☀️ A Life Note morning, without the journaling

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"A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts."
— James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

Dear Life Noters,

This is how I start my morning now, with Life Note.

And... It's not journaling.

It's writing down my five daily affirmations before I journal. They aren't affirmations I found on a list somewhere on the internet. They're the ones my mentors think I need, drawn from my journal entries.

I've found this to be powerful for a couple of reasons.

1. Within a few seconds of writing my affirmations, my hands, mind, and heart are all focused on a single state of mind.
2. The affirmations quickly put me in the mindset I want and help me remember them throughout the day.
3. Journaling sometimes takes more activating energy. Starting with affirmations actually warms me up for my morning journal. Wonderful!

Also, for those who are skeptical about affirmations, I was one of you too, but then I found out how effective they are. Tobi, the ceo and founder of Shopify, said it helped him overcome his fear of public speaking within a week. Ten minutes a day, writing it down. And studies have shown that affirming what you value activates regions involved in reward and self-processing.

If you've written an entry recently, your personalized affirmations are already waiting in Life Note. Try them out, and I hope you enjoy this one as much as I do!

P.S. You can also write to affirm your life goal now with this update.

Before More Updates... Join Our Discord Community!

Join our community to share your weekly inner portrait with others and help shape the future of Life Note! The people who join now will get 'First Roots' on their membership badge to show off their early membership : )

Now: Other Life Note Updates

Reimagine your week: art-direct your Inner Portrait

We've now launched a way for you to direct the art yourself by reimagining your inner portrait. If you are not happy with that week's portrait, just step in!

Other updates to journal better

More private

• You can now make your push notifications private on mobile

More intentional

• Add a goal from a mentor's response by highlighting the text
• Assign a mentor with your specific daily practice and rituals.
• Your daily prompt now focuses on different areas of growth, and the last 10 of them are saved
• Manage all the people mentioned in your journal entries in one place — add their photos, and revisit every entry they appear in

More wisdom

• 14 new mentors, including a circle on raising children and being taught: Plutarch, Maria Montessori, Janusz Korczak, and John Dewey, to name a few.

At last, I'm working on something many people have asked for before: a quarterly review with Life Note. Right now, I'm calling it... Seasons, where your life will be understood and more in sync with nature's rhythm. I'm pretty excited to share that with you soon.

With Love,

Daniel W. Chen

不寫日記開始的 Life Note 早晨

「一個人，其實就是他思想的總和；他的性格，正是他所有思想累積而成的結果。」
— 詹姆斯・艾倫，《As a Man Thinketh》

Dear Life Noters，

我現在每天的早晨，是這樣從 Life Note 開始的。

不是寫日記（咦？）

而是先寫下五句自我肯定語（然後再寫晨間日記）。

這些肯定語不是網路上某個清單找來的，而是導師根據我近期日記裡特別建議的。

我覺得這件事很有力量，有幾個原因。

1. 在打下肯定語的幾秒之內，我的手、我的心、我的念頭，全都集中在同一個想法上。
2. 這些肯定語很快就把我帶進我需要的理想狀態，也讓我在一整天裡都記得它。
3. 寫日記有時候需要比較多的啟動能量。先從肯定語開始，像是暖身一樣，讓我更容易接著寫下去。太好了！

另外，如果你對「肯定語」這件事有點懷疑，我以前也是其中一個，直到我發現它真的有效。Shopify 的創辦人兼執行長 Tobi 說，這幫助他在一週之內克服了對公開演講的恐懼。每天十分鐘，把它寫下來。而研究也顯示，肯定自己真正重視的事物，會活化大腦中與獎賞和自我處理有關的區域。

如果你最近寫過日記，你的專屬肯定語已經在 Life Note 裡等你了。試試看，希望你也和我一樣喜歡這個更新！

P.S. 這次更新之後，你也可以用書寫來肯定你的人生目標了。

在更多更新之前⋯⋯來加入我們的 Discord 社群！

加入我們的社群，和大家分享你每週的內觀畫，也一起參與形塑 Life Note 的未來！現在加入的人，會在會員徽章上拿到「First Roots」，代表你是最早的一批成員 : )

接下來：其他 Life Note 更新

重新想像：親自導演你的內觀畫

如果這週收到的內觀畫不滿意，現在你可以親自來當藝術導演了，重新想像你的內觀畫。就描述最適合自己這週的狀態的內觀畫！

其他讓你書寫得更好的更新

更隱私

• 手機上的推播通知，現在可以設定成不顯示私密的日記內容

更有意識

• 在導師的回覆裡選取一段文字，就能直接把它變成一個目標
• 為你特定的日常練習與儀式指定導師
• 你的每日提問現在會聚焦在不同的成長面向，最近十則也會被保存下來
• 在同一個地方管理所有出現在你日記裡的人，幫他們加上照片，也能回顧他們出現過的每一篇日記

更多智慧

• 新增 14 位導師，更多關於孩童教育的導師：普魯塔克、瑪麗亞・蒙特梭利、雅努什・柯札克、約翰・杜威等等。

最後，我正在設計一個許多人一直敲碗的功能：Life Note 季度回顧。現在我暫時叫它……季節，你的日記與生活將會更貼近自然的節奏。很期待很快能跟你分享！

帶著愛，

Daniel W. Chen