Having thoughts and/or feelings? These November journal prompts can create some breathing room, and help you get the supportive neural well-being benefits of writing without the pressure of productivity. In case you’d like a place to start and a gentle nudge that might open up a horizon, I’m sharing my own November journal prompts. Sometimes I journal to boost my dopamine or to break a creative freeze, but this time I’m just digging in to find fresh perspectives. I’ll be journaling daily-ish this month and I’d love to have you alongside me with these November journal prompts. Follow your pace and your curiosity. I suggest trying to give each one a minimum of ten minutes or one full page (whichever comes first.) We love a cozy breakthrough, no?
November Journal Prompts Printable
Click here for a printable .pdf file of all 30 November journal prompts.
You can also scroll down to read them on this page.
If you’d like to set a mood, here’s my journaling playlist:
November Journal Prompts
1. What’s your relationship to beginning?
2. What finish lines have you crossed recently?
3. When have you felt honestly connected to others? What might help you feel that way even more?
4. Who in history might love to have your current life? Who might hate it?
5. What feels steady and reliable?
6. What are you strongly or weakly committed to?
7. What sense (touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing) is most awake for you right now? What are all your senses noticing?
8. What’s the hottest gossip you’ve never told?
9. What softens you? Would you like more of that in your life, or less?
10. What brings out your inner fighter, and do you want more of it?
11. In the scheme of your life, how important is today?
12. What seems obvious about the world?
13. What seems impossible to really understand about the world?
14. Who (or what) might you secretly be attracted to? Any guesses about why?
15. What comes easily to you (big or small)? How could you leverage that across more areas of your life?
16. What’s hardest to do right now? What might help you do it?
17. What could you do for hours right now, if your only job was to enjoy yourself? How can you make a little time for that soon?
18. What place would you love to go back to? How can you bring some of that place’s feeling into today?
19. What helps you deal with difficult situations?
20. What should “someone like you” want? Which pieces of that do you actually want?
21. What are you looking forward to (big or small) that will likely actually happen by the end of the month? How many things can you list?
22. This prompt is an exercise by a growth-focused psychologist. Try Dr. Gay Hendricks’ suggestion and see what you turn up. “Take a few minutes right now to appreciate and celebrate you. Imagine you’re your own best friend and do an inventory of your good qualities and strengths– physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Include your contributions to others, your talents and skills, all your accomplishments, and especially your willingness to grow.” (source: “Your Big Leap Year” by Gay Hendricks, ph.D )
23. What’s at the top of your mind today? What’s the next small step will you take about it?
24. What’s lingering at the back of your mind? Among your priorities, what’s the most peaceful place for this?
25. How might you gather more of what you love around you?
26. What new specific thing can you find to love about your immediate environment in this precise moment?
27. What would you most like to learn today?
28. Who might not know how big a positive impact they’ve had on your life? (Optional: after you’ve journaled, let them know privately or acknowledge it publicly.)
29. When do you feel most alive? Do you even want more of that feeling?
30. What’s the biggest sky-high massive impossible goal in your whole mind right now? What’s something you can actually do about it today?
Those are my November journal prompts.
Maybe I’ll start doing daily November journal prompts every year?
Thanks for giving this a few minutes and I hope you found something you liked!
xo, megan
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