In 2009 I graduated from a top US college with a bachelor’s degree in biology, and couldn’t get a job in my field.

I moved back in with my parents, ambitious, hungry for living out my dream that I always wanted to do.

And then reality hit me.

"Ugh. It's been six months and I haven't even gotten a goddamn reply to my resumes I've been shotgunning out.”

I was sending out 20 a day, at a clip of close to 150 a week, and after six months I was no closer to getting any job, let alone the dream job I had envisioned for myself.

I legitimately was so desperate, that I posted this ad in Whole Foods markets and on my personal Facebook page:

I'm not kidding you, I actually posted this in public.

I had never had a serious relationship in my life, or ever felt the feeling of “being in love.”

I had traveled a little bit, but there were all these epic places all over the world I wanted to go.

I had wanted to get fit and gained some muscle, but had a hard time sticking with my gym routine to get consistent results.

One night, I went down for dinner with my parents.

I was moping around like a little baby again, acting grumpy, feeling sorry for myself, really unhappy with how things were going.

They both looked at me concerned, then said:

"What's up?'

I tried really hard not to cry when I said, "I literally hate everything about my life - every minute of it." 

They had never really seen me at the bottom of the barrel like this, so they said:

"We're really worried about you - why don't you take your savings and just go on a trip somewhere? Even though you never wanted to use that money... go do something fun..."

They were legitimately worried I might do something stupid.

Really stupid.

Thankfully, the next day, I decided to reflect on my life.

That was the day I discovered something incredibly powerful.

I started spending a few hours each day in coffee shops, because I hated going home and getting nagged by my parents.

And it was around this time that my love of personal development started, where I started reading personal development books every day because I wanted to change everything about my life.

One of the hundreds of books I read was Think and Grow Rich.

Another was an audiotape by Jim Rohn.

But one interview I liked more than the others: The interview with Andrew Carnegie from 1908, where he said:

Write down one’s definite major purpose, and read it aloud twice a day.

And later I found Earl Nightingale, who said:

“For whatever problem you’re struggling with in your life, take out one page in a journal, and write out 10 ideas for how to overcome it.”

I never would’ve guessed that such a simple exercise would change my life over the next five years.

I first used this journaling exercise to improve my physical fitness - and I got in the fittest shape I had ever been.

My body fat levels were low enough that I had a year-round six pack.

And then to write my first self-published book, three years ago, Master the Day.

My book came out, and it was an instant #1 amazon bestseller - in all three health categories I put it in.

To make enough money to travel with my girlfriend at the time:

And I finally committed to going after my passion: Chinese Medicine - and moved to the west coast to start.

… And I did all of these at once, in the same three year period after my deepest depression.

Here’s what’s weird.

When I started journaling, I started noticing all kinds of success people in history who did it too.

When I dug deeper, I learned a series of strategies I’ve hardly seen anywhere else, and are surprisingly simple, yet effective.

THOMAS EDISON: Thomas Edison was one of the prolific, richest, and most famous inventors that ever lived. Here are a few pages from his sketchbook where he would flesh out ideas.

CHARLES DARWIN: Darwin became one of the most famous scientists that ever walked the face of the earth - who founded the theory of evolution. These are some of his sketches.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Albert Einstein is one of the most recognizable faces in the scientific world, famous for his theory of relativity. He kept private journals too.

LEONARDO DA VINCI - see above Leonardo Da Vinci has private journals where he worked out art, math, science, and engineering feats that were hundreds of years ahead of his time. His journals to solve these problems look like works of art themselves.

The reality is that journaling does three primary things:

Journaling creates clarity, which leads to direction.

Journaling turns huge goals into practical action steps.

Journaling makes you feel focused, rather than confused, and motivated.

Since then, I've turned my "strategy pages" journaling exercise into an online program.

Inside the Strategy Page Journaling Program

The Strategy Page Journaling program is designed to help you find the right goals, set them, and get the clarity to achieve them.

You’ll get these lessons in a four-week online video course that covers the ENTIRE process of using journaling to set - and achieve - your goals.

You’ll learn the exact mindset, strategies, habits, and tactics to figure out which goals to set, smash through motivational slumps, set the right goals for you, and ultimately, achieve goals in a fraction of the time.

Specifically, you’ll use the strategy page journaling technique that I’ve used over the last three years.

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Plus, You'll Also Get These Bonuses as Part of the Success Journaling Program