Self Reflection Journal Prompts: Become Aware of Self Sabotaging Behavior With Journaling
You can use self reflection journal prompts in addition to free writing to find out where in life you might be secretly sabotaging yourself and your dreams.
For this week, I have one of those for you to write about, so you don’t have to make the same mistakes I made.
If you have no idea what I am talking about, then it might help to read my guide for beginners first.
Do you understand what I mean now and are you ready? AWESOME.
As explained in the introduction, I will first give as much context as possible to help beginners with some inspiration. I do this to make it a bit easier for them to answer the question in depth for themselves. Because I know a lot of them find it hard to think of something to write about.
Alright, let’s start ->
This week, I noticed again that whenever I sleep badly, I tend to add negative habits to my life. And once I can sleep better, I slowly remove them and add good HABITS.
It’s not something I normally do on purpose, but it slowly and secretly creeps into my life. I don’t always notice it right away, because of the tiredness and lack of concentration caused by the bad sleep.
Shouldn’t I be able to notice it right away, if I am journaling about my day every day?
Journaling every day definitely helps me become aware of things a lot faster, but it can be tricky sometimes. Change can be very subtle and sometimes I only notice it after a while, especially when I am too focused on other things in my journal.
Anyways, let me tell you what negative habit I added…
When I am tired, I try to not fall asleep too early. Because when I do that, I tend to wake up in the middle of the night, unable to sleep anymore.
So, sometimes to survive that situation, I somehow end up going down the YouTube rabbit hole, watching all kinds of videos with a lot of drama in them.
(My 1000 IQ brain: “I have no idea why this video appeared on my YouTube feed, who this person in this thumbnail is or what they did. But I definitely need to know what the dark secret is that they have been hiding from everyone, right NOW.”)
These weeks in particular, I watched funny react videos about drama that happened in the world. They are very interesting and entertaining to watch. But later, I also noticed that I became more negative, even though I want to be a POSITIVE person.
Funnily enough, I only realized it when more drama started to happen in my own life. I could notice it in my exaggerated response to the drama and that I was attracting even more drama because of my behavior.
The other thing I watched was a TV series that a lot of people recommended to me. It was a very good show, which somehow was able to make you feel this strong, cozy, nostalgic feeling for the 80’s.
It made me crave going back in time to live in the 80’s, the good old times. But it also made me paranoid letting my children bike alone outside, because of potential dangers like monsters.
The thing is, I don’t have kids… and monsters don’t exist….
(And technically, I also never lived in the 80’s. But I have played Pac-Man and have been in those exciting, flashy and colorful arcades before though. That must count for something, right?)
One of my self reflection journal prompts for you this week
But how do you think this paranoia affected my journey to my DREAMS?
It made me doubt things a lot more and think the worst of things, for no good reason. This made me become my own obstacle towards achieving my goals. Nothing special changed in my routine, except now there was this additional artificial paranoia within me.
I noticed it in my thoughts and the things I wrote in my journal.
What did I eventually do when I noticed that?
I restricted the amount of darker content I was watching again. Of course, watching some is fine and entertaining for me, but I also wanted to balance it more with light, fun and uplifting content.
This change resulted in me becoming less distracted by unnecessary negative thoughts, being more at peace and overcoming self sabotage…
So to conclude, here’s one of my self reflection journal prompts for you this week to help you notice the above faster than I did:
“What kind of content am I consuming?”
“Can it influence me? What influence does it have on me? How does it influence my thoughts? What influence does it have on my dreams? And more importantly, why do the 80’s have such awesome, chill music?”
Thank you for reading and…
If you have dreams you want to achieve…
CREATE YOUR OWN LUCK!
P.S. This is only one of many ways you can influence yourself without you noticing it. I will write about others whenever they come on my path again. So, stay tuned.