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Night journal prompts

Free night and evening prompts to reflect on your day and notice what you want to carry forward.

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Put your phone down before you start getting ready for bed tonight and keep it down until morning.

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Before you fall asleep tonight write down one thing that happened today that you want to remember.

ActionGratitude

When you look back on today before you sleep what's the one moment you keep landing on?

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Set aside one part of your evening tonight for something you actually enjoy.

ActionFun

Before you go to sleep tonight write down one moment today when you said something you actually meant without softening it.

ActionAuthenticity

Before bed tonight write one sentence about something you want to do differently tomorrow based on how today actually went.

ActionMetacognition

Read a chapter tonight from a book or comic you loved when you were a kid.

ActionChildhood

Write down tonight the moment in today when your focus felt sharpest and what you were doing at the time.

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Set a time tonight after which you'll stop checking work messages and keep to it for the rest of the week.

ActionWork

Pack one thing away tonight that you've been leaving out because putting it away feels too final.

ActionClosure

Write down one thing you did today that your younger self would have thought was pretty cool.

ActionChildhood

Try and see what happens when you turn off all screens two hours before bed.

ActionNight

Write down one thing tonight you're grateful happened today no matter how small.

ActionSpiritual

Settle on the one intention you want to wake up with and write it where you'll see it first thing.

ActionIntention

Write down one word tonight that you want tomorrow to be shaped by.

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Before you fall asleep tonight say out loud or write down one thing that made today worth being alive for.

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