Well, hello there. It's Morgan Harper-Nichols here and welcome to the show. Today's episode,

I'm going to be sharing with you three different unconventional, non-traditional journal prompts

that I use to help myself reflect. Now, reflection and taking time to reflect has many benefits. And in my personal life,

I have found that some of the major benefits are, number one, it just helps me realize how far

I have come or what I've been doing because it's so hard to see in real time what's happening in

our life if there are patterns or themes or just oh wow I didn't realize that I seemed to be

really into that this year or I didn't realize that that year of my life I was doing a lot of

X, Y and Z. It's a lot. It's really hard to see that stuff in real time. So

reflection allows you to be able to go back and kind of get a consensus. Not that it's going to be

some all defining aha moment, but it just creates space in your life. So when you're in the present

moment and you're feeling like things aren't

really connecting or you're not quite able to make sense of where you are, you know that future

you is going to be able to look back on this moment. So that's a rhythm, a practice that I've created

in my life. And that's why I try to make time for reflection

whenever I have a birthday coming up, or it's the end of the year, or if there's some

other big season of transition that's happening in my life, it could be a great opportunity

to reflect. Another benefit of reflection and journaling is just a great opportunity to reflect. Another benefit of reflection and and journaling is just a great

way to reflect. It is to look for patterns in language and not just words, but even visual language. So whether

you are an artist or not, when you start going through your phone's camera rolls,

you can start to see different patterns like, wow, there's a lot of pictures of me with this person,

or I took a lot of screenshots of this particular thing.

And these are all little hints as to what you have been

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