2024 Journaling Prompts
Posted by Helen Wang on
I used think journaling prompts were a bit cheesy, but in the past few months, I have found a lot of value in working with prompts. A few benefits I found were:
- It builds habit. Knowing that I have a prompt to answer every day kickstarts the day for me.
- It doesn't matter if my answer is one sentence or two long paragraphs, as long as I answer the prompt, I feel a sense of accomplishment.
- It allows me to reflect on myself, my life, and my environment. In my daily life, I don't get to sit down and just think. Having to answer a prompt gives me the opportunity to keep in touch with myself, no matter how silly the question is!
The following prompts are randomly generated from a list of 1000 prompts. I did make modifications to some questions just to make it flow better (in my opinion).
April 2024
- What are you planning to eat for lunch today?
- If you could pick a year, would you rather go back in time, stay in the present, or visit the future?
- What has been the most painful physical pain you experienced?
- What do you find cringey?
- What is a fashion trend you like and dislike?
- Do you believe in romantic soul mates?
- What is an urge you resisted recently?
- Do you think you’re a better person today than a year ago?
- What do you like most about your job?
- What can you do this year to make 2025-you proud?
- What is the most crowded place you have been to?
- What do you need most right now?
- If you could tell your parents one thing at the time of your birth, what would it be?
- Is there a business you stopped buying from recently?
- Do you have any weekly traditions?
- How do you feel when you tell people what you do for a job?
- What would wealthy look like for you?
- Are there any foods that you’d like to eat more of?
- What’s your favourite spot in your home?
- How do you feel about getting older?
- What was a coincidence that you noticed?
- List your three favourite physical traits.
- What is a habit you would like to adopt?
- Who is the most confident person you know?
- Have any books changed your life?
- What is a topic you can give an impromptu lecture on?
- Would you rather have more structure or flexibility?
- What is something that you’ve been wanting to try?
- To what degree to you care what other people think?
- What are your goals for May?
March 2024
- What makes you feel like a child again?
- What is an inexpensive thing you purchased that has improved your life?
- What actor would you hire to play you in a movie biography?
- What book setting would you like to visit, if you could?
- If you had to sacrifice one of your senses (taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing), which would you choose?
- Which disease known to humankind do you hate the most?
- Would 10-year-old you be proud of you today?
- How can you be a better friend?
- What is your favourite day of the entire year?
- What characteristics or personality traits are most important to you in a politician?
- What is something unusual you noticed recently?
- What's the most difficult part about being you?
- What do you think about as you are falling asleep?
- I wish I had enough money to...
- What has been your most memorable compliment?
- What is a snack you have no self-control around?
- What quality do you dislike in other people?
- What do you not get enough credit for?
- Who is the most impactful person in your life right now?
- What does your name mean?
- What do you think is unfair about your life?
- What are some things on your wishlist?
- What are you looking forward to right now?
- What do you need to stop doing?
- What would you do if time stopped for 1 day, for everyone but you?
- What is something that I can do today, that will benefit me tomorrow?
- What breakfast is your favourite to start the day with?
- What is a hobby you have been wanting to try?
- I have trouble sleeping when…
- What was your favourite toy or game growing up?
- What are your goals for April?
February 2024
- What was the most interesting thing you saw or heard recently?
- What is one of your quirks?
- If you could live 24 hours as any person in the world, who would it be?
- What was a difficult decision you had to make?
- What is your favourite scent of lotion?
- What is a skill or area of knowledge you would like to develop in the next year?
- What emotion do you find the most challenging?
- How do you respond to compliments?
- What is a weird food combination you like?
- Are you a spontaneous person?
- What have you been procrastinating?
- If you had to choose between having a personal chef, a housekeeper, or a personal trainer, which would you pick?
- If you could have a paid-for shopping spree at any store for 1 hour, which store would you pick?
- What was the first way you earned money?
- What worries you about our society's trajectory?
- What is your favourite hour of the day?
- What colour do you like to wear the most?
- What do you think you are the top 1% in?
- If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
- I wish there were a law that ...
- How do you find the balance between saving money for the future while spending money on things in the present?
- I wish I had a friend who shares my love for ...
- Do you find value in rereading books, or rewatching movies?
- What is the silliest lie you have told?
- What do you think of the saying, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"?
- When on a vacation, do you prefer to lounge and relax, or go out and explore?
- What is your favourite cuisine to get takeout of?
- What company do you refuse to buy from for any valid or petty reason?
- What are your goals for March?
January 2024
- What is one job you would never do?
- Can you buy happiness?
- What year would you like to relive, without changing anything about it?
- How do you think instant riches affect relationships?
- What does it mean to be a friend?
- What would you do if you found hair in your food?
- What do you think the world needs right now?
- What is your favourite charitable cause?
- What is one thing that happened recently, that you would like to remember 10 years from now?
- Describe your most important possession.
- What is the best restaurant that you have been to?
- What tempted you today?
- What is something that bugs you?
- What advice would you give to a new student?
- Would you like to be a celebrity?
- If you found a suitcase full of money in the middle of the street, what would you do?
- Describe the ocean to a person who is blind.
- Sum-up your day in one word, then your week in one word, then your month in one word.
- What is a trait you wish you had?
- When were you the happiest in the past 5 years?
- How do you deal with bad body image days?
- What colour makes you think of happiness?
- I wish I didn't have to ...
- When do you feel proud?
- If money wasn't an issue, what kind of a house would you have?
- What is troubling you the most, at this moment?
- Is there a movie that has brought you to tears?
- Have you had an incident because you overslept?
- What is a convenience you cannot go without?
- What animal frightens you?
- What are your goals for February?
Comments
Thank you Helen for these journaling prompts and your lettering practise sheets and all you do to encourage us! i love using your stickers / washi!
This Journalling Prompts is so helpful.
This is so useful for me as I can sit down after my days off work and forget what happen
And just to jot down what the daily question prompt is.
Thank you for this, Helen.
Thank you so much for these prompts. This is relly helping me with my daily journaling
YAY! Thank you for the sharing the prompts this is so helpful!
Always looking forward to your prompts
The prompts are so fun!
Thank you for this prompts. I am starting again journaling and these has help me a lot to discover myself.
The prompts have helped me journal each and every day this year! Thank you for putting the list together, Helen!!
Just wanted to say thank you for the the prompts. These questions got me questioning myself and got to know myself more. Thank you! ♥️
Yay! March Prompts are here! I love them already.