What are some of your go-to prompts or exercises when you sit down with your journal? Do you have daily practices, weekly themes, or spontaneous approaches? Let’s build a collection of journaling prompts together!
Right now my only journaling is a daily bullet journal/habit tracker with a couple of comments on the day, something I’m praying over, and something I’m grateful for and the Morning Pages exercise (a daily brain dump which helps me process the stuff in my head without being too overwhelming). It’s enough for me in this season of life.
That does sound like a great routine you’ve created for yourself! Those little bits of intentionality and gratitude can do WONDERS. Nice!
Morning Pages. 3 pages of cursive brain dump. And lists
I started out journaling doing a bit more complex and creative bullet journaling, but really, i found myself just drawing guidelines so I could write. Then “morning pages” (julia cameron’s 3 page morning brain dump) got me started in a plain composition book, many moons ago. I vary it up by doing wide rule, less concentrated pages for one book, then denser college-ruled manifestos of daily everyday meanderings for the next. I quickly recovered the cursive skills of my youth, and take a lot of joy doing it. My style has even evolved, there’s some really beautiful variations on D’s and B’s, for instance, and just writing them feels good. The back couple pages are generally words i find particularly fun to write, once discovered, quotes, etc.
All that said – ive been thinking of going back to a more creative bullet journal style. If anything just to start using the sheer volume of hoarded, quality craft supplies i have falling off the shelves. it’s comical. I really should use it 🙂
this style of D & B have change my cursive life for the better. Very satisfying to perform that stroke
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