Weekend: Stuck or scattered? Try this daily journaling practice
Why journaling helps you find clarity, align your energy, and make meaningful progress with Annette Furio
The Good Space shares insights throughout the week to help you feel more grounded, creative, and aligned. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, and especially on Saturdays, we slow things down, offering a moment to reset and reconnect with what matters. These editions include thoughtful reflections, guest voices, and practices that support your nervous system and your next right step.
One of the best ways to reconnect with yourself, especially when life feels unclear or overwhelming, is through journaling.
It’s simple, accessible, and surprisingly powerful. Just a few minutes a day can help you make sense of your thoughts, identify what matters most, and start moving with more intention.
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This week’s guest editor, Annette Furio of Season Journals, has built an entire brand around this belief.
She helps people strengthen their relationship with themselves and their story through beautifully designed journals for life's milestones and everyday moments.
Annette’s approach is thoughtful, grounded, and rooted in the idea that clarity doesn’t come from thinking harder but from listening inward.
If you’re looking for a simple way to weave self-care into your routine and shift your mindset toward more self-love, kindness, and gratitude, I highly recommend this journal from her collection. It’s my favorite.
Below, she shares her take on how journaling acts as a daily reset, along with a journal prompt, affirmation, book recommendation, and an extra resource to inspire your weekend.
Featuring Annette Furio of Seasons Journals
To me, journaling falls somewhere between self-care and productivity. It’s not quite “rest” because I’m actively writing. It’s not quite “productive” because when I journal, the feeling that I should be doing something else creeps in.
But the outcomes from journaling are essential to greater alignment, which leads to better productivity.
When we feel productive, it’s because we are, at the most basic level, getting things done. We’re moving things forward in the direction we intend.
Why are we able to get these things done? It’s because we have the time, focus, alignment, skillset, passion, and the sole responsibility to “do the thing,” or a combination of all these.
Time: we’ve set aside appropriate time to do the task
Focus: we’re in the zone; we may even be in “flow”
Alignment: we feel good about what we’re doing
Skillset: we’re trained; we’re good at it and we know what we’re doing
Passion: we love it
Responsibility: at the end of the day, it’s on us, so we get it done
The elephant in the room is that I haven’t described what “it” is. What the task at hand may be.
You can have all the elements above optimized to perfection and it won’t matter without one thing — the self-awareness to know what it is you should even be doing.
Journaling helps us notice and understand what we’re:
Valuing
Good at
Drained by
Complaining about
Excited for
Grateful for
Lacking
Navigating in our relationships
Hoping for
Afraid of
When we journal, we call our attention to what’s happening in our lives. We’re being active participants in crafting our path, writing our own story.
Chances are, if you’re reading The Good Space, you’re already invested in creating a life of purpose and alignment.
When you answer guided prompts about topics like those above, or write in a stream-of-consciousness style, you’ll be able to notice patterns about what you really want and desire in life.
You’ll begin to notice the gaps. Maybe it will begin to make sense why you’re not being productive or feeling stuck.
It’s also important to note that humans are changing, growing, and moving in and out of various seasons of life. What worked for us once may not work for us now.
Having a pulse on your inner self through introspection and journaling is a way to stay grounded in your mind and body as you navigate life and all of its changes and challenges.
Through all this, the goal is to notice, understand, and begin taking small, aligned actions toward your intentions.
When you know yourself and where you thrive, productivity will be a result, not something you force.
You can connect with Annette on Instagram and buy a journal here.
Thank you so much to Annette for sharing her wisdom and energy with us. What was your takeaway from this? Are there any guests you’d like to recommend for The Guest Edit? Let me know in the comments!
Tips and Tools
Why real productivity starts with your body–not your to-do list
The rebellion begins with rest–forget the hustle
An interview I did with Break Free from the Internet about my relationship with technology, social media, and smartphone.
Five ways to nurture our energy–regualtion is everything.
How to create a morning routine that will make you thrive–a step-by-step guide.
Good Thinking
Good Question
Move up the ladder to higher vibrations by writing at the top of a blank page:
What do I want to experience more of in my day today? What do I need or desire? (Intention)
Now, how can I make this happen? (Action)
and see what flows from your pen. No judgment or editing.
Good Book
Annette says that Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown will help you expand your understanding of emotions and equip you with a broader language for describing your emotions when you journal.
I’ve heard great things about this one and haven’t read it, but I want to now!
Extra Goodies
Good Read: The World Happiness Report was released in March. While the report is extensive, the Executive Summary is worth reading.
Good Thought: James Clear reminds us of the importance of protecting our time:
"The more control you have over your attention, the more control you have over your future. And it starts with having enough courage to protect your time.It's so easy to say yes. We want to be agreeable, helpful, liked. That's how time disappears and attention becomes fragmented: not in big chunks, but in a thousand small concessions.
What you trade your attention for is what your life becomes."
Good Stretch (10 min): A quick yoga session to help you get a full body stretch anytime of the day.
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