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Morning Pages & Journaling!
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This channel's about journaling, morning pages, creativity, reflection and harnessing the power of the written word to achieve personal growth.
My name's Martin Sketchley. I'm a published novelist, writer, editor and Royal Literary Fund Fellow with 30 years' experience across business, fiction, other non-fiction, scriptwriting and education.
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My name's Martin Sketchley. I'm a published novelist, writer, editor and Royal Literary Fund Fellow with 30 years' experience across business, fiction, other non-fiction, scriptwriting and education.
🎓 Community and courses coming soon! Be the first to know: exciting-speaker-2203.ck.page/e443dc2e6e
🛒 Shop: www.craft.do/s/te9ZEiQQSCgOBI
🤝 Community: www.youtube.com/@sketchley/community
📩 Business: msketchley67@gmail.com
🌐 Web: martinsketchley.com/
🔗 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/martin-sketchley-77a182119/
#journaling #morningpages #writingtips #writingexercises #productivity
#writingforwellbeing #mentalhealth #personalgrowth #selfawareness #creativity
Three Tips to make the most of journaling or morning pages! #morningpages #journaling #mindfulness
Journaling is a powerful tool for self-reflection, creativity, and personal growth. In this video, I share three key tips to help you get the most out of your journaling practice, whether you’re a seasoned writer or just starting out.
**Tip 1: Write for Yourself**
Your journal is your private space, free from judgement. I'll explain why it's crucial to let go of the fear that someone might read your entries and how to overcome the habit of self-censorship.
**Tip 2: Review and Expand**
Morning pages can hold unexpected gems of wisdom. Learn how to spot these insights and develop them further by reviewing and expanding upon your notes. I’ll show you a simple technique to capture these valuable thoughts without disrupting your writing flow.
**Tip 3: Look for Patterns**
Repetition in your journaling can reveal deeper truths. I discuss how to identify recurring themes and what they might be telling you about your thoughts, feelings, or even life decisions.
**The Challenge:**
I’m also throwing down a challenge for you! Write morning pages every day for a week, mark the important bits, and then review them at the end of the week. What patterns will you discover?
Join me on this journey to deepen your journaling practice and unlock new levels of self-awareness. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share your experiences in the comments!
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**Tip 1: Write for Yourself**
Your journal is your private space, free from judgement. I'll explain why it's crucial to let go of the fear that someone might read your entries and how to overcome the habit of self-censorship.
**Tip 2: Review and Expand**
Morning pages can hold unexpected gems of wisdom. Learn how to spot these insights and develop them further by reviewing and expanding upon your notes. I’ll show you a simple technique to capture these valuable thoughts without disrupting your writing flow.
**Tip 3: Look for Patterns**
Repetition in your journaling can reveal deeper truths. I discuss how to identify recurring themes and what they might be telling you about your thoughts, feelings, or even life decisions.
**The Challenge:**
I’m also throwing down a challenge for you! Write morning pages every day for a week, mark the important bits, and then review them at the end of the week. What patterns will you discover?
Join me on this journey to deepen your journaling practice and unlock new levels of self-awareness. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share your experiences in the comments!
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I'm Martin Sketchley, a creative content designer and strategist who turns complex, often vague ideas into simple, engaging content. I work with startups and small businesses to produce exciting visual storytelling.
Want complex concepts explained in cool, simple, engaging ways? Looking for advice on content strategy? Need guidance and direction for personal development? I can help. There's no one-size-fits-all here: it's all about you 🫵.
🔥 Be the first to know: exciting-speaker-2203.ck.page/e443dc2e6e
🛒 Visit the shop: www.craft.do/s/te9ZEiQQSCgOBI
🤝 Community: www.youtube.com/@sketchley/community
📩 Business: msketchley67@gmail.com
🌐 Web: martinsketchley.com/
🔗 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/martin-sketchley-77a182119/
#creativity #morningpages #creativewriting #mentalhealth #journaling #productivity #mindfulness #mentalhealth #selfimprovement #personal development
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I Burned My Morning Pages! 🔥
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A Warning About Writing Morning Pages!
I absolutely loved your video. So re-affirming. I have done morning pages for years. It’s so freeing! Thanks for sharing!
How did no one comment on "I'm Spartacus" ? LOL
No, I'm Spartacus!
