Written to me, NOTE TO SELF to call myself out, to pull myself out of low self-estimation and pessimism, those moods that I get in from time to time. 

That is the beauty of the journal – you are talking to YOU. you can teach you…

You can pull yourself out and build yourself up.  Rebuild yourself.

This is and always should be one of the prime intentions of writing in your journal or elsewhere.

Voiced much of that into my NOTE TO SELF text stream driving to Sonoma County yesterday from Vacaville to get the kids.

10:52 working kind of, looking for businesses to drop in on when I get back.  Marin County.  Making myself obsess over small business, everything it involves and entrails.  A documentary approach.  Now around me, only journals and laptops, my phones, one pen and an empty Peet’s cup.

Old note in phone, one from 2017, “Not speaking for you, speaking with you… with truth and electric passion.” The note is just titled “Biz notes”, but I think I know why I typed it into my phone.  Date on note, 12/26/17.