"One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on their goals."

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Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

— Wilford Woodruff