Hello Martin! I missed your newer vids even though I had subscribed! Ive some catching up to do! When i 1st subscribed I was going to give the MPs a go (again, after many years). In my typical style i gave up after a few days! But........I did end up doing something that i was quite proud of, following that recent attempt at MPs. I was so uncomfortable with my writing that i just had to do something to try sort it out. Writing with any speed meant it was just an awful scrawl. I know that shouldnt matter for that exercise, but it really bothered me! I learned a type of cursive at primary school but switched to print. It must have been cooler to write in print! I decided to go back to cursive. I thought it might be easier (eventually) to write a little faster and more legibly if writing in cursive. I soon found out how much i had forgotten about writing in cursive! I had to buy a book to relearn. For nearly 2 months i practiced each day. Sometimes only for 10 mins sometimes an hour. It was fun to listen to a podcast and practice wrting the words spoken. I have a couple of journals now that read as a lot of nonsense! 😁 cause they are only fragments of sentences. But my cursive looks way better now than when i started out relearning and im much happier with my hand writing. So it might be time now to reattempt the MPs!
That's great! Even if you don't return to or stick with morning pages, something good has come out of it. Well done!
This changed my day 💫
In a good way, I hope!
I just got an idea before I even watch your video: I could also do a few morning pages where I draw something instead of just writing so I will give that a try since I like to doodle! But the pages so far have helped me clear out all the junk that I probably didn't express on the outside and I felt so much better, and I also realized that I whatever I have been carrying emotionally, I was able to acknowledge it and release it.
That's a great idea. I think someone else asked the same thing. I think whatever works for you is fine. Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment 🙏
Spot on😊 fear of the written voyeur .someone read my teenage diary without permission. Took years to regain perspective about that . Love the idea about markers , highlight perhaps adds depth for me . Trust your away from home job is going well. ❤
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Good stuff, Martin. Thanks for sharing. I like the idea of adding a little symbol on the page's margin to signal something useful to come back to!
Thank you! Haven't forgotten the idea you inspired for a video... 😉
@@sketchley looking forward to it! :D
Oh no. I couldn’t bear to watch. I could feel the book’s pain. I’m sad now.
I understand. But it is just a book! 😊
I was only yelling that the signatures should be taken apart. Destruction? No.. I was licking my chops at the prospect of watching a complete disassembly. I want to try this and turn the cover into a refillable notebook using the liberated signatures from the book block, and eventually whatever else I can get my inky fingers on paperwise. I have a leuchtturm with my name embossed, so I refuse to ever let that go. I've liberated several book covers for repurposing but I would like to know.. do I need a dry run with another leuchtturm before tackling mine..? tfs.. really appreciated this.
I actually found it quite easy. There was some paper left on the notebook binding, but that could be removed. I'd say just be careful to not cut the strings in the binding or the pages might fall apart. The cover came off pretty cleanly.
I’m learning many haven’t read these✨thank you for this
Glad you enjoyed it 🙏
This can be the case with Meditation as well
I guess so. Hadn't thought of that. I usually fall asleep!
I wrote morning pages for a while and I was going through a difficult time in my life, I was depressed and I found that writing morning pages was making me feel worse, not better so I stopped. I think I will start writing them again.
Good that you stopped if you felt they weren't working for you at the time. It's important to monitor how you're feeling, and if you're focussing on negative aspects of your life, it's OK to steer these pages towards positive affirmations. Let me know how you get on. 🙏
My handwriting is quite small and so I struggle to fill 3 pages. I ended up moving to a Standard size notebook and that helped me 🫢 Am I cheating? 😅
Standard size as in A5? I don't think so. I'm going to make a video about this, because it crops up a lot!
@@sketchley no, Standard is a size in its own right, it’s A5 tall but narrower - think Traveler’s Notebooks 🙂
@@eleanor.shadow Ah I see - I didn't know that! Funny you should say that, but I've found the Traveler's Notebook format is ideal for the evening check-in...
@@sketchley isn’t it so interesting how paper formats influence our writing? 🤓
I can't put myself in the mindset of someone who doesn't know know what to write in a "write what's in your mind" situation like this. Do their thoughts completely stop? I doubt it, so why don't they write what they're thinking? "I'm not really sure what else to talk about?" "I've run out of ideas" "What to say? What to say? What to say?" If I ever get stuck my filler phrase will probably be "doo be doo be doo ba doo be doo be doo ba" which is the Doofenshmirt's tune from Phineas and Ferb
Allow your deepest desires and dreams appear on the page.
