The Best Journals for Self Improvement

Use these inspired notebooks to help accomplish your personal goals for 2022.

January 06, 2022

By: Sonia Harmon

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New Year, New Journal

Whatever your personal goals may be for the year, these journals can help you be your best self.

Practice Self-Care

This wellness planner is full of tips for self-care and will help you stay organized while tracking whatever goals you want to set for yourself. It also includes fun guides, cute stickers and advice from female experts on topics like nutrition, exercise and body positivity.

BUY IT: Ban.do, $30.00

Start and End Your Day with Gratitude

The Five-Minute Journal encourages you to begin and end each day on a positive note. You start the day by writing what you’re grateful for, what would make your day great, and a daily affirmation. At night, you write three amazing things that happened to you and a reflection on how you could have made the day even better.

BUY IT: Intelligent Change, $29.00

Create and Stick to New Habits

Use The Morning Sidekick Journal every day if you want to start a new habit and stick to it. It includes daily prompts and is broken up into three phases to help you get going and stay consistent. Each day also includes a new piece of advice or a challenge to help you keep going.

BUY IT: Amazon, $27.98

Build Your Creativity

Try The Creativity Journal to help you unlock your most creative self. This journal is full of unique prompts and exercises and includes opportunities to tap into creative writing, drawing, stretching and self-reflection.

BUY IT: Poketo, $28.00

Prioritize Your Mental Health

Has your therapist ever told you to journal, but you found it too abstract or difficult? Check out My Therapist Told Me to Journal: A Creative Mental Health Workbook, which uses journaling, drawing and goal-tracking to help you improve your overall mental health and well-being.

BUY IT: Barnes & Noble, $14.99

Eat More Mindfully

Developed by a nutritionist, The Well Journal: A Guided Journal for Mindful Eating and Better Living seeks to help you become more mindful of what you’re eating and how it makes you feel. It’s not necessarily for monitoring your weight — maybe your goal is to have more energy or eat more vegetables — and it includes spaces to track your sleep, exercise, and mindfulness practices.

BUY IT: Amazon, $16.98

Start Your Fitness Journey

If you have a set fitness goal that you want to work towards, the Blogilates 12 Week Fit Journal allows you to record and monitor your progress, tracking food, water, macros, mood, sleep and workouts. It also has space for weekly grocery lists and comes with a pen and tape measure.

BUY IT: Target, $19.99

Focus on Self-Reflection

Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice is based on Michelle Obama’s bestselling memoir and includes prompts designed to help you reflect on your personal and family history; your goals, challenges and dreams; what moves you and brings you hope; and what future you imagine for yourself and your community.

BUY IT: Amazon, $9.89

Better Manage Stress

Letting go of stress is easier said than done, but with Let That Sh*t Go: A Journal for Leaving Your Bullsh*t Behind and Creating a Happy Life the author uses prompts and exercises with "colorful" language to help make the process a little bit lighter.

BUY IT: Amazon, $8.99

Organize Your Life

This journal doubles as a planner by including features to guide your personal growth, such as goal setting and goal reviewing, along with aspects of a more traditional planner like to-do lists and daily schedules to help you plan ahead and stay organized.

BUY IT: Papier, $26.09

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