Journal Mondays Writing Prompt
For the next fifteen minutes (or longer) explore the experience of laughter in your life. Do you laugh easily? Can you laugh at yourself? How do you react to others laugh at you?
For the next fifteen minutes (or longer) explore the experience of laughter in your life. Do you laugh easily? Can you laugh at yourself? How do you react to others laugh at you?
It’s the first of February. It’s cold outside. Journal about things you do to keep warm in February.
Journal about ten reasons why you should not run with scissors — five serious and five ridiculous. You never know you could need a list like this some day.
For the next fifteen minutes journal about an imaginary friend you had as a child and how people reacted. If you never had an imaginary friend, make one up now.
In your journal explore your spiritual faith by dividing your life into stages (this may be more writing for some than others depending on how old you are right now) — grade school, teenager, young adult, parent, retired, senior. If you haven’t reached a stage yet reflect on what your spiritual faith would be like.
Journal about a time you made someone do something they did not want to do. Explore the who, when, what, why, where, and how of the situation.
Today, write a letter to yourself at fourteen with at least ten things you know now that you wish you knew then. Tomorrow, write a letter to your future self at eighty with at least ten dreams or hopes for the future.