Prompts
Daily
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?
Weekly
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))
Quarterly
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?
Sometime
Might-Do List by John Zeratsky
source: The Might-Do List – Make Time
- 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？
Rules
My Journal Rules
記得
- 千萬不要追求完美，把日記當成最佳的塗鴉板和垃圾桶，每一頁都有它的特別。子彈筆記或日記的使命，是陪伴自己每段想自言自語的時刻，每個需要樹洞的時候。
- Have fun！人生得意須盡歡，莫使金樽空對月，記得享受此時此刻，或是催眠自己，當自己感到緊張的時候，想像自己其實是感到興奮。
- 多畫畫吧，畫畫很酷。每個人都會畫畫，每個人都會寫作，人類與 AI 最大的不同是「不可預期性」，你永遠不知道大腦想引領你到哪，不如就享受你的特別和神遊在思緒地圖吧。
- 不要認真過頭了，記錄最無聊、破碎、瑣碎的小事，這些都是日常生活，每個人一生只有一次ＯＯ歲，所以盡情享受每一天每一分每一秒。
- 當卡住的時候，問問自己「今天的冒險是什麼？」，起身去探險吧！
- 不知道寫什麼的時候，寫寫看這頁到處搜集的問題吧。
Keep in mind
- Never seek perfectionism.
- Have fun! Enjoy life every chance you get. Remember to enjoy the moment or trick yourself by telling yourself you choose to do so, and ask yourself, “Isn’t it supposed to be fun?”
- Treat journal as your best friend, your ally, your playground, or your drawing pad.
- The journal is here to accompany you through every minute that I have something to express from my mind. Just like the notebook, Leuchtturm, the lighthouse is always here.
- Don’t take it too seriously. Write down the boredom, tiny things; these are all part of daily life. YOLO. You only live once. So enjoy every second. Every word, every sentence has its meaning, even if you can’t see it yet. Just as Dr. Tsai once mentioned, “Everyone only has the chance to live one’s life.”
- When you get stuck, simply ask yourself, “What’s today’s adventure?” or choose any journal prompts you would love to answer. GO AND HAVE FUN!