My HONEST Thoughts

Everybody has their little notebook, right? Like, the notebook where they write everything in, whether it's journaling, whether it is a to-do list, whether it's random thoughts or studying or whatever.

Like, whatever it might be, everyone has that notebook, right? Like, we're just writing whatever we need to down in it.

And about six months ago, I kind of was like, "Right, I really wanna start trying to journal." Did I do that? No.

Sometimes I do sit there and, like, say if I'm in the park or whatever, I'll pull out my book and kind of note down my stream of thoughts, which I find really enjoyable and does serve me sometimes, um, when sometimes I just wanna put pen to paper, get off a screen, like, and engage in my thoughts, 'cause I do think that's important sometimes.

Um, but I am not an active journaler, which I'm so fine with.

But I just thought to myself about six months ago, "I'm gonna write down some prompts to help me journal when I don't just wanna sit there and do and write down my stream of thoughts," because sometimes just writing down, like, what you're doing or whatever it might be, might not be getting you anything for...

Like, you might not be getting anything from it.

So I was like, "I'm gonna write down, I'm gonna do some research." I did some research and I wrote down some prompts, and I have not answered a singular one of them in the six months they've been in my notebook.

And I do honestly mean to, but I just thought the prompts that I wrote down felt like really good prompts.

I remember writing them down and being like, "Yeah," like, "these are good." Like, these are gonna be helpful for me to journal without being super overwhelming, and I can just sort of answer them in my own words.

And I thought maybe you guys might have that same thing of, like, what do I even write about? Like, I need some prompts.

And I just thought since I haven't even answered them off my own terms anyway, perhaps I could do a sort of little live out-loud journaling session where I'm answering these prompts, and perhaps you could make note of the prompts yourself or even throughout this episode you could do your own sort of internal thinking answering these prompts to see how it sort of feels for you.

And if anything comes up or, yeah, even if, like I said, you just wanna write them down and save them or whichever ones align with you.

Like, maybe you only like a couple, maybe you wanna use them all, whatever.

But I thought I could sort of answer them and we could do some journaling out loud.

And I guess journaling is meant to be there for you to use however feels good.

And so if writing something down doesn't come naturally to you, remember that it is absolutely fine to say things out loud or even just to say things in your head.

Like, it doesn't have to be pen to paper.

If you have written down a bunch of prompts, you've got rid of all your screens, and you're sat on your own, you could so easily just in your head answer each prompt.

The point of journaling is just to simply sort of engage with your own thoughts and start to understand it and unpick your thought process a bit and, and just understand yourself, right? And so however that works for you is absolutely fine.

You can do that in your own voice in your head.

You can do it out loud with your voice.

You can do it with, um, pen to paper.

You can do it on your notes page on your laptop, on your phone, whatever feels most natural and effective for you, and maybe each time you do it might be a different way, and that's okay.

Okay.