Wellbeing
Reflection page Template
Four questions rather than a blank page, which is where journalling usually stops.
Four steps
How to print a reflection page
- 1
Start from this form
Opens on the reflection page: Date, What actually happened today, What took more out of you than you expected and the rest.
- 2
Put your own heading on it
Replace "Reflection" with a name, a business or a date range.
- 3
Set the row height
16 rows at 6 mm fits more in; 14 mm suits a form filled in by hand.
- 4
Print or save as PDF
What took more out of you than you expected is the line to get right.
Who prints this
Anyone who has bought a journal, written in it for four days, and then never opened it again.
The field that decides whether it works
What took more out of you than you expected. It is the question people answer honestly, and honest answers are what make the page worth coming back to.
Why it is laid out this way
Four prompts and no open space, deliberately. A blank page asks you to decide what to write before you write anything at all, and that decision is where most journalling stops.
What is on the sheet
5 sections, in this order: Date; What actually happened today; What took more out of you than you expected; What went better than you expected; One thing to carry into tomorrow. Set the row height anywhere between 6 and 14 mm across its 16 ruled rows, put your own heading at the top, and find the reflection page alongside 4 other forms on the wellness journal page.
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