Morning Pages

• Morning Pages is a habit originating from The Artist's Way used to start the day off strong
• The goal of morning pages is to get the day started by spitting out three pages (or about 750 words) of random thoughts, questions, and concerns that come to mind. It isn't meant to be a structured process, it is really meant to allow ideas to flow and stimulate more ideas.
• So far, my experiences have been pretty good. I do this in Roam by capturing the start and end times and using the {word-count} syntax to track. Then I try to get to about 750 words, although some days it is less and some days more.
• I will also take this time to capture todos and tag them with the current date, which helps to show them in the bottom of the daily note.
• It can be beneficial to have some ideas to jump off of in case you get stuck. These are the ones I currently use, taken from Nat Eliason's prompt list.
• Questions
  • What am I excited about?
  • What am I worried about?
  • Is there anything I'm forgetting?
  • What would I like to write about?
  • How do I feel?
  • What's bothering me?
  • What do I need to prioritize?
• Prompts
  • I love it when
  • I hate it when
  • When I wake up
  • When I go to sleep
  • If I could change one thing, it would be
  • Next year I want to
  • I miss