These daily June journal prompts ask you to look closer. Reflect, clarify, and enjoy yourself on the page..
In the words of the great Anais Nin: “In the journal I am at ease.”
If we haven’t met, I’m Megan. I’m a trained facilitator, respectful writing coach, and award-winning author. I journal daily-ish. It’s not magic, but I think that making time for this reflective practice makes me a kinder writer and a better person. If you’d like to try a few new ideas and make your own journaling time this month, here’s my Megged-up list of June journal prompts.
I suggest giving yourself at least ten minutes or one full page per prompt, but go as long as you like!
June Journal Prompts
Click here for a printable .pdf file of all 30 June journal prompts.
1. 1. What do I want to start or finish?
2. How much value do I put on things being unique?
3. What part of my life is changing slowly?
4. Would I rather have fins, feathers, or fur?
5. When has someone trusted me?
6. What’s a good way to make decisions?
7. When I see a trailer, what makes me want to see the whole movie?
8. What helps me collaborate well?
9. What assumptions might I be making about myself?
10. What’s my favorite kind of furniture?
11. What’s made me laugh recently?
12. Which four people would I choose to be trapped on an island with?
13. How’s my balance of excitement vs calm these days?
14. Why do I get out of bed?
15. What connections are meaningful to me?
(psst… if you want mood music to help you focus, here’s my personal journaling playlist:
ok, back to the prompts…)
16. What can I try loving more deeply?
17. When have I been especially resilient?
18. Who knows me best and why?
19. After waking up from sleep, what cool dreams have I remembered?
20. What (if anything) do I feel should simply be banned from this plane of existence?
21. What desires of mine have already been fulfilled?
22. What colors am I surrounded by?
23. How might distraction be useful in my life?
24. What might be my theme song, or playlist of songs, for this exact moment?
25. What’s a place I’d love to teleport to right now? How vividly can I describe it in words?
26. What could I look at for hours?
27. What would I do with exactly three million dollars, if I had to spend it all in the next fifteen minutes?
28. What’s something I’d like people to remember about me?
29. The most vital thing I can do now is…
30. What’s my relationship to surprise?
Those are my June journal prompts. Thanks for giving them a look.
Journaling is its own reward, but if you discover something on the page you want to share… I hope you will follow that impulse. Getting real with your words in private is good practice for anything else you want to write. Make truth a habit. Find your style of how you love to put words together. Then, if you want to, bring it into the world.
If you want to go beyond the privacy of your journal and make a bigger impact with your writing, I’m available to give you f*ckin’ friendly, majorly honest sliding-scale creative writing coaching. Get your ideas into the world.
xo, megan
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