Five things you're grateful for.

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.

• 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?

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.

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?

You can find some more prompts here :)

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

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)

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.

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!

I have a "☕ Daily Check-in" section of my daily journal page, in which I have the prompts:

• How am I feeling?
• Grateful for...
• Top 3 Tasks for Today