Journal Prompts

  • What kind of day are you having? Why?

  • Favorite place? Why?

  • Favorite song? Favorite lyric?

  • What do you like to do? How does it make you feel?

  • What is something you're good at? What makes you good at it?

  • What would you change about yourself? Is there a way for you to change it?

  • What would you change about your life? Is there a way for you to change it?

  • What worries you? Are these worries realistic? Is there anything you can do about them?

  • What is your method for important decision making?

  • In what areas of life are you optimistic?

  • In what areas of life are you pessimistic?

  • What are your most prized possessions?

  • Who is someone you miss?

  • What is something someone else has that you envy? Describe it and your feelings about it.

  • A book, song, show, or movie that has influenced you. How?

  • An assumption people might make about you. Is it true or false?

  • What is something you disagree with about how you were raised?

  • What is your favorite season? Why? Describe it, what you do during it, who you might see, where you might go.

  • Describe your dream job, partner, house.

  • How would you like your life to be when you're older?

  • What would the guest list be at your dream party? What would the guests talk about?

  • What magic power would you like to have? What would you do with it?

  • What is something you were afraid of as a child?

  • What is something difficult you've had to do?

  • Describe an embarrassing moment that's happened to you.

  • Describe someone you have lost. What are some of your memories together?

  • What is something that helped to shape your perspective on life?

  • Describe your teachers at school.

  • When you were a child, how did you imagine your adult self?

  • Memories you associate with spring, summer, fall, winter.

  • Talk about your first day of school or college.

  • Talk about your first car. How did you feel when you got it? How did you get it? What did it look like?

  • Describe your first home. Talk about any memories you had there. How did it make you feel?

  • Describe your first pet. Talk about any memories you had.

  • Describe your first job. Did you like it? Why?

What memories are brought by the following smells?

  • Pine needles

  • Cut grass

  • Sunscreen

  • Rubbing alcohol

  • Cinnamon

  • Newly-vacuumed carpet

  • Orange peel

  • Roses

  • A new car

  • Frying bacon

What other smells bring specific memories to you?