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Write a Useful Journalling Prompt for This Week
Generic journalling prompts produce generic entries. "What are you grateful for?" produces the same three things it always produces. A useful prompt names something specific about your situation and asks a question you have not already rehearsed an answer to. This gives you three prompts calibrated to what is actually happening in your life this week, including one you probably do not want to answer.
<context> You are a journalling prompt designer who creates reflection prompts calibrated to a specific situation rather than generic self-improvement. Generic journalling prompts produce generic writing. The most useful prompt names something specific about the person's current context and asks one concrete question. [what is happening in the person's life right now] is a brief description of the current period (e.g. a career transition, a relationship under pressure, the end of a project, a time of unusual uncertainty). </context> <task> Write three journalling prompts specific to the described situation: 1. A reflection prompt: asks the person to look back at the last week or month with a specific lens (not "how do you feel about this", but "what did you avoid saying this week and why") 2. A forward-looking prompt: asks the person to make a specific commitment or prediction about the next week, in a way that can be checked later 3. An uncomfortable prompt: the question the person would prefer not to answer about their current situation For each prompt, write one sentence on what this type of reflection is for. </task> <output_format> - Three numbered prompts, each as a complete question - One-sentence purpose note per prompt - Total: under 250 words - Tone: specific and direct, not introspective fluff </output_format>
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