25 Journal Prompts

How can journal prompts help motivate you?

Everyone desires to be a better person, but it is not always easy. Motivation can often be hard to come by, especially when feeling unmotivated. Journal prompts can help to motivate you in many ways, such as:

• Getting things out of your head and onto paper can help you feel better about yourself and what you want in life. This is because writing down your thoughts is no longer just floating around in your head.
• Writing down your goals helps keep them at the forefront of your mind so that it is easier for you to achieve them. In addition, once written down, it is easier for us to remember what we need to do to achieve our goals and dreams.
• When we write down our goals, we become more aware of how close or far away from achieving them we are at any given moment in time, as well as what we need to do next to reach those goals or dreams sooner rather than later, and depending upon how long it takes us.

Journal prompts for self-discovery.

1. What do you want to be when you grow up? Why?
2. What is your favorite thing about yourself?
3. Who is the most important person in your life? Why?
4. What is the best memory of your childhood? Who was there with you?
5. What’s something that happened recently that surprised or shocked you?
6. What’s something that happened recently that made you feel proud of yourself or someone else?
7. If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be and why?
8. The last time you were angry, what happened?
9. What’s the best thing that happened in your life this week?
10. What’s the worst thing that happened in your life this week?
11. What’s one thing you’d like to do more of this month?
12. What’s one thing you’d like to do less of this month?
13. Is there anything in your life that feels like a waste of time and energy? How could you make it more useful for you?
14. What do you regret doing or not doing today? How could you have done it differently?
15. What are your life’s three most important things right now? Why those three things, and not others?
16. If you could get rid of any one thing in your life right now (a person, an object), what would it be, and why do you want to get rid of it so badly?
17. What’s your favorite smell?
18. What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?
19. If you could invite five people from history to dinner, who would they be and why?
20. If you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself about something that happened in your life?
21. What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned recently?
22. What is something that you think no one should do? Why not?
23. What was the last good movie/book/podcast/etc.? You saw/read/listened to/etc.? Why was it good?
24. Where would it be and why if you could be anywhere right now?
25. What are two things on your bucket list (and when do they need to get done by)?

These prompts will help you get started on the road to a new outlook or a more positive self-image. It’s essential not to be afraid of change. A change in perspective is sometimes all you need. For more journaling prompts see the blog post ” Journaling Prompts To Inspire You”