Ten Inspiring Journal Prompts

There are many benefits to keeping a journal, such as recording your memories, setting down your goals and resolutions, keeping track of events in your life, and so on. However, a lot of people aren't sure how to get started in keeping a journal. My suggestion would be to scour the internet for fun journal prompts to help get you started.

Here are ten journal prompts to jumpstart your journaling efforts:

1. What's your favorite season and why?
2. Have you ever been betrayed by a friend?
3. What's the biggest lie you've ever told?
4. Describe your perfect career.
5. What is your fondest memory?
6. What traits do you look for in a friend?
7. What would you like to be remembered for?
8. Who has had the biggest influence in your life?
9. What advice would you give to your younger self?
10. What would you do if you won the lottery?

For more ideas on journal prompts you can use, visit "119 Journal Prompts". In addition, you can create a journal jar and fill it with slips of paper, each containing a different prompt. For instructions on how to create a journal jar, visit my Squidoo lens "Unique Handmade Gift: A Journal Jar".

A Poem of Thankfulness

Be Thankful

Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire,
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?

Be thankful when you don't know something
For it gives you the opportunity to learn.

Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.

Be thankful for your limitations
Because they give you opportunities for improvement.

Be thankful for each new challenge
Because it will build your strength and character.

Be thankful for your mistakes
They will teach you valuable lessons.

Be thankful when you're tired and weary
Because it means you've made a difference.

It is easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are
also thankful for the setbacks.

GRATITUDE can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles
and they can become your blessings.

Author Unknown

For more gratitude quotes visit my blog post "49 Gratitude Quotes and a Poem Of Thankfulness". You can also donwload a free ebook on "114 Ways to Celebrate Life".

Five Happiness Quotes to Make Your Day

1. “The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others. — William Lyon Phelps

2. “Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.” — Arthur Rubinstein

3. “If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.” — W Wolfe

4. “I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.” — Willa Cather, My Antonia

5. “To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy . . . is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For more happiness quotes visit my post "65 Happiness Quotes".

Increase Productivity at Work: Have Some Fun

In "The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up", bestselling author Adrian Gostick and humorist Scott Christopher use science to reveal the remarkable power of humor and fun in business. They argue that there's a correlation between having fun and making money: happy people are more productive; more productivity leads to greater profits.

So how do you introduce more fun into the workplace and thereby increase your bottom line? Here are five things you can try:

1. Turn the coffee room into a "Fun Sanctuary" filled with comic books, stand-up comedy routines on audio tapes, toys, and other fun props. Toys can include silly putty, Legos, crayons, wooden blocks, and even nerf ball guns.

2. Every Monday send out a riddle by email and give a small prize to the first person to solve it.

3. Create a bulletin board and have everyone hang up a picture of when they were babies. Better yet, have everyone bring in a picture of their pet and have a contest to see who can match the pets with their owners.

4. Bring in a cake once a month and sing "Happy Birthday" to all those in the office who had a birthday that month.

5. Do something together outside of the office once a month, such as trying out a new restaurant, going to a pub, or having a barbeque.

For more ideas on ways to have fun at work, visit my blog post "Have Fun at Work and Increase the Bottom Line".