✦Wellbeing · 10 recordsStart journalling

Journalling stops because of the blank page and the expectation that it should be profound. This keeps it to five minutes, gives you three prompts to fall back on, and asks for nothing except that it happens.

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Goal

Sixty nights of writing something Month 2

Five minutes. No requirement that it be any good.

Make it happen Week 3

Attached to something I already do at night.

  • Decide the time and where the notebook livesDo firstDay 3
  • Write three prompts to fall back onDo firstDay 7
  • Write on seven consecutive nightsWeek 2

Keep it Month 2

Past the point where it stops being novel.

  • Read back the first fortnightWeek 4
  • Two months in, decide whether to keep the promptsMonth 2

Routines

  • Write for five minutesdaily
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The blank page is the obstacle

Not a lack of things to say. Three standing questions to fall back on removes the entire problem on the nights when nothing comes.\n\nFive minutes, because anything that feels like a writing session gets skipped on a tired evening — which is exactly when it is worth most.

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Whatever the prompt says on the days nothing comes. The blank page is the actual obstacle, not a lack of things to say, which is why this plan supplies three standing questions rather than trusting inspiration.
Five minutes. Anything that feels like a writing session gets skipped on a tired evening, and a tired evening is exactly when it is worth most.
No. Whichever you will actually do is the right one, and the plan does not care — the only thing it asks for is the same time each day, because that is what makes it happen at all.
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