This month has got me thinking a little bit about how I can reflect on the positive’s from my day, week or month, what I can improve on or even, what I can stop doing that might be having a negative impact on my mental/emotional health. As a result I’m quite keen to do a look back over the last month by using journal prompts.
This isn’t new by any means, I’m sure a lot of people do this, but I know speaking personally, I can get stuck into a negative mind loop of berating and talking down to myself and I’m wondering if this regular practice might help me to re-train the way I look at my thoughts and deeds.
Some questions that I may start to incorporate into this monthly practice could be:
1. What went well this month?
2. What challenges did I face this month?
3. How did I face those challenges and what can I do differently next time?
4. What is something fun that happened this month?
5. Was I present with those I care about this month?
6. How many time did I achieve a health work life balance?
7. How did I step outside of my comfort zone?
8. Did I let fear stop me from doing something this month?
9. Where did I waste the most time?
10. Was I kind to myself this month?
I may not do all of these each month or I may try them weekly instead, but these questions are meant to be thought provoking, lightly challenging, enabling self-reflectiveness and perhaps most importantly, are designed push me to be honest with myself. Only I will ever see what I’ve written, so I owe it to myself to be straight up.
With that in mind, I’m setting a reminder in my diary for the end of the month to see how many I can do and how helpful it is.
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My Wylde 