"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear." -Joan Didion

The primary goal of the habit of journaling is to tell yourself the truth.

That might sound trivial, but we lie to ourselves all the time. Voices bubble up from our unconscious mind saying all kinds of wonderful and terrible things. And they are not bound by truth.

The challenge is to sift nuggets of truth from the stream of thoughts.

Most of your psyche is unconscious. The conscious mind sits atop a vast unconscious like the seen part of an iceberg that protrudes up out of the sea.

And the contents of your unconscious mind are by definition unknown to you. If they were known, they'd be...conscious.

Writing-especially private writing, writing you do only for you-is the act of getting thoughts on paper so you can do your work of sifting.

Did you know the word "true" is an archery metaphor, as in let the arrow fly true to the target?

Truth is about orientation. It is about where you're going.

Telling yourself the truth is the same as properly aiming at the highest good.

Lies and falseness are like chains that keep you from becoming who you're meant to become, the grandest version of yourself. The Bible teaches us that the truth sets you free.

The habit of journaling is the practice of telling yourself the truth