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Where did this vision of you journaling come from, Alex?

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I will be open a little bit and vulnerable because during my journey of entrepreneurship and building products,

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I'm a programmer by trade and when I started to create different products and to create different startups,

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what I understood from my experience is that I was not missing technical skills and I was not missing marketing skills.

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What was I missing is nobody taught me how to manage myself, how to manage my emotions,

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how to stay clear of what I want, how to stay consistent.

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And because of that, I really was struggling and was not getting results with my endeavors as I wanted.

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And then I started to learn psychology and understanding my human nature better

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and taking different personal development courses and so on.

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But what there I realized was a missing link, a practical link, that okay, I can read about becoming more productive

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or I can read about creating a habit and most people end on that stage.

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So they don't implement that knowledge, information inside of their mind, inside of their life.

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And when I started journaling back years ago, I understood that journaling helps me to actually put everything that I'm learning into practice.

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And that's how it all started.