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?