Below are 6 journal prompts for you to explore, one for each dimension of your perspective.
Personal History
History is filled with countless versions of the world we've come to know today.
If you could step into any time period, which one would you choose and why?
Environment
I always wonder why
birds stay
in the same place
when they can fly
anywhere on the earth.
Then I ask myself
the same question.
— Harun Yahya
If you have found yourself staying in one place (whether it be physically, emotionally, or mentally), what has been holding you there?
Beliefs
Beliefs are formed in the absence of certainty. I often wonder if having definitive answers would bring me peace or completely reshape everything I thought I knew.
If you could know the absolute truth to one question, what question would it be?
Emotions
In The 5AM Club, Robin Sharma states that change is "hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end."
I think the same is true for experiencing difficult emotions.
Emotions like rejection, shame, guilt, grief, anger, and resentment are hard to sit with. Expressing them is messy—we may not always know how to process them or where to direct such big feelings. But if we take the time to truly understand them, they can bring us closer to ourselves and to the person we want to be.
We have to move through them to reach the beauty and peace that lies on the other side.
What is an emotion you've struggled to face? How can you move through it to reach the other side?
Relationships
We often pin people down to a version of themselves that they once were, as if that is who they will always be.
Is there anyone in your life you’ve held to a past version of themselves? How can you see them for who they are now, rather than who they once were?
Identity
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." — Pablo Picasso
What parts of yourself have you had to destroy to make room for who you're becoming?
Until next week,
Sadie Sanchez
Author of DIMENSIONS