Here’s Why You Should Keep A Success Diary

Hello and welcome back to a new episode of the list building lifestyle. Dr. Film grows here, if you don’t want to be like most of the parents who come to my show asking for help, because their one sweet and loving kids have spiraled out of control and somehow turned into angry raging ungrateful teenagers. And one thing you need to do is to really be thoughtful about the way you raise them. If you’re wondering why the heck I am here telling you this, then don’t worry. It’s not that Igors needs my help. And anyway, he seems to be doing just great with his two little ones. In fact, I’m really happy to be here today to introduce this episode because it discusses a great parenting strategy that I wish more parents adopted with their kids. I won’t reveal much more. Instead, I’ll let her tell you all about his success diary method, and how you too can use it with your kids or even for yourself and Joey.

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I actually started my success diary only when I was 18 or so when it was very difficult to do because of it. Because if you think about it, how many of us grew up being told we’re good, or that we’re doing a great job every single day. I don’t know why too many people like that. And certainly it wasn’t me. The only time I was being told I was doing well or that I was a good boy is when I brought some maybe some good marks home or maybe I excelled in some kind of tournament or something which I actually never really did. I never really won anything. Like my parents pretty much just expected me to Excel. So it was kind of like an expectation, but there was never really a lot of encouragement along the way. And by the way, a distinction that if any of you want to be doing a success diary with yourselves or with your children, is that the success doesn’t mean a win. Success is effort. Right? So it’s another thing that I want to instill in my kids that I’m putting in an effort, attempting a new thing, showing initiative, attempting to problem solve things like that, like that is a success to me. In other words, you know, if you participate in a competition and you don’t win, you can still, you know, recognize tons of successes from this competition for yourself by simply focusing on your own behavior. I started doing it with my daughter a few years back where I’ve made her list all the successes for the day before bed. So literally in bed, I would give her my phone, open google docs on my phone or computer and have her be like Okay, did you eat broccoli today? Okay, put that in a broccoli? Did you do your homework today? Okay, great. Did homework, read it in one chapter, one page of a book perfectly, memorized a great poem, played a video game perfectly? So anything that’s either a new thing, she’s tried a fun thing she did, or a good thing she did or something, it shows discipline or initiative or problem solving. So you kind of throw all of that in kind of like a big salad, where the point is for the child to start seeing that the child is producing results or successes when I call them successes, although one friend of mine actually told me not to do it, because then I’m conditioning them that they have to be successful. Which I guess there’s some arguments to that, but I kind of stuck to the word successes. And now my daughter has 10,308 80 Something successes that’s in the span of like three or four years. And she’s very proud of herself. She actually received an iPhone for her 10,000 success anniversary. So I started doing that with my son this past week, the past few days when he’s four. And we started doing that. And we’re now at 26 or 27 successes. And what’s funny is that the first day he didn’t want to do it. I was like why don’t you want to do it and he’s like, it’s gonna take too long. You know, it’s gonna take forever to do and we did it the first day he had 10 successes the next day had 11 successes, so we wouldn’t do things like that. Had your shoelaces or something, you know, like, got dressed on your own or whatever you don’t put on your socks. Awesome. Everything is a success. And, yesterday, we were doing it and he only had five, basically, because it was a Sunday. So he didn’t go to kindergarten. And you know, there was not much activity, just we had some fun, we did some things. And it’s also like a memory exercise too, if you think about it, because I’m actually making him remember what happened today. And that’s he’s having some challenges with that. So trying to help him with the memory part. But anyway, my point is that there were five successes for Sunday. And so he now has 26. And he’s like, what, why? Just five, I want more successes, you know, so he’s like already playing this game where it’s like, I want more successes. I’m really proud of that because as a father, I really want to instill the right habits the right mindset, the right self-image in my kids, and I believe success diary has been very, very important in that because my daughter is she she’s she seems to have been a lot more confident in the last 12 months or so compared to where she’s been maybe even two three years ago. Thank you for listening to the list building lifestyle, get access to the previous episodes transcript of today’s show, as well as other exclusive content at listbuildinglifestyleshow.com. Also remember to claim your free copy of my bestselling book at www.igorsbook.com. It explains how I made millions with list building starting from scratch. Plus, I’ll give you $3,000 worth of free bonuses, including my best landing page templates, email, swipe files, and traffic blueprints. Go to www.igorsbook.com. Now to claim your free package