19 Journal Prompts to Build a Healthy Mindset

Few issues have helped me in my journey to emotional and bodily well being greater than journaling each day. I needed to work at this behavior, however now it’s my favourite solution to reset my temper or finish the day. Writing issues down clears my thoughts of unresolved questions and stresses. I additionally journal to trace particular issues about my well being, household techniques, or progress on private targets and challenges.

Either means, it helps to have an inventory of journal prompts available. I’ve collected a few of my favorites to share with you.

p.s. Jump to the top of this put up to obtain ready-made journaling pages with all of those prompts. You’ll additionally discover my record of favourite journals and extra sources for journaling inspiration as nicely!

Journaling to Build a Growth Mindset

A set mindset believes expertise is all that’s wanted to have a profitable life, and that effort performs no function. With a set mindset, we have a tendency to surrender if we don’t instantly see an answer or one other means of doing one thing.

In distinction, a progress mindset helps us altering our mind-set and consider that, by way of effort, we are able to develop, overcome, and advance in all areas of our lives. These prompts may help construct a resilient mind-set.

Journaling can be a terrific behavior to introduce to your teenagers, because the years throughout puberty may be particularly turbulent. Use journal prompts like those under to assist introduce and instill a progress mindset, versus the mounted mindset they usually develop from their friends.

Journal Prompt Ideas for Mom, Dad & Teens

These are some journal prompts we’ve tried round our home… get a journal and spend some downtime performing some coronary heart and mind work. You received’t remorse it!

These additionally make nice dialog starters across the dinner desk!

Prompt #1 – Things I can management & issues I can’t management…

Understanding what we are able to change and what we can’t change is useful because it adjustments how we take a look at issues. For instance, we can’t change that there are solely 24 hours in a day, nonetheless, we are able to change what we do inside these hours to make them extra productive. Having some of these gadgets listed out in a journal helps us give attention to the issues they’ll management as an alternative of the adverse of the gadgets we are able to’t management.

Prompt #2 – What makes an individual a superb buddy?

Being in a position to consider and establish optimistic character traits that make up a high quality buddy not solely helps us discover and maintain good mates — it additionally helps us to develop into a greater buddy ourselves. When we take into consideration what we wish from others it is just pure to consider what we’re additionally contributing to a relationship. All relationships are two-way streets and studying this early is important to profitable relationships.

Prompt #3 – Who is an individual you admire? What character traits do you’ve in widespread with them?

By figuring out an individual you look as much as and breaking down which character traits you admire, you’ll be able to emulate these traits extra in your each day lives. It is straightforward for us to know we like or look as much as somebody, it takes extra thought and time to actually establish what it’s we admire inside them. Learning to strongly establish and talk these traits is a giant win within the life enviornment.

Prompt #4 – Write your cranky self an inventory of ‘Happiness Instructions’

By figuring out the methods we make ourselves completely satisfied, it’s simpler to ensure we’re doing quite a lot of these happiness-boosting actions regularly. It can be useful to have an inventory made in order that once we get into a kind of moods, you’ll be able to simply scan the record and decide one thing doable. (By the time we’re within the grumpy temper, our artistic problem-solving abilities have been used up, so a easy record of directions will make an enormous distinction making it exhausting to remain cranky for lengthy!)

Get some inspiration on this podcast on psychological fashions and the way they may help us.

Prompt #5 – Finish the sentence “I am….”

It is so tough to seek out worth in ourselves, usually we’re our personal worst critics. Spend a while actually fascinated with what defines you. Think by way of relationships, lecturers, creativity, adjectives that describe you, favourite outings or sports activities, and your favourite issues. It is straightforward to get so hung up on what we’re not, specializing in the optimistic helps us see our potential.

Prompt #6 – If you had all of the braveness on this planet to attempt one thing new, what would you attempt?

Dream massive! Think about that one factor you’ll need to do if nothing stood in your means. Think by way of what you’ll need to study and do, not by way of what you’ll purchase or the place you’ll go. Why do you need to study this ability? How would you employ it to make the world a greater place?

Prompt #7 – Describe one occasion/motion you’ve taken that you’re pleased with.

It is essential to have a good time our successes. We all have these moments we’re extraordinarily pleased with. Think about yours. Take a while immediately to actually dissect this occasion. How may this occasion have gone in a different way had you not made the alternatives you probably did?

Prompt #8 – Name one thing you battle to know.

