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30 Days to a better man<br />

knowledge and wisdom from a life well lived. By writing his memoir, he<br />

guaranteed that his legacy will live on indefinitely.<br />

But his life story would have been but a few pages long had he not kept<br />

a journal.<br />

There are a myriad of other benefits to keeping a daily journal besides<br />

remembering what you ate five years ago. So today’s task is to start the<br />

journaling habit.<br />

Great Men Keep Journals<br />

In studying the lives of great men, I’ve noticed a common trait: they were<br />

all consistent journal writers. Now, I’m not saying that their greatness is<br />

directly attributable to their journaling. I’m sure Captain Cook would still<br />

have been a badass even if he hadn’t kept a diary. But I figure, if great men<br />

like these thought it was important to keep a journal, maybe I should, too.<br />

Heck, if it weren’t for their journals, we probably wouldn’t know much<br />

about their great lives and deeds.<br />

Here’s a short list of great men from history who kept journals:<br />

• Theodore Roosevelt<br />

• Thomas Jefferson<br />

• Charles Darwin<br />

• Benjamin Franklin<br />

• Lewis and Clark<br />

• Andrew Carnegie<br />

• Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />

• Captain Cook<br />

• Winston Churchill<br />

• Sir Edmund Hilary<br />

• Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton<br />

• Doogie Howser M.D.<br />

I could go on, but I think you get the idea.<br />

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