Journaling is a great way to reflect on daily experiences, relationships, and personal values and can help you get in better touch with your thoughts and feelings. Additionally, it can lead to a greater sense of inner peace.
Sometimes, writing about big emotions you have felt during the day is easier than sharing them out loud.
journal Prompts
The journal prompts below can help you reflect on big ideas or situations from your day, which can be helpful when you:
- want to create better writing habits but don’t know where to start.
- have conflicting thoughts to sort through.
- feel as if you could write all day and want help narrowing your focus
Give these prompts a try:
- What do you value most in relationships (trust, respect, sense of humor, etc.)?
- What part of your workday do you most enjoy?
- What does your work teach you?
- Does your work drain or overwhelm you? Why? Is this something you can change?
- What values do you consider most important in life (honesty, justice, altruism, loyalty, etc.)? How do your actions align with those values?
- List three personal beliefs that you’re willing to reconsider or further explore.
- What three important things have you learned from previous relationships?
- What parts of daily life cause stress, frustration, or sadness? What can you do to change those experiences?
- What do you fear most? Have your fears changed throughout life?
- Which emotions do you find hardest to accept (guilt, anger, disappointment, etc.)? How do you handle these emotions?
- What boundaries could you set in your relationships to safeguard your own well-being?
- Describe one or two significant life events that helped shape you into who you are today.
- What do you appreciate most about your personality? What aspects do you find harder to accept?
- What does love mean to you? How do you recognize it in a relationship?
- What three things would you most like others (loved ones, potential friends and partners, professional acquaintances, etc.) to know about you?
- What three ordinary things bring you the most joy?
- What are three things working well in your current relationship? What are three things that could be better?
- What place makes you feel most peaceful? Describe that place using all five senses.
- Identify one area where you’d like to improve. Then, list three specific actions you can take to create that change.
- What three things would you share with your teenage self? What three questions would you want to ask an older version of yourself?