I kept a diary when I was younger. Started when I was at primary school just writing snippets of what I did during the day in little notebooks. By 12 I was writing in a specific diary, but after a couple of years I switched to a dedicated hardback notebook as I found the pre-allotted space in diaries frustrating. I lapsed writing when I started university, and only really started again a couple of years ago when I started my own company and wanted something I could look back on to check details of events and actions. Initially fountain pen in a hardback notebook, but in summer this year I switched to an iPad. Not very happy with the feel of the Apple pencil, even with various covers/tips etc but the convenience of the iPad is very good. I'm hoping that tip technology will improve. Still experimenting with different apps too.

Been writing on and off since childhood in a good ole’ Mole Skin journal.

I fell in love with this book in just two days of journaling. My only issue is that it's only offered three months worth of journaling. I wish they would make one for one year length of time.

I wish I had the patience and the discipline to keep a diary, however I do not have that. I guess I'm also afraid my life isn't interesting enough to write about. I will certainly give it a try, using your tips. Especially in situations that are stressful and occupy my mind.

The Mind Journal is also something that has popped up on many of my social feeds. What happens beyond the 3 months, or when the book is full? Is this the first book of a series or simply 'the' book to reset your mind and writing habit and start you on a journalling journey after which a normal notebook will suffice? Very helpful video indeed.

interesting... I've kept a daily diary since May 2010... and have also done my life story - literally tens of thousands of pages of word documents... I have them in word documents as I'm able to search on key events, and each document of my diary covers a single month and have them stored in folder structures of each year...i have various snippets from social media etc pasted in them, and I've also taken some 100k photos since june 2002 and store them in seperate folder structures of the 'year' and subfolders of each location / event etc.. and my life story are documents for each decade up until my 30s (30's is a bit sparse - but have a lot of emails etc since then)... and I've been catching up on my photos recently and interesting to cross reference some random ones with what i typed up in my diary in recent years.. my lady thought it was a bit strange when i was typing away when we first met - as I was initially a bit embarrassed to tell her, but she likes the idea of it and in amazed that i can remember things from my past, whereas she can;t seem to remember much about hers.. :(

Another excellent video. Would be interested in learning about your outfit, perhaps at the start or end of the video?

I believe there are serious differences between journals and diaries, and this is evident when reading a few dozen historical journals and diaries. Significant differences. Maybe it's difference in your area of the world, but never, ever did any man I know ever say he kept a diary. It was always a journal. So it is with me. FOR ME, I journal more like a mix of Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci (Without the genius, unfortunately) Winston Churchill, and Mark Twain than in the way most think of a diary or journal. I'm too old to worry very much about the future now, but I've tried systems several times that had similarities to the Mind Journal. They never worked at all, and neither does the mind journal. Still, I have recommended the Mind Journal because I really do just about everything in it, only without the structured exercises, if that makes sense. That's just how my mind works. I spent thirty years earning a living as a writer, and I can attest to how much keeping a journal helps. I can also say there is strong scientific evidence to say that not only is keeping a handwritten journal far more beneficial than keeping a digital journals, there is similar, and perhaps even more compelling evidence that creative writing benefits hugely when handwritten. In short, we do not "write" letters and words, we DRAW them, and in doing so we fire up the creative center of the brain automatically. This is not to say that great fiction can't be written digitally, only that the process is easier when it's analog. Oddly, for reasons no one can yet explain, a manual typewriter works almost as well. Electris typewriters and keyboards do not work at all. With these, you have to do all the work yourself. Anyway, that's why I own a Namiki Maki-e and a Namiki Chinkin. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. My wife seems to believe I could have written just as well with much cheaper fountain pens, but the IRS actually sided with me, more or less, so she decided not to poison my coffee.

I wouldn't call journaling a "trend"...humans have been doing this for literally thousands of years. We just call it journaling today.