10 Best Journaling Prompts

To be able to journal, you need good questions to ask yourself. Journaling about random and silly things will not provide any benefit to your progress. You must start of a conversation of thoughts in your mind to be able to transcribe on paper. Let it be a clash between logic and emotion, or two different decisions your mind can make.

You need to maintain answering this question for decent amount of time too, it can't be a one word answer or a short response. Deliberate and read between the lines of the question to "thicken" it up and just allow yourself to answer it with a good amount of thinking and consideration.

Answering these types of questions will build up your responsiveness and the strength of your mind, allowing it to question itself and freely viewpoints and beliefs.

How do I journal in the first place?

Journaling is one of the most crucial steps in your personal development and self-improvement journey. To stop for a couple minutes a day to write down your hopes, thoughts, goals and emotions is an incredibly helpful tool to declutter your mind. It won't only clean your mind out, but it will also quiet it down a bit too.

Here is a short guide on how to get into journaling and what benefits it provides

10: What would I do if I ruled a great empire?

Many people and probably yourself have asked themselves what they would do if they ruled the world or the country you lived in. What things would change, what things would remain and and how you would interact with other nations in the world.

This prompt is a good way to discover your political beliefs but also your general attitude towards your own society and the world itself. Understanding these things can also help you find where you stand socially, as a leader or as a follower

9: What would I teach my son?

As a guy, have you ever put in any thought into how you would raise your son if in the future you had one? It essential as a man to transmit your lessons and knowledge to that of your descendants, and your sons will be your heirs. The lack of a fatherly direction in modern times has caused a crisis amongst men of modern times, but as a masculine man you are willing to parent your children in an acceptable and beneficial manner.

What important skill did you learn to become who you are now? What mistakes did you make getting to that point that you wouldn't want your sons to repeat? These are all great things to put into consideration and will lay the basis on how you would parent your children.

8: What would I teach my daughter?

This prompt is a brilliant idea to write down about, as men typically are more focused on preparing to raise sons rather than daughters. Your daughter will rely on you for masculine order in her life, particularly watching you interact with her mother. Too many modern girls and women nowadays do not have strong and masculine fathers which most times results in them becoming highly rebellious and promiscuous.

Ask yourself as a man, would you raise your daughter to be modest? What would your reaction be to her dating a man who is low-quality and not of your standards? To realize these things will improve not only your future plans to be a father but also how you yourself interact with women and their families. Every man should respect the father of their woman, as he helped in making her worthy for you.

7: What advice would I give to a 13-year-old me?

Talking to your younger self is among the greatest ways to realize how far you have come. Really go deep into your mind and find what lessons you would teach your younger self in early adolescence.

What could you have done better at? What activity or goal would you've liked to have started earlier with? These questions allow you to understand how your thought processes over the years have changed. Everyone has something they regret not doing in the past, as no one is completely perfect. Journaling is the best medium to express these past desires that never came to fruition.

6: What does my ideal day look like?

Changing to a less introspective prompt, everyone should have a general idea of what the best day of their entire life would look like. Try to recount what such a day would be, and list out the routine for that day and what events and moments would occur in it.

Here is one part of the prompt to be focused on specifically, and that is would you be spending your day being productive and getting work done or just sitting around and doing nothing. Not doing the latter will most definitely indicate that you are a person oriented towards self-development and that is key to realize as it will motivate you to do even more than before.

5: What would I do during my dying moments?

This question to think about may seem dire and depressing, but it will reveal to you who and what you truly care about as a person. When you're breathing your final breaths, and seeing the last visions of the world what would you be doing in those moments?

Discerning and explaining the final thought processes and actions on this earth will provide insight on how short and fickle life really is and how more we must be appreciative for it. It will put into perspective how minor the problems and situations of your life are and how quickly they will be lost to the universe and time.

Take extra time to journal about this prompt, as it will provoke many thoughts and questions in your mind that can either be answered or never be known.

4: What is my biggest regret?

A very thought provoking idea to examine in a journaling response. Remembering back to that one event or activity you wish you did earlier in life is among the purest forms of reflection.

The depth of the question will only intensify as you continue to probe your mind on why you didn't do it and what could have changed in your life if you did do that one thing. Learning what could of went better in previous mistakes will allow you to prepare yourself for future things that you could take missteps on.

3: What is my biggest accomplishment?

The opposite of the prompt before this. What was that one thing you are proud of doing that changed your life forever? Reflecting on this will motivate you to make more leaps forward and put effort into the things you are pursuing to improve yourself.

Providing self-recognition is a critical part in building strong self-esteem which really helps your self-improvement journey. Try to contemplate this prompt as you continue your path to greatness, as new accomplishments will be achieved if you stay dedicated.

2: How have I improved until this point?

Another good progress-related prompt. Think back to yourself before you started a phase in your life and compare and contrast the various changes you've made and adaptations you've endured to get to your point now.

Constantly meditate on this question as your pursue your goals, as improvement occurs over time, and the more time spent improving the more you can respond to this prompt with better details.

By far, looking back on past achievements and seeing how much you've transformed is among the most important things you can do while being on self-improvement as it will only fuel your inspiration.

1: What is my greatest fear?

The ultimate question to ask yourself. What is your biggest concern and why are you concerned about. Identifying and explaining why you fear someone or something is the first step to becoming less fearful of it, as thinking and journaling about it puts the fear in a more reasonable perspective.

Try to really interrogate your mind while journaling about why you are afraid of this certain thing and how you can move past it. Imagine yourself trying to smash a brick wall you thought was indestructible with a sledgehammer, each swing you chip off another piece of brick. Repeatedly trying to attack your fears in your mind will making it much easier to attack them in actuality.

This is how people who journal become more confident and secure with themselves, as the learn their strengths and their weaknesses, and through this can determine what they need to improve on what they don't.

What now?

Pull out a piece of paper, grab a pen or pencil and choose one of the quotes listed to write about. If you already have a journal, flip to the back several pages and write down these questions so you can have them at your disposal whenever you're journaling.

The more you journal with deep prompts like these, the more you'll create your own. Hopefully these sample questions have put you on the right track to get started with this incredibly helpful tool to really understand how your mind works.