Struggling is part of life and studying, sadly, however breaking down the educational into small bits could make it simpler. Where are you struggling? What steps are you able to do to ensure you achieve a greater understanding of this idea? Create a plan with small however action-based steps that can assist you conquer this battle.

Prompt #9 – Who have you learnt that possesses nice perseverance?

Perseverance is about sticking with it and never giving up when it will get exhausting. Think again to whenever you realized to experience a motorcycle — you fell extra usually than you rode at first! But by sticking with it will definitely you bought higher till you had been using on a regular basis with out ever falling.

Who in your life do you see at the moment possessing quite a lot of perseverance? What may you possibly can study from them?

Prompt #10 – Rich or Happy?

It is straightforward to assume we wish all the cash on this planet… however do we actually? When you develop up would you relatively have all the cash you want, however not be really completely satisfied or be a hundred percent pleased with cash being tight? Expand on why you selected what you probably did. What does true happiness appear to be to you?

Prompt #11 – Do one thing form for another person immediately with out them understanding. How does this make you’re feeling?

We all love receiving reward. Sometimes although there’s extra pleasure to be discovered within the small shock issues we do for others with out them understanding it was us. Choose somebody to do one thing good for immediately after which document your response to finishing this motion. Be trustworthy: Would you’ve relatively had the credit score? What does that imply?

Prompt #12 – Write a thanks letter to your self.

Send your self a thanks card. Think about all of the issues that you’ve got executed to advance your self in life. What have you ever executed to make your self a greater son/daughter, a greater buddy, a greater pupil, and an general higher individual? Thank your self for these issues. And then write a letter to a buddy!

Prompt #13 – What makes you grumpy? What pushes your buttons? How are you able to fight them?

By figuring out the issues that make us grumpy, we are able to reduce their impact. By understanding what units you off, you’ll be able to create go-tos to make sure they don’t get to you fairly as a lot as they used to. By understanding you get grumpy when you find yourself hungry or drained, you’ll be able to ensure you all the time have a fast wholesome snack whenever you really feel the crankiness setting in or find time for a fast energy nap.

Prompt #14 – Describe what you might be working in the direction of at the moment.

What purpose do you’ve your thoughts set on? What have you ever already accomplished in working in the direction of this purpose? What do you’ve left to finish earlier than reaching this purpose? Why do you’re feeling it is crucial?

Prompt #15 – Choose a company you wish to donate $100,000 in the direction of if cash weren’t a problem.

We all have these favourite causes. Do some analysis on totally different organizations that serve these causes you’re feeling strongly about. Why did you select this group to donate to? How are you able to assist unfold the mission of this group?

Prompt #16 – When confronted with a problem is your preliminary response to keep away from it or embrace it?

We can’t management all the pieces, however we are able to management our response. What are you able to do to change your response in order that it’s 100% optimistic? Most of the time that preliminary flight response comes from concern of the unknown. How are you able to put together your self for the unknown in a means that makes you’re feeling assured sufficient to not solely settle for a problem however to take it head-on?

Prompt #17 – Accepting criticism… how can we do it with humility?

Receiving criticism can create a adverse response even when the criticism comes from a superb place. Most individuals are not attempting to make you’re feeling dangerous about your self, they’re attempting that can assist you develop and get higher. Reflect on why you’ve that instantaneous feeling of incapability, disappointment, or frustration. How are you able to reword criticism in a means that makes it really feel useful? Is there a way you’ll be able to make use of that means that you can reply to criticism with a progress mindset as if it’s a lesson of types?

Prompt #18 – Who fights for me?

We all want a military of family and friends behind us. Think about and assign job titles for the individuals who assist you. Who is your Academic Commander? How about your Lieutenant of Entertainment? And your Snack Food General? Realizing we actually do have a superb assist system (or figuring out the place we’d like assist) permits us to take dangers and check out new issues with out concern of failure as a result of we have now a military of assist behind us.

Prompt #19 – Create your individual mission assertion.

Do some analysis on mission statements and design your very personal. This private mission assertion needs to be motivational and inspirational in spirit, guiding you to attempt to your greatest life. It ought to embrace and embody who you might be as an individual. Your private mission is one that may enable you to select if an exercise is in step with who you might be and need to be in life. Maybe even make your private or household mission assertion into artwork to remind and encourage you!

Journaling Resources

Do you journal each day? If not, would these journal prompts assist?