Happy New Year Journalling Prompts: Writing with Purpose Newsletter

This newsletter is short this week.

Now that the frenzy of another Christmas has passed, I wanted to check in and wish you the very best for 2025.

What is your word for the new year?

I’ve chosen ‘optimism’.

The Oxford Dictionary defines optimism as ‘hopefulness and confidence about the future or the success of something.’

I am a glass-half-full (or maybe three-quarters) kind of girl, but sometimes I still beat myself up unnecessarily and feel as though I must always be physically or mentally ‘on the go’.

This is far from accurate, and slowing down during 2024 has helped me to realise what really matters.

I sense something waiting: a door about to open or a stone ready to turn. I’m certainly hopeful that 2025 will bring success to my fiction writing endeavour. This is my big goal and something I’ll put all my vision-boarding and manifestation efforts into starting on the first of next month. I’m also confident that my journalling and creative writing workshops will take off. I'm off to a busy start, with three more library sessions already in the diary.

Journalling Prompts

• How do you feel at the start of a new year?
• What thoughts do you have?
• What actions do you take?

If you keep a regular journal, I encourage you to look back and see what you wrote at the start of 2024, 2023 and before.

• What trends can you spot in your goal setting or desires?
• Are you always committed or do your efforts peter out?
• What can you do differently this year to ensure you optimise success?

I would love to leave you with one last prompt, encouraging creativity and an optimistic approach. Have a go and let me know the outcome by replying to this email.

I’d also love to know what your 2025 word is.

• Imagine a character who wakes up on New Year's Day with no memory of the past year. What adventures or challenges do they face as they piece together their life?

Three cheers for an incredible 2025. You deserve the best.

Love & energy

Anna

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