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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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