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I have been using Hal Elrod’s The Miracle Morning Journal with excellent results for the past three years. This Christmas I bumped into Dominik Spenst’s The 6-Minute Diary, and I have been using it for just one week. I can hardly believe it, but it’s even better than The Miracle Morning!I love The Miracle Morning - I will continue to use it and to recommend it every time I can, because I know how good it is.But The 6-Minute Diary is in a different plane – deeper, wiser, more inspiring and revealing. The prompts are so well thought-out that in just the space of a week I have made two discoveries that completely reframed important aspects of my productivity and my relationships. The 6-Minute Diary is also much more pleasant to work with -and to look at- than The Miracle Morning – much as I love it, The Miracle Morning has all the charms of an accountant’s spread sheet (and they haven’t bothered to improve the layout in years) whereas The 6-Minute Diary has been crafted and designed with an artist’s sensibility. Am I being superficial by pointing out such things? I don't think so. This is a tool you will be using every single good or bad, happy or sad day of the year, so it only helps that it is a beauty to open and look at. I know the beautiful pages make me more thoughtful and considerate when I write in them…i.e. they nudge me to think harder before I spoil their pristine surface. Is it only me? If you had to scribble a note, however short and simple, would it make any difference if you were writing on the corner of the back page of yesterday’s newspaper or on a sheet of lovingly prepared vellum? This is what I mean – you’d force yourself to think a bit deeper before you spoiled the page. And that only helps when reflection is the whole point of the exercise.I have read hundreds of Self-Help books, and taken too many courses. I have certificates on NLP, Mindfulness and Erikssonian Hypnosis, read and written extensively on Psychoanalisis, Theory of Knowledge and CBT. And this is why I can say that the 64-page introductory section that Dominik Spenst has prepared for The 6-Minute Diary –which you could skip, but I would urge you to read attentively- is the briefest, more engagingly written and scientifically supported introduction to the topics of Positive Psychology, Habits and Self-Reflection anywhere. I was already impressed by this when a few days after I bought the Diary, Mr Spenst sent me via email a very pretty and useful pdf titled The Golden Morning Routine, which he personally sends to all customers, and which comprises five scientific arguments for the beneficial effect of a morning routine, as well as examples of the morning routines of 25 successful people, from politicians and other pop stars to Marcus Aurelius, Stephen Covey and Immanuel Kant.The 6-Minute Diary promises to be “a priceless journey into the most exciting and emotional realms of your own memory” and to allow you to “follow the footsteps of your personal evolution”(p.15). I believe it will deliver. Having only used it for a week, I’m already looking forward to more discoveries with The 6-Minute Diary as my companion.

I bought one of these when I felt really negative and I felt like it completely improved my outlook on life. The book and page quality is luxurious and quite thick. You have enough prompts in there to really make you think, and it has some lovely quotes along the way. You have daily pages to complete with positives to look out throughout your day, then you also have 4 weekly or monthly pages to look at as well. there isn’t loads of writing space but I think that’s good, sometimes if you have too much writing to complete it can put you off a little bit. It’s about 6 months worth of I remember correctly so the value for money is really good.

The media could not be loaded. I absolutely love it. Today (15/3/25) is my 3rd day and I really look forward to filling it out. It makes you think of what you already have in your life. I brought it because I overthink, get anxious and get stressed. The quotes each day are lovely, everything is just perfect. The feel of it, the quality of the paper used. It motivates you to use it. The questions are the same each day, which I didn't think I'd like, but actually, I do, as yesterday I tended to be thinking about them. The information beforehand is rather useful too. I do really recommend this ❤️

This diary is simply gorgeous. The amount of time, effort, love, thought, and knowledge that has gone into it outstanding. The author really cares about the statistics and process about living a happier life and creating positive habits. Only downside for me would be that beginning NOVEL… Yeesh. It’s so long. 70+ pages long to be exact. I read all of it as it states in the diary to read it all as it will be helpful in the long run and will help you get the best use out of the diary - I bought another one of these as a gift for somebody and they told me they didn’t read it due to how long it was, which is a shame as I feel they won’t get the same benefits as I will hopefully get from it having read it all. I feel it has far too much information and this could be cut down MASSIVELY. It was hard not to just simply skip it all and get straight to the morning and evening routine. Sadly, for this reason, I wouldn’t buy this diary again as a gift.

I thought the introduction was too long and found I was losing concentration, I just wanted to get on with starting the diary.Once I did I found I enjoyed doing the morning and evening entries, after a while I started to look forward filling it in. It encouraged me to see the small enjoyable things that happened during each day that I hadn’t appreciated fully before. I began to see the positives of the day rather than concentrate on the negatives.The Good Deed Today made me look for things I could do to help people during my day, just small things often, but they made a difference.Sometimes I couldn’t immediately think of things for the 5 Weekly Questions so left parts blank, I always found that during the next couple of days something would come into my head and I was able to fill in all the questions.It’s made me think of things in my life that I’d forgotten about, particularly in my childhood. It’s made me value my family and friends and appreciate the small things in life. I truly believe that happiness comes from within, it’s our attitude to life that matters and how we respond to the things that will inevitably happen in all our lives as we pass through.I would urge anybody to buy this diary, it’s of good quality, well set out and a pleasure to use.

I was feeling uncharacteristically low and decided to try journalling. Bought this after reading reviews and it’s no exaggeration to say it’s changed my life for the better. The prompts are carefully designed to train your brain to focus on the positives and small wins. I’m happier and more motivated and have just finished my first 6 Minute Diary and started a new one!