95 Best Journal Prompts for Self-Improvement

 

Journaling is such a powerful tool on any self-improvement journey. Daily journaling can help you understand how to level up and reach your full potential.

 

It’s easy to imagine what your dream life could look like in 1, 5 or 10 years time, however, the hard part is addressing the true reason WHY you want a certain lifestyle, career or relationship so you can achieve all of your desires. The second hard part is confronting any limiting beliefs you have around this desire, then overcoming them.

 

The prompts I’ve shared below have helped me find clarity not only around my goals but what I truly want from life.   Some prompts are ones that have resinated with me from other bloggers, and others are prompts I’ve created because it seemed to be a question I needed to think and journal about when on my own self-improvement journey.

 

If you’re new to journaling, I’ve written this dedicated blog post to what journal prompts are and how to get the best use from them.

 

I’d also suggest making the small investment into a decent journal like this one, or journal paper you can print.  You’ll also need pens that don’t bleed through the paper.

 

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How does journaling help towards self-improvement?

Just like regular journaling, there’s so many benefits for journaling for self-improvement including:

• It helps you organise your thoughts, plans and ideas of where you want to be when living your dream life
• You’ll understand where you currently are, where you want to be and how to bridge the gap to become the woman of your dreams
• You’ll identify the habits and routines you need to put in place to help you achieve your goals and become your best self.

 

95 Journal prompts for self-improvement

When using these prompts you may find it easier to take a few days to properly answer them all.  When I’m feeling in a lull or ready to make the next step in my levelling up journey, I come back to this list and journal on the prompts which speak to me the most at that time.

 

I hope you can relate to these journal prompts and they also help you on your journey of self-improvement.

 

1. How do I currently feel?
2. Am I truly happy?
3. What does self-improvement mean to me?
4. What everyday habits make me feel my best?
5. What everyday habits make me feel worst?
6. What are my current healthy habits?
7. What other healthy habits could I implement into my routine?
8. How can I implement this new habit into my week?
9. How do I feel about self-improvement?
10. Why do I want to improve myself/ my current situation?
11. What are my current goals towards self-improvement? in 30 days, 3 months, 1 year etc.
12. If I could change one thing about my life, what would it be?
13. What would be my ideal situation in relation to my finances?
14. What would be my ideal situation in relation to my relationships?
15. What would be my ideal situation in relation to my career/ business?
16. What would be my ideal situation in relation to my personal characteristics?
17. What would be my ideal situation in relation to my health/fitness?
18. What would be my ideal situation in relation to my social life/fun?
19. What would be my ideal situation in relation to my spiritual or religious journey?
20. What are my life goals?
21. How do I feel when I see these written down?
22. What is one thing I can do this week that will bring me closer to achieving one goal?
23. If I spent 30 mins everyday working on myself, how would I spend this time?
24. What are my top 1-3 priorities in life right now?
25. How do I currently include self-care as part of my weekly routine?
26. Do I want to include more self-care into my week?
27. What would my ideal self-care routine look like?
28. What are my fav things to do for self-care?
29. What would my ideal day look like?
30. Do I feel like I’m living to my true potential?
31. In which areas am I living to my true potential?
32. In which areas am I not living to my true potential?
33. From the area previously mentioned, how would I show up if I was living to my true potential?
34. What can I do or schedule tomorrow to bring me to closer to my true potential?
35. If nothing changed in your life over the next year, would you be happy?
36. What would be my ideal morning routine?
37. What would be my ideal nighttime routine?
38. What makes me excited about the future?
39. How can I step out of my comfort zone in the next year to achieve one of my goals?
40. Write down every single goal you have for yourself – whether you believe you can reach them or not.  Highlight the top 1-3 that would be a non-negotiable for you.
41. What worries or doubts do you have for the future?
42. If you did everything you said you would, what would you achieve in the next 1 year, 5 years, 10 years?
43. What can I do each day to elevate myself?
44. What can I do each day to elevate my lifestyle?
45. Where do I see myself in 1-5 years?
46. Why do I think I haven’t reached my true potential in a certain area of life?
47. How can I overcome this for the future?
48. How do I spend my spare time working towards self-improvement?
49. How would I like to spend my spare time towards self-improvement?
50. How do I take care of myself?
51. How do I know when I’m not looking after my well-being?
52. How did I better myself in the last year?
53. What is a new skill I want to learn?
54. How can I prioritise my mental health?
55. How can I prioritise my physical health?
56. What does success mean to me?
57. What is 1 goal that would stretch me but I could achieve?
58. What is a short term goal I can achieve this month?
59. How will I achieve this goal?
60. How hard am I willing to work towards my goals?
61. If I was guaranteed success, what would I aim to achieve?
62. Do my goals reflect the type of person I want to become?
63. Are my goals written down for me or to fulfil someone’s else’s thoughts about me?
64. What changes do I want to see in my life?
65. What self-development books can I read to elevate myself and my lifestyle in the next year?
66. Thinking back to the last time I really sat down and created goals, how did it go? Did I achieve them?
67. Do I feel like I’ve found my purpose?
68. What do I think are my passions and purpose?
69. How can I tell I’m close to burn out?
70. How can I prevent or overcome burn out?
71. What self-care activities do I want to start doing?
72. Do I need to consider therapy?
73. How can I turn a bad day around?
74. What I have done so far on my self-improvement journey?
75. What is holding me back from living the life I truly desire?
76. Which behaviours do I need to start doing to improve myself and my lifestyle?
77. How do I want others to describe me?
78. What hobbies do I enjoy or want to start?
79. What can I do to turn my 1 year goal into 6 months and 5 year goal into 1 year?
80. What boundaries do I need to put in place to live a happier life?
81. Write out the life of your ideal self e.g. caring friend, entrepreneur, loving mother etc
82. What are some things that inspire me to elevate myself and my everyday?
83. What is going well in my life right now?
84. What is not going well in my life and how do I want to change this?
85. How confident do I feel on a daily basis?
86. How can I increase my confidence levels?
87. What steps can I take to have my ideal career/ business?
88. What steps can I take to get the most out of my current career?
89. What helps my productivity?
90. What hinders my productivity?
91. What are my best qualities?
92. What qualities do I want to improve on?
93. If I could go back and do something different what would I do?
94. What do I need to declutter to elevate my environment?
95. What’s something I would like to do without having to set goals attached to it? i.e. just for fun

 

Self-improvement is also never ending.  You’re unlikely to come to a point where you sit back and think you’ve done it all. So come back to these prompts every 6-12 months to check in with yourself and your self-improvement journey.

 

Other posts relating to journaling:

• Journal Prompts Self-discovery
• Journal Prompts: What They Are and How to Use Them
• Journal Prompts for Self-Love
• Journal Prompts for Productivity: Live Your Most Productive Life