50 Things to Write About In a Journal: A List

Through the years, I’ve journaled about principally something that may cross one’s thoughts – traumas, internal and outer conflicts, hopes, plans, objectives, failures, choices and regrets, gratitude, and anger points. I’ve cried, laughed, and “not cared at all” whereas scribbling on the white web page. I’ve talked to God by way of my writing, and I’ve spoken to my previous and future self.

Journaling is my portal to a different world the place I discover understanding, and I’m the vessel by way of which concepts, emotions, and healings have discovered their approach out of… nicely, no matter place they’ve occupied.

Writing, whatever the topic, has at all times been an itch inside me. It’s one of the best ways to speak with others (like this weblog) and myself, and it’s the most approachable remedy I’ve ever had entry to.

And from the standpoint of somebody with a lot journaling expertise, I can actually say that it isn’t at all times as simple because it sounds.

No, I don’t at all times know what to jot down about. Once more, it’s an itch, but it surely takes some time to essentially discover the suitable spot so I can dig my nails into it (metaphorically talking).

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So, when somebody tells you that you just solely want a pen and paper, they’re solely telling you the primary half of the story.

You’ll ultimately really feel courageous sufficient to seize that pen and open the clean pocket book with out additional data of the consequence. However that’s an “after” course of.

It’s “after” you’ve already created a connection to the paper, the pen, and most significantly, that internal vessel that I consider lies inside you.

And till that “after” arrives, you may really feel scared, or a minimum of uncomfortable, of the method of writing. It comes naturally to me, however this may not be the case for you.

So, now you might be caught within the “before” stage, the place you want that additional push, the spark to ignite the hearth inside you, convey out the sentiments, and provide you with sufficient braveness to decrease that pen to the paper.

For this “before,” I’ve a listing of fifty journal prompts and issues to jot down about in a regular journal.

Warning: The primary few questions are easy, identical to a “warm-up” can be, however as you go down the listing, I can assure you there will probably be challenges.

Issues to Write About In a Journal

1. Describe your day.
2. What have been the perfect issues that occurred at present?
3. Describe your plans for the week/weekend.
4. Mirror on the week or the month.
5. Clarify your Why for the objectives you may have proper now.
6. Clarify why you made an vital latest resolution.
7. Write a letter to your future self.
8. Write a letter to your previous self.
9. Categorical gratitude for one thing good.
10. Speak about a favourite e-book or a film.
11. Record your favourite quotes that mirror your on a regular basis life proper now.
12. Speak about a favourite particular person in your life and why they’re so vital to you.
13. Method a previous trauma and write about it from the attitude of time.
14. Record moments you have been happy with your self.
15. Describe your greatest power and the way you suppose you’ve developed it.
16. Write about your worst (or most annoying) private attribute and why you consider you may have it.
17. Play the “Why” recreation: Write how you are feeling proper now and ask “Why?” then hold answering and asking that query till you run out of stuff to jot down.
18. Write a imaginative and prescient of who you might be 5 or 10 years from now.
19. Write a listing of achievements you’re happy with.
20. What conjures up you proper now?
21. What’s a favourite reminiscence out of your childhood?
22. What’s a favourite reminiscence from every decade of your life?
23. Write a brief story about an individual named after you: the place would their story start, and what adventures would you place on their path?
24. What are three small moments from at present that made you smile?
25. For those who may have 100% management over your day tomorrow, what wouldn’t it seem like?
26. Describe a mistake you’ve made and what you’ve discovered from it.
27. What’s one thing you battle to forgive yourself for?
28. What’s a cringeworthy second that typically retains you awake?
29. Write a “thank you” letter to somebody, understanding you’d by no means ship it to them.
30. What is an effective behavior you’ve developed that has helped you change into a greater model of your self? Did you want that behavior in the beginning, or was it a behavior you had no selection however to develop?
31. Write a time or a interval of your life once you felt really at peace with your self.
32. Are you aware what your core values are? Record them and write their “Why”.
33. What does success seem like to you?
34. What’s one thing controversial you consider in however are shy of telling others about?
35. What’s a perception you as soon as had however you’ve modified your thoughts about?
36. Write about an irrational worry you may have and clarify why you need to (or don’t need to) overcome it.
37. Describe a time once you felt fully uncontrolled of your life. Trying again from the attitude of time, do you see issues the identical approach?
38. Whose voice do you hear in your head once you decide your self? Can’t determine it? Write down the issues it tells you and browse by way of – who speaks like that in your life?
39. Describe a aim or a dream you’ve deserted.
40. For those who may select to be genuinely well-known for one factor, what would that factor be?
41. Write a couple of time once you have been braver than anticipated.
42. What’s one thing you might be presently scuffling with?
43. What are three stuff you consider folks by no means see in you?
44. Is there a distinction between the way in which you see your self and the way in which folks understand you?
45. Describe the final time you felt deeply linked to somebody. What have been you speaking about?
46. What’s a behavior or a private trait you now not have, and you might be blissful about it?
47. Record 5 stuff you love concerning the present season of your life.
48. What’s one thing you want you might say out loud, however you may’t or shouldn’t?
49. What’s your relationship with change – do you embrace it, or do you worry it?
50. Describe part of your self you might be nonetheless attempting to grasp.
51. What’s one thing in your life proper now that feels “just right”?
52. For those who may discover out only one factor about your future, what wouldn’t it be?

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