A Two-Column Journaling Exercise for Self-Improvement

If you wanna change your life so

fast it feels illegal, you need to

try this one exercise.

Every time I have had a huge

quantum leap and

completely changed my life,

I have done this.

So grab a journal and make two columns.

And in the column on the right, write your name 2.0.

So here I wrote Sarah 2.0. In

this column, you are going to

write all of the things that you desire for yourself.

So maybe you want 50K months,

maybe you want your best body ever,

maybe you

want a soulmate relationship.

Now, I know you've

heard this part before.

What you are going to do now is

you are going to write down all

of the thoughts, beliefs,

habits, and qualities

of the person, the version of

you, who has those things.

Don't say you don't know what those things

are or you would be doing them because I

promise you do know some things. So

for example, if you wrote

best body ever, that version

of you, maybe they're

going to the gym three

times a week. If you wrote 50K month,

that version of you is maybe

doing like outreach to leads

or brands that they wanna

collaborate with. Maybe

they're posting every day on social

media, whatever it is.

This version of you maybe speaks

kindly to herself so that you

have the confidence to move

through a room the way you want to.

Maybe this version of you, um, gets

herself ready

every morning.

Really think about the granular habits,

beliefs, and ways of

being. This is so, so important.

You are getting crystal clear on

who this future version of

you is, not just in terms

of what they have,

but how they are

showing up in the world to have those things.

Now you're going to go into the

column on the right and you're gonna write your

name 1.0. This is you now, and

you're gonna look at all of the things

you

wrote in the first

column in terms of habits,

thoughts, beliefs, ways of

being, and you are going to

see which of those you are

or are not doing now, and you're

going to write down what you're

doing

now in those parts of your

life. So maybe you wrote down

self-compassionate

in the first column, but

really you're super

self-critical, so

you're gonna write that

here. And this isn't about shaming yourself,

it's about

collecting data and

looking at where are the gaps

between where you desire to be and where you are now.

So write all of those

down. Then you are

going to circle all of these

places where you have

gaps. So you said gym three times a week,

but you never go,

circle that. All of those gaps that you identified, those are your

starting point for changing your life.

And if some of them feel too big,

you can totally start small.

It's going to get easier and easier to build.

Try it and let me know what you think.