Lol, finished within 45 minutes of waking 😂 it took me over an hour when I tried. I wrote on letter sized paper. I thought the recommendation was to write on A4 paper?
When I was introduced to it the person was using A5; lots of people use A5. Some people use A4 as I do at the moment, but I'll go back to B5. I'll make a video about this...
But you have to think before your pen makes a mark, how else can I do it without just making swirls 🤔
I know what you mean. And I do pause sometimes. You kind of have to just let what's in your mind flow on to the page without thinking. Perhaps without "steering" may be more useful. Just follow the writing. Does that help?
@@sketchley yes it does, thankyou. I kind of started this ritual on my own, using my tablet this morning, and then heard of morning pages. I've ordered the artists way and I dug out an empty (lovely empty pages, yum 😋) notebook earlier to begin writing in a physical journal tomorrow. Thanks for your advice 👍
@@BeeLZBeeb Fabulous! Let me know how you get on!
I know this was posted 9 months ago but this is why I have limited myself 2-3 tasks in each category
Posted nine months ago or nine years ago, doesn't matter 😀 Self-inflicted overwhelm is commonplace...
What if you cant write, but can type, is there any benifit to doing morning pages?
If there is a physical reason why you can't write by hand then type by all means. I do believe writing by hand gives us greater connection, then typing is better than not doing it at all, because you'll still tap into the unconscious mind if you do it at the right time.
Dear Martin, I highly enjoy the content of your video’s, one thing I would like to ask you though: why do you add these static snippets to your video? I have a visual impairment and this makes it perhaps more straining to deal with these kind of static elements, (they make me startle, almost jump out of my skin when they come, perhaps also because of the soundbites that accompany them). For me watching your video’s would be a more comfortable experience if those were not in there. The multiple camera angles in this particular video also make it harder for me to focus on the message you want to share. Is there a reason why you put in these aspects in your video’s? Is it to spice them up or does it help others to focus better perhaps? Would love to hear your perspective on this! Kind regards and keep sharing your valuable insights!
Hi, thank you for your comment; I'm sorry you find the static uncomfortable. In this video this effect is used to differentiate between sections, especially between the first sepia flash forward to what comes later. The two camera angles are used to maintain interest and hide cuts: sometimes I may pause, think, fluff a line or simply decide during the edit that there's something I don't want to include after all; cutting to the second camera hides these changes without ruining the flow. I'll bear your comments in mind for future videos.
@@sketchley Dear Martin, thank you so much for your explanation, it helps me understand your choices.
This advice was brilliant 👏 thanks 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, Martin! You've given me a lot to consider. In particular, yes - the subconscious, that is what I am deliberately trying to tap. As Hawke says, powerful and true. You said to allow the mind to open up, write the thoughts without constraint. As I reflect on that, I think what I am seeing is fear. Powerful and true can be scary, and I feel the fear makes me shy away and shut my journal. There is a saying among software engineers, of which I am one, that "premature optimization is the root of all evil." I feel like that is what I am doing in those situations - there is an editor of the thought between my brain and the hand which is trying to fix/censor the thought before it sees the light of day. This is also on point with one of your first comments - about approaching the MPs as a writer, trying to fill the pages with writing -- instead of the thoughts. Tomorrow, I will try to approach with some observational perspective and try some positive affirmations. Thanks!
How's it going? Your insight above is telling. Allow yourself to be free.
@@sketchley Hey Martin, thanks for checking in. It had been on my mind to update you on this video. My morning pages are going very well now, very satisfying. I think that in the end it was the very first thing you said - asking if I was approaching it as a writing exercise. I defintely am trying to tap my unconscious and my creativity and write, and I have been using morning pages to help me with that. I had fallen into trying to be "efficient" and doing two things at once: morning pages and writing. I think what I said before about the fear - I think that is still true, but less on the morning page side of things and more on the writing side. You know, if you want to write meaningful things I think you have to write Meaningful Things - which can be scary. So now, my morning page sessions are - I think - more as intended. Just about the flow of routing thoughts to paper via hand and arm. When I want to do some writing, that is a separate thing. Thanks again!
