Join Other Elite College Freshman Journaling To Grow Their Emotional Centeredness, Self-Understanding, And Purpose In College

🤔What Is Conscious College?

Conscious College is a YouTube channel & Newsletter combo that helps Elite College Freshmen upgrade their journaling.

I’ve been journaling for six years, with 1,500+ journal entry's, but I’ve only been growing from journaling for three.

For the first half of my journaling life, I didn’t realize there were four levels to journaling—I was stuck at level one, simply recapping my day.

Back in high school, I was a self-improvement-obsessed, insecure junior trying to find stability in a life full of imposter syndrome, comparison, and calorie counting. Journaling seemed like a lifeline. And at first, it was.

Every night at my cherry-wood desk, I wrote about my day. Clickity-clack, feelings in, stress out. Slowly, patterns emerged: comparison, toxic productivity, fear. Awareness seeped in like sunrise over a sleepy town.

But when freshman year at Cornell hit, everything collapsed. The workload slammed me like alcohol at your first frat party. Between studying, friendships, and content creation, journaling felt like a distraction. And when I did sit down to write, the old way didn’t work anymore. Level-one journaling couldn’t keep up with level-five chaos.

One night I stared at my empty entry for an hour. Nothing came. Part of it was I didn't know what to write about, and part of it was the fear of what would come if I did write. I sensed a deeper question underneath the silence:

Is there more to journaling than this?

Three years later and I've:

• Created 1,000+ more journal entry's
• Made 600+ YouTube videos, podcasts, and newsletters
• Taught 500+ students journaling, notetaking and outdoor ed through six courses
• Talked to 50+ freshman about their relationship to journaling in college
• Worked with the world’s leading gamification consultancy, The Octalysis Group, to learn more about human motivation

Instead of just writing about my day (Level 1 journaling), I began writing how my emotions and thoughts were affecting me, and why they were affecting me that way (Level 2 journaling). I asked so what, and started using these insights to make career, relationship, and other college decisions (Level 3 journaling). And finally, I began journaling about the most powerful questions one can ask, Spiritual questions (Level 4 journaling).

I don't want you to fall for the same traps I did.

My goal with the Conscious College is to help you make the same journey as mine in a fraction of the time.

Here's how this newsletter works: you'll receive one live email for Conscious College every few weeks. These newsletters include two things:

1. A personal essay by me on journaling, spirituality, meta-learning, or gamification, as well as the YT video associated with it
2. A joke about peanuts 🥜. How did I become "the peanut guy?" I don't think we'll ever know

As a gift from me to you, you can join the newsletter by getting my Free College Freshmen Cosmic Journaling Kit (CJK), a gamified journaling system to grow your emotional centeredness, self-understanding, and purpose with 1,000+ journaling questions and 5+ templates in just 15 minutes a day.

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