Journaling is a helpful technique for a number of reasons such as improving mood, self esteem, academic or professional performance and so many more mental health and psychological issues.
With the help of writing journals, you can reflect upon many of your thoughts, emotions and behaviour. This reflective thinking can thereby enhance one’s understanding of themselves.
The important question that arises here is that how do you cultivate the habit of journalling. If you are having trouble getting started with journaling, here are 10 questions that one should ask themselves when recording a journal.
Question 1: How did you spend your alone time today?
This question can target self-reflection on thoughts as well as habits. When we are alone, we are truest to ourselves. Answering this question can lead to a better understanding of our personal thinking habits and behaviour.
Question 2: What was your biggest lesson today?
We live in a world where we are surrounded by media overload. People hardly spent time with their thoughts. If you do wish to improve your personal growth then answering a question as above can define new paths for your achievements.
Question 3: What did you do really well today?
When we acknowledge our achievements and appreciate them it can work as a positive reinforcement for our future endeavours. Answering this question can develop a habit of self-appreciation which is paying gratitude and being kind to ourselves.
Question 4: How did you take care of your health today?
Health is very important! Some of us have a neglected attitude towards taking care of our health. Well, you can overcome this negligence by answering this question in your journal every day. It will keep on track of health record-keeping and you can improve physical and mental wellbeing from sharing your thoughts in the journal.
Question 5: What are your priorities for the next day?
Do you find difficult to follow deadlines and designate priorities? You can challenge this behaviour by planning your priorities ahead of time. Setting priority is a helpful approach to meeting deadlines and being more efficient at work. Another advantage of journaling is improving memory which again helps one manage their priorities.
Question 6: How well did you communicate with people today?
One should value communication in terms of expressing their feelings and opinion at work, with family or in a relationship and in order to do so it is important to ask yourself if you are able to emote your feelings through communication. This can lead you to overcome the gap due to misunderstanding and miscommunication.
Question 7: What is the one thing that you learned today at your school, college or workplace?
Self-improvement can only come when we aspire to learn new things and improve habits that have not been helpful. We can imbibe these habits from peers, teachers, managers and many other people around us. We can also improve by expanding our knowledge of the world and its people. This is another question that can help your make room for improvement by learning new things from our surroundings.
Question 8: What can you improve?
You can ask yourself what you can improve in terms of personal development, work related development or it can also be for improving our relationships with our partner or family or our children.
Question 9: What are you most grateful for today?
Every day has something to be grateful about, be it, our health, our family’s wellbeing, any latest achievements or even our personal growth. Gratitude has been found to improve our mental health and is associated with greater happiness.
Question 10: What is the one thing about you that makes other people happy?
The last question provides a second person’s perspective and that even a positive one. Use this approach with your family members, partner or children as an interactive and bonding activity. It will make everyone feel nice about themselves.
Lead a more positive lifestyle by keeping track of your thoughts and feelings and gaining control over them. Journalling, rightfully, focuses on developing emotional skills that stay for a lifestyle and therefore help in combating mental health problems, relationship problems, emotional and psychological issues that can affect anyone at any point of their lifetime.
Journals at MHT Store
Start From Within – Gratitude Journal
Make Gratitude a part of your everyday Life. This 90 day Transformational journey will help you explore the unexplored areas of your Life that you’ve been missing out on.
These two simple words like I AM can change your Life & help you attract abundance.
This journal also contains a list of different Holistic Affirmations for your over all well being.
Keep affirming , keep growing!
Specifications:
- Kraft paper
- Size A5
- Set of 10 affirmations to write everyday to programme your mind towards achieving your goals.
- List of different Holistic Affirmations for your over all well being.
The ThinkleBuds Journal
ThinkleBuds journal is designed for children aged 6-12 years. Journal introduces positive dialogue about concepts like gratitude, learning through failure, self-love, emotions, etc. thereby empowering children to become happier, confident & self-aware individuals.
The 160 pages journal consists of:
- 8 short stories : All the 8 topics in the journal start with a short story, introducing the topic.The story acts as a bridge for the child to understand the topic effectively.
- 85+ engaging activities : Each story is followed by interactive activities to help child explore topic further.These activities help them think out of the box & record their thoughts, emotions, likes, dislikes etc.
- Inspiring quotes & drawing pages: Journal is full of inspiring quotes & coloring pages relating to specific topics.They will act as positive affirmations & fill the child with positivity
Forgiveness Diary
Forgiving relieves you from unwanted emotions and induces positivity. Whenever you feel anxious, pen your forgiveness in the diary and open doors to happy emotions!
Forgiving relieves you from unwanted emotions and induces positivity. Whenever you feel anxious, pen your forgiveness in the diary and open doors to happy emotions!
220 x 160 X H-20 (100 page)
Daily Journal
Designed for ages 10+, this journal gives you a fun, organised space for children to write and draw their thoughts and feelings every day.
This will be the perfect space for them to – FEEL. DISCOVER. DREAM & GROW
Journal has 2 kinds of pages. Daily pages & concept pages.
Daily Pages are intended to be filled 1 per day during bedtime. These pages contain quotes, challenges, and intriguing questions which promote emotional intelligence and develop essential life skills like leadership, problem-solving, time management. It has 90 daily pages to be used for 3+ months.
Concept pages have insights on concepts such as virtues, growth mindset, resilience, positive thinking and prompts to put these into practice, the concept pages broaden the perspective of young minds.