Write without fear, Joe. Think about where the fear comes from. The potential for criticism? Insecurity? Write as if no one will ever read it.
+1 to unlearn the things that you have learned. Explore your pages as a scientist. There are no mistakes... just try and see what happens.
We are so constrained by what we have learned, how we have been programmed, that we don't even realise it's happened or affects us every moment of every day.
When I write Morning Pages, and that's been a while. I just write, it's mumbo jumbo mostly. Sometimes, something helpful will come out, but mostly not. I just write for three pages A5. I don't even think about what page I'm on, just write. It usually takes 20 to 30 minutes. But it relaxes me. I should start again with what's going on in the world at the moment.
Morning pages certainly help us to process things.
Do you need page 3. If your hand writing was larger or smaller paper .. are we stuck on the number 3 . Do the 2 pages for a while , let yourself process and watch your internal conversation . If you need 3, it will come out naturally . A forced routine versus the joy of emptying . So many questions ❤😊
I'm going to make a video on this subject.
I just write the alphabet when I get stuck
And when you do that do you find something crops up to write when you reach a certain letter?
Thanks for this. I just found you by accident and am intrigued and impressed! New subscriber and looking forward to more.
Thank you. Look out for more, and if you have any questions or comments, don't be shy! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment 🙏
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I'm sorry, but this is terrible to watch. I'm a huge sketchbook fan, and it kind of physically hurts to watch this. I mean it's your sketchbook and you do whatever you want to do with them, but it just looks like a waste of material. I'm sure there would be other options than destroying a new sketchbook. But again, it's your stuff, so you can do what you want.
I take your point. Think of it as customisation. As it was, it didn't suit my needs, so I adapted it.
@@sketchley Yeah, I understand that. It's a little unconventional way, but if the result works for you, then it serves the purpuse.
@@demeternati_art8109 I may well try a slimmer one some time: they have soft covers.
Listened to this book twice now, so good!
He talks great sense.
I’d love to know what type of “nuggets” you take from your morning pages - not the private specifics, just the general insights. I stopped writing mine a few months ago because it took me a really long time to fill in 3 pages and I needed that extra time 😅 I didn’t feel I was gaining much from them! Having said this, I’m currently listening to The Artist’s Way and might change my mind and go back to them…
Leave it with me - I'll make a video answering this just for you... 👍
@@sketchley thanks! I’ll look out for it 🙂
Hi! I've been writing morning pages for over two weeks but the only issue that I've found is that it takes me over 40 minutes to finish writing my 3 pages. (I use A5 as well) I wonder if that's a problem and I just should write 20-25 minutes. Great video by the way!
That's great that you've started! Just keep going. It can be difficult at first. Check out my latest video: How to Start Morning Pages and Boost Your Creativity ua-cam.com/video/yJkcDmAwUGI/v-deo.html
Hi Martin! It's been half a year since I came across your UA-cam channel and I have been writing Morning Pages ever since. Actually, I had been writing them even before that and I had stopped it for some time, but I got inspired again after coming across your channel six months ago, and decided to restart this habit. Although it doesn't really bring a lot of difference to my life, I got to see some instances where my mind was trying to break its own tedium whenever my writing got repetitive, and I could get glimpses of untapped creativity within myself. The only thing is, I'm not able to make that window open for long. Is there some way I could achieve that? My writing gets too repetitive and it is at times, quite demotivating. And I don't mean I'm trying to write some meaningful story. I know that Morning Pages is just about naked stream of consciousness writing. It's just that my thoughts get too repetitive and I end up filling pages with "I don't have anything else to say/write", "What else?" etc. That makes me demoralised and uninspired. What can I do to break this pattern and make the most out of this practice?
Hi, Abhilash. Thanks for the comment, and for supporting the channel. I've noted your comment and will come back to you soon - probably in the form of a video! Many thanks 🙏
I think the key for me to truly “write anything that comes to mind” is knowing that no one will EVER read these pages. So, after every session, I burn or shred the pages. Knowing that I’ll destroy these pages when I am finished TOTALLY frees me to write everything and anything.
Good idea if that works for you. I tend to keep mine, but there's no real reason to. I have told my wife to not look in them if anything should happen to me.
