My 5MJ or 5-Minute Journal is the format I use for my daily note. It has the following format:


I am grateful for:

Affirmation

“Put an affirmation here.”

Review


I used to have a list of To Dos in my 5MJ, but I decided to use my task manager (Things) for this sole purpose in order to avoid redundancy.

The original 5MJ also had a last question: How could I have made today even better? I have stopped using this question for a long time since I find it too negative.