Themed Journals

Many problems can be solved and many goals can be achieved if we simply sustain our attention on them for long enough. Unfortunately, we live in a world of constant distraction so it’s easy to lose sight or to spread ourselves too thinly.

An elegant solution to this is to start a Themed Journal.

Here’s how:

The Themed Journal

• Pick one area of your life that you want to focus on. One specific problem, one toxic loop or one specific thing you want to grow and cultivate.
• Start a Themed Journal on this topic, e.g. “My People Pleasing Journal” or “Doing What I Said I’d Do Journal”
• You can use a physically separate notebook for this, but it’s not mandatory.
• Every day, use this journal to check in with this area of your life.

Prompts

Here are some prompts you can use for your daily writing:

• In this specific area of my life, what happened / what came up today?
• What is the next small step I can implement to improve / cultivate this in my life?
• In what way did I implement my new behaviors today?
• What missed opportunities came up today? What will I do differently next time?
• As I experiment with a new way of being, what triggers, fears and emotional charges come up?

Also, use all of your Introspective Writing tools to work through whatever comes up.

The Challenge

Start a Themed Journal for one area of your life and stick with it for at least 3 weeks.