Hello, DIYers!

It’s a new year! As we push forward into 2023, this is always a wonderful time to begin considering where you would like to be a year from now. So often, we set unrealistic resolutions, simply stating things that we wish would happen rather than making a direct effort to make them happen. If you’d like to make sure that you’re putting in the work, you might consider checking out some of these journaling prompts to help you get there!

These prompts will have you sitting more deeply in your hopes and dreams for the new year, urging you to consider how you will achieve them, what is realistic, and how you can measure your successes. Check them out!

Happy New Year!

Reflect: 5 Decisions You Made Last Year that Helped You Become a Better Person

Each day offers many opportunities to make choices that either reflect the life we are working towards or reinforce the bad habits we are trying to get rid of. What moments can you recognize that you made positive choices?!

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Travel Reflection 

Did you do any traveling over the last year? Where did you go?! What did you find out about yourself on the way? What did you learn about the world that you’d never want to forget?

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What Are Your Top 3 Memories from the Last Year?

What would you never want to forget about last year? Write about it!

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What Did You Learn About Yourself Over the Last Year?

This is a great way for you to recognize growth!

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What New Things Did You Try Last Year? What Will You Try This Year?

Trying new things is a great way to grow! What have you done recently and what are you intending to do moving forward?

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What Came Into Your Life that You Are Grateful For?

Taking a moment to reflect on things that you are grateful for is so important! What came into your life over the last year that made you feel grateful? This might be a person, a pet, a new job, or something else!

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Who Did You Lean on Last Year? 

Writing about who or what you leaned heavily on last year to get you through whatever life threw at you is so important! It will help you to value that relationship and recognize the relationships that matter the most! As a bonus, reflect on how you were able to help those people as well!

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Write About a Memory That Makes You Laugh 

Laughter is the best medicine! Reflect on a moment (or a few moments) that made you laugh last year!

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How Did You Feel About Last Year? 

Which words would you use to describe how you felt last year? Were you often stressed? Overwhelmed? Happy? Sad? Name 10 of the feelings that seemed to be most relevant to your last year! Be honest with yourself, and then consider if you would like to see any changes this time next year!

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Concert and Event Reflection 

Did you do anything fun this year?! Go to events, concerts, plays, musicals, fairs, or festivals? Reflect on all of the fun things you did! You can even gather up ticket stubs or other photos to add into this journal entry!

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List Your Current Strengths 

What are your current strengths and how do they help you in your life?! Even more important, how will they help you as you move on into the next year?

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Rate Your Happiness in All Hours of Your Life on a Scale of 1-10!

This is a fabulous prompt that asks you to really consider the multi-faceted parts of your life! Where could you stand to see improvement?

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Write Out the Goals for All Aspects of Your Life

Use a journal, planner, vision board, or bullet journal to add a page that covers the goals you’d like to set for all areas of your life this year. It makes for a great quick reference and reminder!

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What Area of Your Life Requires the Most Focus This Year?

Give this some serious thought! This prompt goes great after a period of reflection on the last year or a couple of years.

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What is Something New You’d Like to Experience in the New Year?

Would you like to travel somewhere new? Put yourself out there in your career or with a hobby? Start a business? Form a band? Learn a language?! Pick anything you’d like! If your mind is coming up blank, check out this list below!

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Bullet Journal Self-Care Goals with Sketches 

Not much of a writer? That’s okay! You can sketch out your plans and goals if you prefer!

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What are 3 Habits You’d Like to Leave Behind this Year? What are 3 Habits You’d Like to Pick Up?

Which habits would you like to pick up and which would you like to leave with last year? It may not be a perfectly linear journey, but by taking active steps to improve you’ll end up better off next year!

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How Will You Treat Yourself Well This Year?

This is a fantastic question to ask yourself! While you’re writing, be specific! This way, if you feel yourself being hard on yourself, you can return to this page for a reminder of the ways that you SHOULD be treating yourself in order to be mindful and caring to YOU! You might consider saying that you will journal on a regular basis, you will take time to read in the bath, or drink more tea!

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What Are Your Physical Health Goals and How Will You Achieve Them?

Do you have physical health goals as well? What are they? Can you make yourself a motivation board or photo album that will help keep you focused? What happens when you are having a rough day? Do you have a motto to help keep you on track?!

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Write a Love Letter to Yourself 

Think about who you are and who you have become up to this moment and leave the negative self-talk behind! Write yourself a love letter to yourself in this coming year to help you feel strong, capable, and ready to take on 2023! If you need some tips on how to do this, check out the link below!

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What Do You Feel is Limiting Your Potential in Life?

This is a difficult prompt. It urges you not to simply make excuses but asks that you really consider what is standing in the way between you and the life that you’d like to be living. The reasons may be outside sources, no doubt. But I would challenge you to try and think of making a list of internal factors that may be standing in your way as well!

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Do Any of Your Relationships Need Improvement? How Will You Go About Improving Them?

Thinking about your relationships and considering if any of them could be strengthened is a fantastic way to help set important goals for your interpersonal life in the new year!

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What Are Your Mental Health Goals?

Protecting your mental health is important! Make sure to consider what types of mental health goals you will set for yourself! These might include getting more comfortable with setting boundaries or confronting conflict, seeking out a therapist, making sure to take much-needed time to meditate or engage in self-care, etc.

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What is Your Mantra or Positive Affirmation for the New Year?

Do you have a mantra or an affirmation that will get you through the next year when times get harder? Think about it! If you can’t come up with one on your own you can look some up for inspiration!

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Think About Your Ideal Life 

Sit with your fantasy about your ideal life… what would that look like realistically? You might choose to write it out or draw it out such as in the example below. There’s no right or wrong way to do it as long as it is helping you to sit with your fantasy and determine how you can make it a reality. What steps do you need to take?!

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How Do You Define Success? What Does Success Look Like for You?

Success can look like many things to many people, but the only opinion that matters is your own! So what do you think success looks like? How will you know when you’ve achieved it?

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How will You Face and Overcome Burnout or Lack of Motivation with Your New Year Goals?

Think of the day that you set your New Years goals as one of the BEST days. What happens on the worst? Come up with a compromise that will help you stay focused even when things aren’t going as planned! For instance, if you’ve agreed that each day you would like to exercise for 30 minutes, perhaps the ‘burnout’ alternative might be that you at least take a 10-minute walk! By having a plan in place you will set yourself up for success even on the toughest of days! You can always take a quick walk no matter where you are, you can even pace inside for 10 minutes to get some steps in! You can find some tips on how to avoid New Years resolution burn out at the link below!

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Plan Your Year with a Drawing 

Fabulous!

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Write Out Your Ideal Day in Great Detail and Date it for One Year in the Future! 

Manifest the perfect life by writing about it as if it were a journal entry!

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What are the Daily Non-Negotiables That You Will Set for Yourself?

What are you planning to do every single day?! Reflect with gratitude? Stretch when you wake up? Say a prayer before bed? Which are the most important things to have in each one of your days!? There are more suggestions below!

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Important Dates to Remember 

Try expressing this with a drawing!

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