By Jill
Become Your Best Self!
Here are some journal prompts to help you become your ideal self, process emotions, and relieve anxiety & stress.
You get to decide who you want to be and how you want to show up to the world and to your loved ones.
Building awareness of our thoughts and feelings is key in order to change them in a way that helps us feel happy and centered.
Journaling is a great way to gain awareness of our thoughts and who we want to become.
What if you could feel amazing everyday?
You can help shift how you feel with the following introspective questions to ask yourself. Read more to find out how.
Think of your ideal life and ideal self so you can be intentional with how you spend time, how you you think and react.
“Is this a new experience or does it keep showing up?”
“What will I do about these feelings so they can be changed/transmuted?”
I hope some of these tips help you feel in more control of your life and to have thoughts become more intentional in shaping the life of your dreams!
It all starts with one small change at a time.
Becoming Your Best Self Journal Prompts to Create a Better Life:
Grab a pen and paper and jot down your answers to these journal prompt questions.
1. How would you act, dress, and respond to others and to life as the ideal version of you?
2. What kind of thoughts would your ideal self have?
3. What would your ideal self say to do about your current situation?
Talk to yourself using how your ideal self would speak to you and have a voice of a kind friend, not one of judgement.
4. What would you tell your best friend if they asked you for advice in your situation?
Talk to yourself like you matter because YOU do and talk to yourself like you are your best friend because it would be best if you BECOME your own best friend. Self talk matters.
5. Who do you want to be?
You get to choose how you show up in life.
You get to choose who you will be and if you do not like something, you can change it.
You get to create a life you love.
6. Decide on new action steps you can take daily to change your routine to align with the ideal version of your future. Start 1 tomorrow.
7. What short-term action plan can you make that can implement a small change (perhaps 1 week of the change)?
8. What is draining your energy or wasting your time? Can you cut this out for 3 days? Maybe you are losing time to notifications on your phone and can put on do not disturb. Maybe you can stop social media for 1 day and build up to 3 days.
9. Replace time wasters with something new or helpful towards your goals. Write down a few possibilities.
10. Make an action plan for the next month and check in daily with daily goals. Write out a small list for the action plan.
11. Write down a small list of what you wish you could get done and accomplish this week, this month, and the next 3 months.
12. Write a list of past experiences that made you feel “labeled” or judged or could have changed you. Perhaps you are shy but it is because people told you that you were quiet. It is the trait you have or past experience really true? Is it something you heard and then became? Could you challenge it?
13. Are any past judgements, fears, or labels stopping you from doing what you want in the present moment or the future? Write down what they may be and what they are blocking.
Journaling and gratitude have been proven in studies to reduce depression and anxiety.
Even if you are not depressed or anxious, briefly writing down what you are grateful for (3-5 things) can improve your mood over time.
Emotional Processing Journal Prompts to Become Aware of Your Thoughts:
1. “What am I feeling right now and why?” and
2. “What feeling goes with the thoughts I had earlier.”
3. Ask yourself, “Why do I think or feel this way?” What could have led to this?
4. “Is this a new experience or does it keep showing up?”
5. “What will I do about these feelings so they can be changed/transmuted?”
Reduce anxiety with these tips and journal prompts:
1. Try to find the cause and try to find a slightly better thought you can have that temporarily replaces the anxious/worrying thought. Write it down.
Keep improving this thought either throughout the day or the week.
Change your thoughts and you will change how you feel. The way you feel influences the actions you take. The actions you take change your outcomes.
2. Make a “daily thoughts” journal.” The journal may include:
3. “What am I feeling right now and why” and “What feeling goes with the thoughts I had earlier?”
4. Ask yourself, “Why do I think or feel this way?”
5. What solutions can I focus on (rather than focusing on problems)? Is there a way I can see this problem differently or try something new I haven’t thought of?
6. Where can I search for answers and new information that can help me find new solutions? Make a list and check out 1 per day for 5 or 10 minutes. It may be a blog, podcast, book, or course. Getting new ideas can change your perspective.
If you have never journaled before or would like to discover different types of Journals for ideas, check out: How to Start a Journal
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