Answering these four questions can help you overcome cognitive distortions and see issues in new ways. Aim for about half a page for each one.<ol><li> What happened objectively?</li><li>What did I make it mean?</li><li>How would I comfort a friend I loved if this happened to them?</li><li>How is this the best thing that has ever happened to me?</li></ol>

Journaling For When Bad Things Happen

Fill a page with bullet points that list all of your obligations and everything you want to do.Audit your list by asking these questions:<ol><li>What is non-negotiable?</li><li>What is exciting?</li><li>What on my list, if done, would make everything else easier?</li><li>What of these, if the opportunity was taken away from me, would I fight to get back?</li><li>What 20% of the activities are producing 80% of the results?</li></ol>

Journaling For Your To Do List & Direction

The two techniques for journaling for clarity involve essentially writing down every thought that comes to mind.<ol><li>Sit down in one session and write out the thoughts you’re having.</li><li>Keep a notebook and jot down every new thought that comes to mind. This is considered more challenging.</li></ol>

Journaling For Clarity

Use these three techniques to break out of an obsessive or fixated state. E.g. not being able to stop worrying.<ol><li>Imagine six impossible things. E.g. a camel and his best friend skating over an exploding pigeon.</li><li>Write down how you can make someone else happy right now. Aim for about 5-10 bullet points.</li><li>Write down something in your immediate environment that you never noticed before. Aim for about 5-10 bullet points.</li></ol>

Journaling For Breaking Your Mindset

Here are the five most important questions you should be answering as you reflect on your day:<ol><li>What excited me?</li><li>What drained me of energy?</li><li>What did I learn?</li><li>What are 10 things I’m grateful for?</li><li>How do I keep moving forward?</li></ol>Aim for about 5-10 bullet points for each question.

Journaling For Daily Reflections

Your life is like an x, y graph, in the sense that a single point is not enough to establish a clear direction.Answering these questions should help with finding more of the points on your “graph.”<ol><li>What did I want five years ago? Use bullet points and separate this into categories.</li><li>What do I want now?</li><li>What do I think I’ll want in five years time?</li><li>If I knew I couldn’t fail, what would I do?</li></ol>

Journaling For Direction In Life

This form of journaling can help you identify and overcome your anxiety.<ul><li>Divide the page into three columns, and label the first “fears,” the second “fixes,” and the third “the outcome that I would bet on.”</li><li>In the first column, break your anxiety down into its true fears/causes.</li><li>In the second column, write down a basic strategy to overcome each fear.</li><li>In the third column, write down the objective most possible outcome.</li></ul>

Journaling For Anxieties

<ol><li>Clearly define the decision/problem.</li><li>What are the options? Aim for about 10, unless the problem is pretty binary.</li><li>If I had to make this decision in 60 seconds, what would I choose? Start a timer and choose an option.</li><li>Could I live with this outcome? Yes or no, why a few points as to why.</li><li>What would this look like if it were easy?</li></ol>

Journaling For Decision Making

This form of journaling is for people trying to really improve themselves and their lives.<ul><li>Divide the page into three columns, and label the first “actions,” the second “the worst version of myself,” and the third “the best version of myself.”</li><li>At the end of the day, write down everything you did in the actions column.</li><li>Decide whether each action would be closer to something the best or worst version of yourself would do.</li><li>Score yourself, which each action belonging to either column giving it a point. E.g. drinking a beer=1 point for the worst version column.</li></ul>

Journaling For Habits & Lifestyle Audit

Here’s a summary of struthless’s video on several useful techniques you can use while journaling.

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9 Journalling Techniques that I've come across/up with over the past 12 years (using the double L spelling coz I'm Australian)

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