 What can we do to start journaling from a leadership standpoint to raise that self-awareness? Most people don't understand the value. And so they don't do it. They're like, yeah, journaling, I heard it's good, but I don't really, whatever I've heard these sayings, journal, journal, journal, what about it? So the utility value in journaling and what journaling does is it helps you practice extracting your own inner wisdom. So as a leadership coach, when I'm working with individuals, AJ, I just noticed this, you swallowed a few times. The topic is emotional. What did you notice? Did you notice that you swallowed? Was there something going on with that? So I may ask a body question. I may ask, hey, as we've been talking this conversation, there's this theme of this, it's come up a few times. What's your thoughts around that? Like, oh, I didn't notice that theme or I didn't notice I did that. So journaling gets you in this practice of asking questions. So moving from statements to questions. So so many times in life, I'll go back to my 17-year-old driving around the corner with the music blasting. I can make a statement, I can't believe he's doing this. Again, I've told him several times and now because of that, I'm gonna go down there and yell at him. Or I can say like, ooh, I wonder what's going on, how often does he do it, where did he just leave the gym, is somebody else or is he trying to, I don't know, like what's going on, let's go explore. So we're actually moving from judgment to curiosity. And so what helps with moving from judgment to curiosity is moving from statements, making statements, whether it's an individual showing up late, whether it's somebody not meeting an expectation. And that's where conflict essentially comes in on expectations, making statements to being curious. And so curiosity shows up in asking questions. And so in journaling, you start practicing the art of asking questions and you start with yourself. Once again, everything starts with you. So the art of asking questions, know why questions. And this is the biggest thing out there because I know some folks out there have made why and they're the five why's and all these why's have nothing against any of that. How I look at that is it is a great start. So if you're like, hey, I'm really, I'm thinking about doing jiu-jitsu, awesome. You show up, you do some stuff, you get a white belt and then over time, you get stripes and then you start doing other things. That's where why questions fall in. Like I want to start asking questions. Hey, why questions? Sure, that's a great like white belt place to start. But now if you want to like continue and develop this art, we actually move away from why questions. There's research on actually diving into and constantly asking why question creates a negative feedback loop. So we move from why questions to what questions? Once again, which takes time and practice. So even for me, it's simple in language where I'm like, oh, why just in a conversation? And now I've done it so many times why I have to reframe it to a what? And it becomes difficult because now you're moving sentences around to form it. So it takes a lot of practice and then you notice because what is a knowledge question? What has motivated both of you to continue this podcast for this long? Vice, why have you continued this podcast for so long? And so the other thing that why questions do is it tends to put people on the defensive. A.J., why'd you ask me to come on your podcast? A.J., what about me led you to asking me about asking me on your podcast? So it's a different, so just that first word reframes how the individual receives it. And so same thing for yourself. So if I'm sitting there journaling, you know, why did I do this? Oh, because you're a loser. Well, why did you do this? So you can really create a self-spin up even in your own journaling. So know why questions. Stream of consciousness is the easiest way to start. So just sit down, pick a place, just like any other goal. I wanna work out, you know, probably you're probably not gonna start out working out for an hour. With journaling, I'll ask clients, you know, what can you commit to? Oh, I can commit to 20 minutes, you know, every morning or every evening. I'll go, awesome. How about five minutes? And I'll just, I'll slash it because with goals, you have to calibrate new goals. There's a calibration in there. And so I'll slash it because all I want them to do is start doing it and see the value in it and get the repetitions in the practice. And then I'll create a window. How about three to five minutes? And they're like, yeah. I'm like, is that doable? They're like, oh yeah, it's totally doable. And even with that, that still takes, there's a week they'll come back, nod and journal, and then I hold them accountable. And then they start journaling a couple of times and then it starts growing and expanding. And then they start seeing the utility value and they start going through and like, oh wow. And now it prompts our conversations as well. So we'll start talking about the things that comes up in their journaling. And they're like, hey, I noticed I keep going back to this one event every time I sit down to journal or every time I go to journal, I avoid it. I'll even ask questions about that because they're now thinking about certain things when they go to journal, which is once again, we're just extracting information and helping them dive into themselves. So the key to journaling is you start the art of asking questions and you learn how to really excavate your own inner wisdom.