Morning Pages: What should I write about?
I’ve been journalling for almost 2 years now but some days I get stuck and can’t think of anything to write about.
I did a bit of searching to see if anybody had advice on solving this problem and found a few different articles:
The articles talk about different approaches to journalling and since I’m not following one particular approach I thought I’d summarise all their ideas and put them in a document that I can use. I’ve also added some of my own ones.
Here’s the list:
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Something you’re grateful for
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An unusual event
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Goals or hopes
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A past event
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Things that are stopping you achieving your goals
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Values that are important to you
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Ideas or nagging thoughts
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What did you do yesterday?
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What did you work on?
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Who did you talk to?
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What book did you read?
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What podcasts did you listen to?
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What TV shows/movies did you watch?
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Where did you go?
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What are you doing today?
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What scares you?
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Decisions you need to make/made - small or big
If you have any other ideas of what I can write about let me know in the comments. While researching for this post I noticed that Julia Cameron, the inventor of Morning Pages, has a new book out - The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life - so I’m hoping to get some ideas from there as well.
About the author
I'm currently working on short form content at ClickHouse. I publish short 5 minute videos showing how to solve data problems on YouTube @LearnDataWithMark. I previously worked on graph analytics at Neo4j, where I also co-authored the O'Reilly Graph Algorithms Book with Amy Hodler.