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Journal prompts for men

Plain questions to write about, grouped by the area of life they come from.

151 prompts. Updated 2 November 2026.

These prompts come from Men’s Success Journal, a daily journal app for iPhone, iPad and Android. The app shows one question a day, and you answer in a few lines or write as long as you want. This page lists 151 of the questions in the app. You can answer them on paper or in any notes app.

Read one question and write the first answer that comes. Questions that ask for a name, a number or a date have a specific answer to write down.

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Questions for any day · Career · Business · Money · Health and fitness · Relationships · Family · Faith or purpose · Discipline and habits · Mental health · Learning · By situation

Questions for any day

These questions aren't tied to a particular life area.

When was the last time you gave 100% to something?
Who would be glad to get a call back from you?
How much did you spend last week on stuff you didn't plan to buy?
Where did the hour after work go yesterday?
Who could you make things right with this week?
What old habit showed back up this week?
Which hard conversation could you start this week?
Which apology would you like to make this week?
What keeps costing you money every month?

Career

Which part of your work would you keep if you could drop the rest?
What did you finish at work this week that nobody noticed?
What did you say yes to at work this week that should have been a no?
Which mistake at work this month taught you the most?
Who helped your career that you never properly thanked?
What do people at work think of you that you would like to change?
Where are you coasting at work right now?
Which of your work habits would you hate to see a new hire copy?
If your job ended tomorrow, who would you call first?

Business

What price feels too high to ask for your work?
What would you sell if you had to make $500 by next Friday?
What do friends ask you to help with that other people pay for?
Which business idea have you been talking about that you'd like to try?
Why did you drop the last business idea you had?

Money

Which subscription did you forget you were paying for?
How many months could you cover your bills if your income stopped?
What did you buy this month that you already regret?
Who do you owe money to, even a small amount?
Who owes you money that you could ask about this week?
Which money habit did you pick up from your parents?
Which purchase are you talking yourself into right now?
How much of your paycheck is spoken for before it arrives?
Which statement or account have you not opened in months?

Health and fitness

Which workout keeps moving on the calendar?
When did you last see a doctor for a checkup?
Which fitness goal did you set this year and let slide?
What time did you put your phone down last night?

Relationships

Who would you call at 2 a.m. if something went wrong?
When did you last make plans instead of waiting to be invited?
Which friendship takes more than it gives right now?
Who did you talk over this week instead of listening to?
Which argument this month did you want to win more than settle?
Who do you only call when you need something?
Which grudge are you still carrying?
Who have you been too proud to ask for help?

Family

When did you last call a parent or grandparent just to talk?
What did the man who raised you teach you that you still use?
Which argument in your family keeps coming back?
Who in your family never asks for help but probably needs it?
What would it take to patch things up with the relative you avoid?

Faith or purpose

Where did your values cost you something this week?
When did you last spend ten minutes in prayer or silence?
What does the man you most respect do that you don't?
What does a good man do on an ordinary Tuesday?
What would you stand up for even if it cost you your job?
What matters to you now that you ignored at eighteen?
Who is counting on you in ways you rarely think about?

Discipline and habits

What's the first thing you do when you pick up your phone in the morning?
Which app eats the most of your day?
Which bad habit costs you the most money?
When do you usually give up on a new habit?
What did you do this week even though you didn't feel like it?
What do you tell yourself right before you skip something you planned?

Mental health

Which worry have you kept to yourself?
What set you off the last time you lost your temper?
What are you avoiding by staying busy?
What have you been telling people is fine?
If someone you trust asked how you're doing, what would you say?
What's something you're proud of that nobody knows about?
Who have you been short with lately?
When did you last get close to tears?

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Learning

Which book have you started and not finished?
What have you watched a tutorial for and never tried?
Which subject do you avoid because it makes you feel slow?
What would you try if you didn't mind being a beginner in public?
What did you change your mind about this year?
What was the last thing you practiced on purpose?

By situation

The app asks a few optional profile questions (work, relationship, kids) and picks questions that fit the answers. These are some of them.

In school

Which assignment did you rush this week?
What would you ask in class if you weren't worried how it sounded?

