Journaling and reflective writing prompts that help you

I find that your head is always full of chatter. The best writing is freeform writing where you just dump your thoughts and as you do, do so in third person, this will create "mental distancing" and bring you out of the emotional attachment to the topic.

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Katerina, thanks for this post :) My prompt is internal.. whenever I feel overwhelm, anger or frustration; I journal to vomit out those feelings.. What I write will usually clarify the triggers that led me to that yucky place.. My journal is like a gutter.

This topic is really interesting. A lot of people definitely struggle to journal. Thats why we made prompt generation a huge feature in our journaling and meditaiton app O My Soul. Below are some of my favorite prompts: 1) I am anxious when… 2) Write a list of people that you trust. 3) Can you make any changes to your daily routine? 4) What is something you are grateful for today? For more checkout the O My Soul app we have tons more prompts to help people use journaling to meditate and connect with themsleves! http://OMySoulApp.com

Love this topic! Sometimes you already know what you want to write about, so using a prompt can feel forced. "What's on your mind?" may work best in those situations. However, sometimes you really need a good question to get into "Thinking Time". A few I like for that purpose: - "What do you do well now that you didn’t do so well a year ago?" - "What’s a stressor in your life that you could remove?" - "What is something you can do this year that when looking back 5 years from now, you'd point to that as the thing that made a difference?" - "What's a story you keep telling yourself that isn't helpful?" - "What's going well in your life right now?" - "What are two things you haven’t started because you're pursuing perfection? What are a few steps you could take today?" - "What's best in the short-term and what's best in the long-term?" Like any good conversation, you often need a followup question to dig deeper: - Five whys (Ask yourself "Why?" to better understand why things matter, deeper motivations, or root causes. - What are the facts and what is your perception? (separate the events an outside observer would recount from how your own emotions shape your beliefs) When you find prompts that work for you and get your mind going, keep track of them and re-use them. I eventually created a simple website with some helpful prompts to help myself more easily jump into journaling and not spend time thinking about what to write -- https://journalprompt.me/

I've built a little automated workflow that sends me a mini-reflection questionnaire every day at around 9PM. It asks: 1) how are you feeling today (on a scale of 1-5, 1 being terrible and 5 being amazing) 2) why are you feeling this way 3) if you could start the day again, what would you do differently I've been running this for 2 months now, so the data its collecting is pretty interesting in terms of tracking the highs and lows of running a startup. Another great and challenging question to ask (from Steve Jobs): If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?

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