Journaling for Self-Trust (30-Day Calendar)

Trusting ourselves to make the right decisions in life isn’t easy. Feeling confident enough to listen to our inner voice, or having the courage to take the first step, takes practice. If we can trust ourselves a little more, it can make a big difference in day-to-day life.

Our 30-days of journaling for self-trust gives you a month-long plan to better understand how to build self-trust and act upon it. It encourages you to put your decision-making process under the spotlight, and understand why you’re unsure about certain decisions.

Use can use alongside this goal planner, this setting intentions calendar, or these 30-day habit and routine ideas. Learning to trust ourselves more is one of the kindest things we can do for ourselves, and journaling about it is a great way to get started.

Build Self-Trust Through Journaling

Below you can find all of the specific steps to the 30-day activity. Each week is themed, and it’s entirely up to you when you fill out this calendar.

You can get the printable at the bottom of the article.

Listening to Your Voice

What simple daily decisions you trust yourself to make.
Times you trusted your inner voice and it was right.
Times you listened, you had to change and adjust, but it was still a good decision.
Environments that give you clarity of thought.
Things that can distract your inner voice.
How you typically respond to your inner voice.

Identifying Self-Doubt

Times/decisions where you consistently doubt yourself.
Identify times you doubted yourself based on facts vs. assumptions.
Opportunities overlooked when you doubted yourself.
Write down what you tell yourself when you’re unsure about certain decisions.
Kind things you can tell yourself when you’re unsure.
Identify people or communities for support when you’re unsure.

Aligning Action with Values

Research what a ‘value’ is and write down some of your values.
Identify your top 3 values based on your life right now.
Take an everyday decision and write down how it would align with your values.
Take a big life decision and write down how it would align with your values.
Identify recent decisions that didn’t align with your values.
Identify a decision you made ten years ago that you wouldn’t make now to acknowledge that values can change.

Taking Action

Identify one (or more) goal, habit, or decision you want to move forward with.
Write down what 5 minutes a day of progress could look like.
Write down what you could do, right now, to move forward.
Identify what you’re potentially losing out on by not acting now.
Identify where in your schedule you could make time for this goal, habit, or decision.
Identify what specific things you could do to trust yourself more to pursue this goal, habit, or decision.

Showing Patience

Identify actions/routines that once felt impossible that you now do without thinking.
Identify roughly how long it took in weeks/months/years to get to that point.
Write down what this goal, habit, or decision looks like daily, rather than an end goal.
Identify times comparison made you unsure or stopped you from making a decision.
Identify ‘why’ you’re pursing this goal/making this decision.
Identify how you can use your ‘why’ to either encourage you to make the decision, or continue working toward it.

Get the Self-Trust Journaling Printable here.

It will take time to build self-trust. So take things one day and one simple decision at a time.