Working for someone

Which meeting this week could you skip without anyone noticing?
What raise would you ask for, as an actual number?
Which part of your job description do you never actually do?
How many hours did you work this week that nobody paid you for?
What decision is your team waiting on this week?
What feedback have you been holding back from someone you manage?
What did you do yourself this week that someone on your team should own?
What would your team say you are bad at?
Which hire would you make differently if you could?
Which decision is worth making even if someone gets upset?

Self-employed or running a business

Which client would you like on clearer payment terms?
Which client would you drop if the money didn't matter?
Where will your next client come from?
What's your hourly rate once you count the unpaid hours?
When did you last call the customer you would least want to lose?
Who on your payroll would you hire again tomorrow?
What do customers complain about that you have stopped hearing?
Which product or service makes you the least money for the most work?
What would happen to the business if you took two weeks off?
What did you pay yourself last month?

Between jobs

Who have you told that you're looking for work?
On what date do your savings run out at this pace?
Which job would you take tomorrow if it were offered?
What do you say when someone asks what you do for work?

Retired

What have you wanted to do for years that you now have time for?
What do you miss about working?
Which trip have you been calling 'someday' for too long?

Single

Which thing you want in a partner is hardest to say out loud?
Who do you eat dinner with most weeks?
How do you spend Friday nights when nothing is planned?
Which of your habits would a partner have a hard time living with?
When did you last ask someone out?

Dating

Would you go on a second date with the last person you went out with?
What did you talk about too much on your last date?
Who are you waiting to hear back from?
What do you leave out about yourself on a first date?
What makes you lose interest in someone fast?
Have you and the person you're seeing talked about being exclusive?
How do you act when you like someone more than they like you?

In a relationship

When did you and your partner last eat dinner together?
What is your partner worried about right now?
Which argument with your partner keeps coming back?
When did your partner last come first in your week?
What would your partner say you have been distracted by lately?
What did you say to your partner this week that you would take back?
When did you and your partner last talk about something besides the kids?
Who is carrying more of the load with the kids right now, you or your partner?

Married

How is your marriage different from a year ago?
How do you and your partner split the money decisions?
Which of your habits makes married life harder?
Where do things stand with your in-laws?
Which household job do you leave to your partner by default?
Which decision did you make this month without asking your partner first?

Engaged

What have you and your partner decided about money after the wedding?
What from the home you grew up in do you want to keep out of your marriage?
Where do you and your partner still disagree about kids or money?

Separated or divorced

Who has been in your corner since the separation?
What do you do on the evenings that feel longest?
Which conversation with your ex are you dreading?
What does your budget look like since the split?
What do your kids need to hear from you about the separation?
How did the last handoff with the kids go?

Fathers

What did one of your kids tell you this week?
Which house rule with the kids have you stopped enforcing?
When did you last spend an hour with your kid, just the two of you?
What did you lose your temper about with the kids this week?
Which thing you said to the kids this week do you wish you could redo?
What are your kids worried about right now?
How did you handle the last time one of your kids broke a rule?

Expecting a baby

What will you stop doing once the baby arrives?
What worries you most about the baby coming?
What from your own childhood do you want the baby to have too?
Which of your habits do you want gone before your kid is old enough to copy it?

Questions

What are good journal prompts for men?

The prompts here cover career, business, money, health and fitness, relationships, family, faith or purpose, habits, mental health and learning. For example: "How much did you spend last week on stuff you didn't plan to buy?" "Which subscription did you forget you were paying for?" "Where did your values cost you something this week?" "Which part of your work would you keep if you could drop the rest?" This page lists 151 prompts from Men's Success Journal, grouped by area.

How do I use a journal prompt?

Read one question and write the first answer that comes. A few lines is enough, and you can write as long as you want. Questions that ask for a name, a number or a date have a specific answer to write down.

Is there an app that gives me one journal prompt a day?

Yes. Men's Success Journal shows one question a day on iPhone, iPad and Android. You can reroll it, write your own question, set goals in the morning and check them off in an evening review. Entries are stored on your device.

Get the app

Men’s Success Journal gives you one of these questions each day, lets you write your own, and has a morning goals prompt and an evening review. It is free, with one optional Supporter purchase. Men’s Success Journal on the App Store and Men’s Success Journal on Google Play. More about the app is on its facts page.

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