Walt Hopkins’ Journaling
Passport is a practical yet inspiring guide to keeping a Journal, which can
become a lifelong, rewarding ‘habit’.



Walt’s sets of Seven Learnings come from the idea of Seven
Laws — which he first learned about in a wonderful book by Michael Phillips
called The Seven Laws of Money. He tells of the ancient Taoist tradition of
developing seven laws by starting at the centre and then moving through a
series of polarities to something that transcends the sequence.



Since Walt prefers Learnings instead of Laws, he uses the
Taoist process to develop Seven Learnings about whatever he is learning. This
Passport is a summary of what he has learned in the past 59 years of keeping a
Journal. These are not laws. These are learnings that may — or may not — work for
you as you write in your own Journal. Here are Walt’s Seven Learnings about
Journaling:



1. Write Now – 2. Write Regularly – 3. Write Irregularly –
4. Write What I Think – 5. Write How I Feel – 6. Go Beyond Writing – 7. Live to
Write