Are you looking for a way to jumpstart your creativity, productivity, and happiness? If so, then you should try using 5-minute journal prompts. Journaling can be a great way to reflect on your day and get your thoughts out in the open. Not only that, but it can also help improve your mental health and well-being. This blog post will discuss 106 five-minute journal prompts you can use to start your day off on the right foot!
106 Short Journal Prompts for Your Morning Routine
These five-minute journaling prompts help you find a few minutes to pause, reflect, and be grateful each day.
- What things are you grateful for?
- What’s a good example of what makes you happy?
- What’s the first thing you thought of when you woke up?
- Can you remember your dream?
- What does your environment look like right now? How does it make you feel?
- Rate your energy from 1-10 (1 being the lowest, 10 being the highest).
- How is your mood right now on a scale of 1-10 (1 being the worst, 10 being the best)?
- What did you eat for breakfast this morning?
- What’re your goals for today?
- What do you like best about your day?
- How did you sleep last night? Was it good, bad, or somewhere in between?
- What were your three favorite moments from yesterday, and why did they stand out to you?
- Did anyone make you laugh yesterday? If so, who and why did they make you laugh?
- What was the hardest decision you made yesterday?
- Do you regret anything about yesterday and if so, what’s it?
- What did you do yesterday that made you happy?
- Did you learn anything new yesterday? If so, what?
- How could you’ve made yesterday better?
- How does your day usually start? What things do you do to prepare for the day?
- What would make today great?
- What’re your top 3 priorities right now?
- What takes a lot of time but is worth it?
- What’re the biggest problems in your life right now?
- What’re you worried about?
- How can you improve this week?
- What’re your goals for this week?
- How do you feel about going to work today?
- Is there anything going through your mind right now that you should write down before you go to work?
- Who’re you most looking forward to seeing at work today?
- How can you be more productive today?
- How can you be a better listener today?
- How could you make a good impression at work today?
- Why did you choose this career path?
- What’s your biggest weekly challenge at work, and how do you plan to overcome it?
- If you could change one thing about your current job, what would it be?
- What’s it about your job that makes it stressful?
- How do you spend your breaks at work?
- What do you want to get done by the end of the day (or week)?
- What three things happened last week that taught you something new about yourself or someone else?
- What’re you proud of in your professional life?
- What’ve you liked best about your job so far?
- How do you feel when you think about work?
- How do you feel when you leave work?
- What do you think about the people who work with you?
- What’s it about your work that makes it worthwhile?
- How do you handle stress at work?
- How do you make time for yourself outside of work?
- What would it be if you could change one thing about your job?
- What’re the biggest challenges in your job that people mightn’t know about?
- What’s something new you’ve learned about yourself from this job?
- What would it be and why if you could take one skill from another job into your job?
- How often do you’ve the opportunity to be creative at work, and what does creativity look like to you? Is it important to you?
- What advice would you give someone who wants to step into your shoes?
- What’s the best day you’ve had at work since this job? Why was it so good?
- What was the worst day at work since you had this job? Why was it so bad?
- How has your attitude toward work changed over time?
- What helps you feel calm and centered?
- What’s something positive about you that other people mightn’t know?
- Do you’ve any plans for tonight or tomorrow? If so, which ones, and why did you choose them? If not, what would be your ideal plan for tonight or tomorrow night, and why would it be ideal for you in particular?
- Where would you like to travel next?
- What’s preventing you from achieving your goals?
- How can you overcome that obstacle?
- What can’t wait until tomorrow?
- How do you want to feel in the future?
- What’s good for your body?
- How can you take care of yourself in a new way?
- Who or what gives you energy and inspires you?
- How can you be more mindful today?
- How often do you take time to just be for yourself, without distractions or other people around you?
- How can you be more present now?
- How does it feel when you breathe in and out right now?
- What’s going on with your breathing? Is it shallow or deep?
- How did your body feel yesterday? Was it sore, tired, stiff, happy, etc.? How would you describe it in one word (or a few words)?
- What does it mean to you to be healthy?
- How have your ideas about health changed over time?
- What’s most important to you now regarding living healthy and maintaining good habits?
- What’s your favorite thing to do for exercise?
- How do you think your health would change if you spent more time on self-care?
- What’re your health goals?
- What’s the best way to get yourself to get outside?
- What makes you feel more confident than ever before?
- How does being kinder to yourself affect how you treat others?
- How can you be kinder to yourself today?
- Where do you feel tension in your body?
- How is your posture? Do you need to correct it?
- What’s one small thing you can do to improve your self-care?
- What do you need to do before bed tonight?
- What’re you going to say “no” to today?
- What’re 3 amazing things you’ve accomplished in your life?
- List five things that give you a positive mindset.
- Who did you spend time with yesterday, and was it meaningful to you? Why or why not?
- What does it mean to you to be in a relationship?
- What’s the most important thing to you when it comes to relationships?
- What’s your biggest fear in a relationship?
- What would it be if you could change one thing about your partner or the person you’re attracted to?
- What would you like to learn from the people in your life?
- What’re you grateful for in your relationships right now? Is there a person you should show your gratitude to?
- How do you feel when someone asks you for help?
- What’s the most amazing thing about being your age? The worst thing?
- How can you be more generous to others?
- How can you better express your feelings and thoughts to others?
- How do you feel about the way you spend your time?
- What’re the 3 most important boundaries you should set in your life?
- How can you better control your stress level when interacting with people close to you?
- What habit would you like to change?
- What’s your most creative thing in the last few days?
Keep Your Journal Template Short and Simple
The five-minute journal is a simple way to track your day. It only takes a few minutes a day and can help you get a better picture of how you’re feeling. You can use it for any type of daily journal template, but the five-minute journal is best used in conjunction with the morning pages (see below).
The First Thing You Need to Do Is Get a Notebook or Journal
It doesn’t have to be fancy, just something you can carry around with you throughout the day. I prefer to use Moleskine notebooks because they come in different sizes so I can use them for different tasks, but there are many other options.
Once You Have Your Notebook, You Need to Start Your Journaling Practice!
The first step is always just to write down whatever comes to mind. Don’t worry about grammar or spelling; just write whatever comes to mind. If nothing comes to mind at first, that’s okay too – just take some time and think about what’s going on in your life right now before you start again (maybe you can read through yesterday’s gratitude journal entry for inspiration).
The five Minute Journaling habit is a simple but powerful tool to help you develop healthy habits and your daily gratitude practice. It helps you focus on your goals, increase your creativity and productivity, and give yourself a moment of peace each day.
In your morning pages, you can also include a personal daily inspirational daily quote, daily affirmation, personal statement, and short personal story.