My Favorite Creative Journal Prompt

How I kick things off in my notebook each week

Fifteen years ago¹, I needed an easier way to journal in my weekly scrapbook.

I hate the blank page. I am terrrrible at sitting there with nothing on the page and just telling myself to write. It just doesn't work.

So I asked myself: what would make this easy to do each week?

Making it Simple

I came up with 7² one word prompts to make journaling each week as simple and straightforward as possible.

For my weekly scrapbook pages, I wasn't looking to write long paragraphs or even long sentences of journaling. I just wanted to get down what was going on in my right now life. And to make that happen, a few one-word prompts was all I really needed.4

Keeping it simple was the key to my (continued) success.

List of 7 One-Word Prompts

• Watching

• Reading

• Listening

• Making

• Feeling

• Planning

• Loving

One of the first things I did was put these 7 prompts onto a small journaling card (3"x4") that I could print out and pick up any time.

Creating a Habit

The list of 7 one-word prompts isn't what's been keeping me going for 15+ years; it's the actual habit of pulling out a Currently List journaling card each week and filling it out.

Throughout the years, I've written my Currently List journaling cards and kept them in different places. First, it was my weekly pocket page album, then it was whatever scrapbook I was working on at the time, and for the past several years it's been my Daily Pages notebook—every single Monday.

It makes creating on a Monday so much easier—I already know what I'm going to do, and I've got a little list ready for me to fill out.

Get your own free printable Currently List Journaling card at theawesomeladiesproject.com/currently and join us in the #CurrentlyList journaling challenge.

1. JFC

2. It was actually 8 prompts at first, but I miscalculated the size and the last one got cut off, so now it’s only 7 prompts!