A Daily Routine for Growth Mindset & Gratitude That Will Change Your Life with Alex Ikonn, Creator of The Five Minute Journal and The Productivity Planner

Allowed: Conscious Leadership and Personal Growth with Dr. Caneel Joyce

As creative thinkers and entrepreneurs, we create tools and products because we, ourselves, need to work on something. For Canadian entrepreneur superstar, Alex Ikonn, co-founder of Intelligent Change and creator of the best-selling Five Minute Journal and Productivity Planner, gratitude was his Achilles heel. When Alex, who had a challenging childhood and at times had felt like a victim of his circumstances, learned the power of gratitude, it shifted his whole life.

If you have scarcity in your life of some sort, whether it be from things that are happening in your family, in your career, or in relationships, you can get into that trap of saying, "Why me?"

When Alex had that first huge realization that you are planting seeds to your reality with your everyday thoughts and that what you focus on, you cultivate and create in your life, everything changed for him. He learned that if you want to make any difference in your life, you have to take responsibility. This led him to create tools like the Five Minute Journal that could act like “toothbrushes for the mind” and help people build new, healthy habits through a daily routine of being grateful that catapults them on a new life trajectory through changing their mindset.

No one can make you unhappy. Once you take responsibility in your life, there is power. If you take care of that one being that you can be responsible for – YOU – you're making a massive change that will create a ripple effect and you're going to inspire others.

In this episode, Alex Ikonn shares his personal journey and it demonstrates how one truly simple question, asked once per day, can make a massive, fundamental difference in your life.

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Chapters

1. A Daily Routine for Growth Mindset & Gratitude That Will Change Your Life with Alex Ikonn, Creator of The Five Minute Journal and The Productivity Planner (00:00:00)

2. Meet Alex Ikonn, the co-founder of Intelligent Change and co-creator of the best-selling Five Minute Journal. (00:05:45)

3. There are huge benefits for your mental health and learning and growth process of using tangible items such as a pen and paper. (00:09:59)

4. How the Five Minute Journal is a reflection of Alex Ikonn's life journey. (00:13:37)

5. How the victim mindset plays into a fixed existence. Change your beliefs and state of being into a growth and gratitude mindset and you are able to change your habits and eventually your life. (00:18:07)

6. How Intelligent Change and the Five Minute Journal was created out of the idea of growing a lifestyle business. (00:25:11)

7. How to use the Five Minute Journal as support in using the Change Formula. (00:34:35)

8. Caneel shares a story about the magic that happens when you make the decision to express your gratitude. (00:59:39)