Journal Prompts to Give Your Diary a Jump-Start

Journal Prompts

Maybe you’ve been keeping a journal for years and are looking for a fresh idea to write about. Or maybe you have just decided to start a journal and need something to help you begin. Either way, journal prompts can provide just the nudge your mind needs to get the words flowing!

As an author, I suppose it’s obvious that I love to play with words. I also love ideas that reach beneath the surface level. I like to have my thoughts provoked.

So my goal with the following twelve prompts is to help you draw out those deep thoughts inside you and commit them to paper today!

12 Journal Prompts to Help You Start Your Diary Now!

  • What are some things that give your life meaning?
  • Who would you like to have a stronger relationship with and what might you do to grow that relationship?
  • What are your short-term and long-term goals? What are some things you want to do this month compared to things you want to do in the next few years?
  • Describe your perfect home. Where is it, what does it look like, and who do you share it with?
  • What distracts you from what’s truly important each day?
  • When you picture yourself 10 years from now, what do you want to have achieved and experienced? What would you like to accomplish by the end of your life?
  • If you decided right now that you had enough money, and that you would always have enough, what would you do with your life?
  • What does friendship mean to you?
  • What is something you can do today to grow closer to God?
  • If you have brothers or sisters, how are you similar or different from them? What about with your friends?
  • What’s the number one struggle in your life that you want to overcome?
  • When was the last time God took a bad situation in your life and turned it out for your good? What happened? How was it better in the end?

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