I’ve been doing morning pages for a couple of years. Now, if I skip a few days I really miss it! This practice has been a lifesaver to my mental health!!
Great to read! Keep going! Let me know if you want me to cover anything in particular.
Any tips for getting over the "hump"? For me this is starting page 3. Pages 1 & 2 are easy - I get my mind all cleared out, but then when the well of minutia dries up, it's just too easy for me to stop. I know from my experience that most of the time it's the page 3 stuff that ends up having the juicy bits & interesting thoughts. But so often I just stop.
Hi Joe. Thanks for the query! It's an interesting one 🤔. I'll record a video this week and try to provide some pointers...
Hey, Joe! Thanks for the question: my response goes live on Sunday, 15:00 BST (10:00 EDT). I hope it helps, and thanks for the inspiration 🙏
@@sketchley Thanks! I am looking forward to it!
I actually miss doing morning pages. They honestly do help.Mornings are hard, more than a few medical problems plus anxiety got in the way. I became too rigid with the routine. It didn't even cross my mind to mold the practice into something that would work better for me. Huge thanks from a chronic over thinker that for some reason needed permission to hack the system 😂 I'm in Australia so we're heading into our winter, cant think of a better time to start again.😊
Seems like a plan. Customisation is key, I think. Good luck! Let me know how you get on.
It has been quite a while since I completed Morning Pages. I often think of restarting, but my writing project may get in the way. I want to write early in the morning. I plan to reduce my work hours later in the year, which will help. Journalling once a week sounds like the way to go and would be perfect for early Saturday mornings.
Yeah. I think I overdid it, to be honest. There's a balance to be had.
❤ 👍
Ta, bab! ("Bab" is a Birmingham colloquialism for "friend"...)
1. Morning pages not found easy 2. Technique for writing morning pages
There's a new video tomorrow at 3pm gmt that might help you.
Thanks, ive found that journalling can get me worked up and this is the first ive understood why. Possibly just dwelling and reinforcing negativity instead of neutralising it
It is a possibility. Especially if you journal before going to sleep. In this case steer yourself towards the positive. Try gratitude journaling. Just writing down all the things in life you're grateful for, then on a daily basis just a few things from the day. Doesn't have to be much, and they don't have to be big things.
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The sound of the pages turning is soooooooooooo ASMR
I had to look that up!
Thank you so much.. I'm watching this the day after I've ran my 2nd ever workshop.. I asked for feedback and got some very helpful observations but delivered very bluntly.. I'm definitely a very thick skinned person.. life and age contributes to that I think 🤔.. I've been doing a lot of soul searching lately and awhile ago you inadvertently got me onto gratitude journaling.. I can guarantee that has been 100% game changer for me.. gratitude has sneaked into my psyche and completely changed my whole perception.. the bluntness of the comment I received would of definitely shaken my ego and confidence before and I would of probably given up.. so sorry for the long reply but just wanted to thank you sir and let you know that your channel does reach people, probably more than you expect 😊
Thank you for such a lovely and motivational message. I'm glad you found the video useful! Do keep going!
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Yea im hopeless at proofreading, hope this helps!
Take your time. Detach yourself from the "content". Look. At. Every. Word. Individually. Good luck!
@@sketchleyi was looking to oroof read while in exam time is expensive
Thank you for sharing your tips on micro-journaling. I was curious about how it works and what to do. When I get ideas I usually write them down to look at later. I used to journal as an update on my daily or weekly life, so a diary. Which I still do but not as often. I want to give this a shot when I take breaks from social media and see what changes for myself.
Good luck with it! Let me know how you get on. I now write a reflection on the days most days. Look out for a video on that soon.
@@sketchley Thanks. Oh cool, sounds good. I will watch for that video.
Ty for this video, it was entertaining and full of info. I will do this soon, love the accent
Thanks for the comment 🙏 Good luck! Let me know how you get on...
@@sketchley I actually heard of this concept from Rainn Wilson's podcast called soul boom. Specifically an episode he did with comedian Bobby Lee. You should check it out if you Into that sort of thing.
That is savage. Haha. I love it.
Thanks! 🙏
Its moleskine not molskin. Read it in Italian
Thanks for pointing this out.
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Great comment!