The page belongs to you and nobody can take it away! The focus of my March journal prompts: getting curious, getting free, and getting real.
If we haven’t met, I’m Megan. I’m a trained facilitator, respectful writing coach, and award-winning author. I journal daily-ish. If you’d like to join me this month, here are my Megged-up March journal prompts.
Journaling can feel like freedom. It’s free, fast, and helps gently coax us out of our usual thinking patterns. When we ask a new question, sometimes we get an exciting answer.
I suggest giving yourself at least ten minutes or one full page per prompt; whichever comes first; but please, go as long as you like.
March Journal Prompts
Click here for a printable .pdf file of all 31 March journal prompts.
Here’s my journaling playlist, if you want music to set a mood:
1. What do I love to be around?
2. Do I have more success tackling things head-on, or approaching sideways with stealth?
3. What will I never be sure about?
4. What helps me make good choices?
5. If I had to live as a plant (but retain my current full human consciousness), what plant would I choose to become?
6. When do I feel excited?
7. What will nobody ever see me do, no matter what the situation?
8. What’s some good advice I wish everyone (including me) would take?
9. What’s my relationship to repairing things?
10. What are my priorities for the next half hour?
11. Would I die for anything? If yes, what? If no, why not?
12. What’s the last thing I bought and what are all the factors that led me to buy that?
13. When has fear honestly helped me?
14. What do I really hope I can do, but am not sure I can pull off?
15. What are some of the best decisions I’ve ever made?
16. Is it more important to be ethical or to be sexy?
17. What do I trust myself to do instinctively?
18. Why am I this lonely or this connected?
19. When has reading something really helped me?
20. What part of my current life could I truly do without and never miss?
21. What shows up in my dreams a lot? (Sleep dreams, not daydreams.)
22. Who do I think is doing a great job in this world? What can I borrow about their approach?
23. Why will/won’t I make a particular mistake again?
24. Where would I go to eat the very best meal in the world?
25. How did I end up journaling in this precise instant? Why this? Why not something else?
26. How do I define “a community?”
27. What kind of person would be 100% perfectly suited by living my current life?
28. What do I hope will happen someday, but probably won’t live to see?
29. (Finish this sentence.) I’d love to have something in my life that makes me feel…
30. What does it look like to over-control… or to just let it roll?
31. What am I looking forward to in the next 48 hours that I’m pretty sure will actually happen?
Those are my March journal prompts. Thanks for giving them a look.
Keeping a journal is valuable on its own. It can also become a gateway drug to writing. Getting real with your words is good practice for anything else you want to write. Make truth a habit. Start by writing privately in a journal, build your strength and courage, then unleash your words on the world!
If you want to go beyond the privacy of your journal and give some writing to the public, 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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