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Journaling Prompts

Delve into introspection and enrich your journaling experience by pondering these thought-provoking questions designed to spark self-discovery and reflection.

Your early years

  1. When and where were you born?
  2. How was it different from the world today? How is it different from where you live now?
  3. What is your earliest memory?
  4. What are the earliest memories of your parents, siblings, other family members, or where you lived?
  5. Did you have a pet? Why, or why not?
  6. What sort of relationship did you have with your parents? In what ways do you consider them to have been good or bad parents?
  7. Which of your parents are you most like, and in what way(s)?
  8. What is your mother’s background?And your father’s?
  9. Do you have any siblings? Did you get on well as children? And later?
  10. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? What were your early passions or dreams? Did you pursue them?
  11. What were your favourite toys, books, TV shows? Which character(s) did you want to be? Music? Bands?
  12. What is your happiest childhood memory? Your saddest?
  13. Who was your first best friend? Did they influence your future life?
  14. What incidents from childhood had most impact on the adult you grew to become?

Your school days

  1. Do you remember your first day of school?
  2. Was learning to read and write easy or difficult for you?
  3. Who was your favourite teacher? Your least favourite teacher?
  4. Which subjects did you excel at, and which were your worst?
  5. Did you play any sports or instruments?
  6. Were you part of a clique or group at school?
  7. Did you have a best friend? Are you still in touch with them?
  8. Did any of your schoolmates influence your future life? How?
  9. How has schooling changed since you were a child?
  10. What do you wish school had taught you (that it didn’t teach you)?
  11. What did you learn about yourself through your experiences at school?
  12. Was your high school graduation a significant event for you?
  13. Has education been an important aspect of your life? In what way(s)?
  14. Did you do a Trade or go to University.

Your teenage years and early adulthood

  1. What did your parents do that annoyed you when you were a teenager?
  2. What is your best memory from your teenage years? And your worst?
  3. When did you leave school, and why?
  4. What was your first job?
  5. When did you learn to drive? Who taught you? When did you buy your first car?
  6. Did you have a close friend or group of friends after you left school?
  7. What were you passionate about when you were in your teens and early twenties?
  8. What was the wildest party you attended / had?
  9. Did you have an eighteenth or a twenty-first birthday party? Who came, and what was it like?
  10. What plans for the future did you have at that time?
  11. Do you remember your first experience(s) of feeling like an adult?
  12. What did you imagine ‘the future’ would be like? How was it different from our world today?
  13. How did it shape your childhood and teenage years? Did you rebel against your faith?
  14. Did you do anything reckless when you were young? Did you regret it later? Do you regret it now?

Your Romantic Life

  1. When did you first experience feelings of affection.
  2. When did you first start dating?
  3. What did your parents think about you dating? Or about your first partner?
  4. When did you meet your husband / wife / partner (if applicable)?
  5. What first attracted you to him / her / them?
  6. What was your early relationship like?
  7. Can you remember a time when you felt truly loved?
  8. How did your marriage, or long-term relationship, change your life? Did it affect your career?
  9. Is your partner your best friend? Why, or why not?

Your work life

  1. What was your first job?
  2. How much were you paid?
  3. What did you spend your pay on?
  4. Why did you leave your first job?
  5. The experienced you leaned in your career
  6. Information people can use
  7. Was your working life different from the way you’d imagined it would be?
  8. What do you count as your primary career successes?
  9. What was your working life like? Did you get along with your colleagues?
  10. Did (or does) your career make you happy?

Your experiences of parenthood and/or maturity

  1. Did you always want to have children?
  2. What did becoming a parent mean to you?
  3. What was it like being a mother or father when your children were young? How was it different from today?
  4. What are your favourite memories from when your children were young?
  5. What are your favourite memories of family life?
  6. What are some of the rituals that have defined your family life?
  7. Are there any pivotal experiences that led to your maturity as a person?
  8. Have you made any choices that significantly changed your life?

Your beliefs, values and personal perspective

  1. Are there any philosophers, writers or thinkers whose ideas significantly shaped your thinking?
  2. Has religion shaped your life, and in what way(s)?
  3. Do you have any regrets?
  4. In what ways do you feel successful in life?
  5. Have you had any experiences of very good or very bad luck?
  6. What sacrifices have you made in your life and why?
  7. Are there many/any things you wish you’d done differently?
  8. What are your most embarrassing moments?
  9. What has been the most significant challenge of your life? How did you cope? What did you learn from that experience?
  10. If you could go back in time and change one thing about your past, what would it be?
  11. What have you done that you’ve never thought you would do?
  12. Who has had the greatest impact on your life?

Your legacy

  1. What advice would you give to your eighteen-year-old self today?
  2. Do you have any mottos or guiding principles that you live by?
  3. What would you want your great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren to know about you?
  4. Do you feel as though you have made a positive difference in the world? How?
  5. Which of your long-term goals have you attained?
  6. If you could change one thing about the world today, what would it be?

Miscellaneous

  1. If you could invite three people to dinner, dead or alive, who would they be?
  2. What are the three words that describe you best?
  3. Have you travelled a lot? What are some of your favourite places?
  4. Where haven’t you been that you’d like to go? What place would you most like to return to, and why?
  5. Are there any books, films, music that are enduring favourites, and why?
  6. What do your pet peeves reveal about you?
  7. What do your tastes reveal about you? What foods do you like and dislike?
  8. Do clothes matter to you?
  9. Do you collect any particular items?

Hopefully, a few of these questions have piqued your interest, and assisted you to begin your Journal.

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