Annually Prompts
From Modern Wisdom Annual Review Template by Chris Williamson
- What would have had to have happened by the end of next year for me to look back on the year and consider it a success?
- Who do I need to become for next year’s chapter of my life story to turn out the way I would write it?
- Knowing what I know now, what advice would I give to myself 12 months ago? (pssst - you probably still need to hear this now)
Quarterly Prompts
2024 Reflection Prompts
From Spark 2025 – Productivity Summit, by Ali Abddal
- Milestones: What were the most significant events or achievements so far in 2024 for you? How did these impact your life? (3)
- Gratitude: What are you most grateful for in 2024? Think about people, experiences, or opportunities that enriched your life. (3)
- Challenges: What were the biggest challenges or obstacles you’ve faced in 2024? How did you overcome them, and what did you learn from these experiences? (3)
- Professional Growth: How did you progress in your career or work in 2024? What were the key learnings and how have they shaped your future aspirations? (3)
- Personal Growth: In what ways have you grown or changed as a person over the past year? Consider changes in your beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. (3)
- Unfulfilled Aspirations: Were there goals or aspirations you had for 2024 that you did not achieve? Reflect on why they were not met and how you feel about it. (3)
- Relationships and Connections: Reflect on your relationships in 2024. How have they evolved? Were there new relationships that had a significant impact on you? (3)
- Looking Forward: Based on your experiences in 2024, what would you like to do differently in 2025? (3)
- What would you like to continue doing?
- What would you like start doing?
- What would you like to stop doing?
2025 Reflection Prompts
From Summer Reset 2025, by Ali Abdaal
- If your life were a movie, the audience would be screaming at you to do something, what is the thing that the audience would be screaming at you to just do?
Okay now that you know what that is, what is one thing you could do right now in the next one minute to take a step in that direction?
- Could you send a quick message?
- Could you write a little thing in your to-do list?
- Could you time block something in your calendar for later today or tomorrow?
- Could you create a commitment to yourself that you’re gonna do the thing?
- Think that something you can create in 60 seconds
- If you imagine your life as a story, what is one area or one decision that you’re currently thinking about where you’re playing it too safe and actually making a different decision would make your life more interesting?
- What decision could you make for the plot?
- You’re scared to put yourself out there because you’re worried that your friends and family and random strangers on the internet will laugh at you?
- What is one area where you’re holding yourself back because you’re afraid of what other fxxking people think about you?
- Would it make for a more interesting story if you stopped caring about that thing? What might that thing be?
- And what is one action you can take in the next 60 seconds to move you one step closer to that?
- What is one area of my life or my work where I am allowing perfect to be the enemy of good enough?
- Tim Ferriss’ journal prompts: What’s one thing that if I just do one thing, it will make almost everything else irrelevant or unnecessary?
- What actually is the stuff I wanna get done rather than just doing stuff?
- What should we do with our limited resources?
- The more you try and do everything, the less likely we are to do anything.
- Ruthless Focus
- Ruthless Simplicity
Weekly Prompts
Weekly Review Prompts
From Productivity Lab, by Ali Abdaal
- What are your top 3-5 goals for the year? How’re they going? (3)
- What were the good and great things that happened last week? Review the previous week’s accomplishments // what were the good or great things that happened last week (5)
- What were last week’s challenges? In what ways did we not act in line with our intentions for the week? And what would we like to change (if anything) next week? Review your previous week’s challenges. In what ways did you not act in line with your intentions for the week? What felt particularly hard or challenging this week? What would you like to change (if anything) next week? (5)
- Look ahead to the next 2 weeks and see what is coming up, so you need to create any calendar blocks, or any todo action items based on this? (5)
- Choose your top 3 outcomes for the upcoming week - if the week ahead was going to be a great week, what would be the top 3 things I’d accomplish? (2) ((schedule time in your calendar towards those outcomes))
Daily Prompts
My Daily Journal Prompts
Sunrise Rituals
VIBE CHECK
Scale 1-10, how’s your mood? OR Try answering the questions below:
- What’s one thing that can make today great?
- What was your favorite thing yesterday / last week?
- What is your biggest fear and obstacle?
THREE THINGS I AM GRATEFUL FOR
- What are you feeling grateful for right now? Who are you grateful to and why?
SOMETHING NEW I TRIED OR LEARNED RECENTLY
- What is something new you tried or learned recently? From readings or occasions?
SHARE SMALL WINS I AM PROUD OF RECENTLY
- What is one thing you accomplished recently that you’re proud of? Anything about kindness?
WHAT DID I DREAM?
- How did I sleep?
DAILY ADVENTURES
- What will make today great? Start small. Like reallyyy small! Write 1 line of journal.
ONE BIG THING (Health/Relationship/Work)
- What am I optimizing for?
- What are my top 3 priorities for the week, and how are they going?
- What’s today’s adventure?
- What’s 1 thing I’m excited about?
Homework For Life
- What’s the most story-worthy thing that happened today?
Sometimes Prompts
Might-Do List
From The Might-Do List – Make Time, by John Zeratsky
- Something Else I might (or might not) do today.
IKIGAI 生之意義
- 你最具有感情價值的東西是什麼？
- 能讓你覺得愉快的小事是什麼？
Somewhere
- Looking back on your career journey so far, what moments or experiences have brought you genuine happiness?
- On the other hand, what would you say has been your most fearful or challenging moment on the journey?