Do One Thing....

Several years ago I started collecting a series of journals that would hold prompts for you to fill out along with quotes and exercises. They are so much fun and I decided I’d share some with you.

Journal: Do One Thing Every Day That Makes You Happy

Date Filled Out: 1/1/2022

Quote: Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. 

Prompt: What I would be delighted to do all night for 50 cents and a sandwich:

Response: writing. I am manic so I’d stay up anyway (I wouldn’t even need Monster). Other suggestions are playing games with friends like Midnight Outburst or just reading. Hurray allnighters.

Journal: Do One Thing Every Day That Inspires You:

Date Filled Out: 2/21/2020

Quote: Nothing So Difficult As a Beginning in Poesy, Unless Perhaps the End. 

Prompt: Write a beginning

Response: She wore an orange tank top that revealed generous cleavage. “They were the first thing I noticed” best friend Alixce would later admit popping her head into Leigh’s dorm room. Two kindred spirits. They have four years ahead of them. 

Journal: Do One Thing Every Morning to Make Your Day

Date Filled Out: 4/9/2023

Quote: My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light- Miles Davis

Prompt: The future I see for myself in the morning light

Response: Today is Easter.  I foresee a day of celebrating at Aunt Jeanette’s house. There will be o-deurves and chess and probably ham. I will finally get to meet Lucas, Eddie and Andrea’s baby. I will nap in the car. 

Journal: Do One Thing Every Day That Centers You

Date: 7/9/2023

Quote: And You? When Will You Begin That Long Journey Into Yourself?- Rumi

Prompt: TODAY! How?

Response: Today I had to be honest with myself and acknowledge that its my bipolar disorder interfering with my latest writing project and its incredibly frustrating. 

Journal: Do One Thing Every Day to Change the World

Date: 4/8/2023

Quote: In 2016, only 56 percent of the voting-age population went to the polls in the United States to cast their ballots for President, of the 32 most highly developed democratic countries, the United States ranked 26th in voter turnout- Pew Research Center

Prompt: I

Response: 

- voted in the presidential election (2020 and 2024)

- did not vote in the last presidential election (2016)

- will vote in the next presidential election (2028)

Note: I was eligible to vote in the 2016 election but I was in a severe depression, barely showering and I was institutionalized about two weeks alter

Journal: Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You

Date: 12/4/2025 (yes! Today!)

Prompt: A list of things that scare me ( a list started before and continued today)

Response:

• Rejection

• Losing my journals (my most cherished possession)

• Meeting new people (this used to scare me after I came out of the hospital but now I’m back to my old extroverted self)

• Getting in trouble 

• Fire ( the chief way I worry of losing my journals even though I keep them in a fireproof box)

• Making people mad

• Crickets (not the little ones. The creepy ass cave crickets/ sprickets that should go die)

• Embarrassing myself

• Losing Justin

• Being hospitalized again

• My past

• Hurting my parents