Free resources for learning how to journal
Journal templates built from the journals people like Marcus Aurelius, Benjamin Franklin and Julia Cameron kept, plus articles about keeping a journal. Each template says whether the prompts are their words or ours. Try one on paper tonight, or set it as your prompts in Steps.
Start Here — 2 articles, read in order
Articles 12
All 12 articles →Articles about keeping a journal, and the people who kept one. Every claim names its source, and someone checks each page before it goes up.
Gratitude in the Bible
What the Bible teaches about gratitude
How to Keep a Prayer Journal
What a prayer journal is and how to keep one
Gratitude in World Religions
How five traditions train gratitude
Comparison Is the Thief of Joy
Theodore Roosevelt never said it. Marcus Aurelius wrote the oldest version of the cure, Quote Investigator traced where the line actually came from, and the research on gratitude and envy points somewhere better than "stop comparing yourself to other people".
Gratitude vs Thankfulness: What the Difference Actually Is
Most answers to this question are invented on the spot and contradict each other. What McCullough's four facets, the moral-emotion account, and the older words todah and eucharisteo actually say about how gratitude, thankfulness and appreciation differ.
What Is Gratitude?
Gratitude is noticing that something good came from outside you. Where the feeling came from in evolutionary terms, why Trivers and Nowak describe it as bookkeeping, why it feels like a debt, and why some people find it far easier than others.
Journal templates 7
All 7 templates →Each one says who kept it, whether the prompts are their words or ours, and when it does not work.
