Capturing What’s Most Important | Josiah Igono, Erik Averill | Athlete CEO #52

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It’s been estimated that the human mind is capturing anywhere between 10,000-60,000 thoughts per day, and that we scroll somewhere in the range of the Statue of Liberty’s to the Eiffel Tower’s height per day.

We are inundated with information every day – how do you capture what’s most important to unlock your full human capital?

By utilizing one of the most pivotal tools of performance: journaling.

Through the frontal lobe, the brain has a built-in functionality to sift through the proverbial firehose of information we’re consuming throughout our days and makes executive decisions on what to store and what to sift out, so a constant barrage of information can actually tax the performance of that function.

So as Josiah puts it, “you cannot use what you can’t access.”

With the habit of journaling, we unlock the ability to note the most important points from that recent book we’ve read, performance notes from our last training session, map out our big goals, and it even helps us address stress and anxiety.

Our resident performance coach and founder of All Things Performance, Josiah Igono, joins Erik once again to discuss this topic and how to implement it in our lives to improve our performance in all areas of life.
Episode Highlights

• Stats of the daily firehose of information (1:34)
• How journaling helps us use the information we gather daily to actually become actionable (4:07)
• “You cannot use what you cannot access” – Josiah Igono (5:47)
• How journaling helps us set goals and find clarity (8:27)
• How journaling can help with stress and anxiety (11:47)
• “A listening ear has a healing quality” – Josiah Igono (12:12)
• What is stream-of-consciousness journaling? (13:02)