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c/journaling · by cactus_head@programming.dev · 28d

Anyone got any Journaling prompts?

I want to start Journaling but i am struggling where to start. It would help if i have some self-reflective questions that i can ask myself at the end of or/and at the begging of the day

Here some of my ideas

  • What are your To-Do Lists for the day?
  • Any significant dreams?
  • Had any astounding revelations?
  • How do you feel?
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Unattributed@feddit.online · 6 pts · 28d

If you look in !NaNoWriMo2@feddit.online you will find a bunch of prompts that were posted for our Journaling January event. Feel free to use any / all if them.

vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 5 pts · 28d

Five things you're grateful for.

hallettj@leminal.space · 4 pts · 27d

I sometimes follow suggestions I remember from Cortex' Theme System Journal. Those were daily reflections on something I'm looking forward to, and something I'm grateful for. I think it was looking forward for the morning entry, and grateful for the evening entry - but I'm not positive which way around it was.

But most of the time what I write is 1-3 things I want to get done during the day.

spinne@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 28d

  • What was the most interesting (or confounding) thing you saw today?

  • If you lived a picture-perfect life, what important value(s) do you hold that you would find it easier to express than you do now? What would expressing them look like?

  • What embarrassing thing that happened 10 years ago are you ready to let go of today?

SkaraBrae@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 28d

If I don't have anything specific I want to write about then I usually start with something mundane that I observed, or that I did. It often evolves into something profound. I have found that what I initially think is mundane is usually something that I have a programmed response to, or is an unchallenged preconception. And when it doesn't turn into something more, at least it's a record of my day-to-day.

Sometimes when I think I have nothing to write about I end up with 4-5 pages!

NormDeplume@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 28d

https://www.reflection.app/blog/daily-journal-prompts-365-questions

malle_yeno@pawb.social · 2 pts · 27d (1 reply)

My journalling is part of me letting go or managing worries, among other things. So if you're specifically doing a practice like worry time, then you could prompt for

  • what is making you feel anxious?
  • when you felt anxious, how did you know?
  • what are you thinking about when you're not busy?
  • is there anything you know you have to do but aren't doing?
  • do you know why you're not doing something?
  • what do you think would wrap things up perfectly, if perfect could just happen?
  • what do you wish for?
hallettj@leminal.space · 2 pts · 26d

Makes a lot of sense! This reminds me of the "mood logging" idea that I think comes from cognitive behavioral therapy

Libb@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 27d

I don't do prompts myself, but they have a list at DayOne

(disclaimer: I used to use this app but I've moved back to analog)

TAG@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 26d

I am using journaling to help combat depression and I pick one (or more) of the following, depending on what I did that day:

  • What are some things that I accomplished today? It does not have to be significant things, just things, no matter how small, even if it is just a step in a larger process.
  • Was there a time today that I felt a social connection, like a good conversation or a shared activity?
  • What is something I did that was fun?
  • What am I looking forward to?

Overall, I only spend a couple minutes each day on it, but the process of thinking about what to write down lets me end each day feeling good about something.