25 Journal Prompts for Success & Positive Growth Mindset
Are you on a quest to become more successful at work or in your personal life?
Journaling is a helpful way to examine your thoughts and feelings. It’s one of the best ways to work on personal growth.
That’s why today, I’m sharing 25 journal prompts for success and personal growth, along with a free PDF printable that you can download and use anytime.
Use these journal prompts to discover how your mindset is helping or hindering you achieve your goals and dreams. Learn why having a positive growth mindset is so crucial to success, and how to have one, even if you’ve experienced a lot of struggle in the past.
Uncover any thoughts and feelings that are holding you back, and begin to shift your thoughts so you can start taking action in the right direction.

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How Mindset Affects Success
Often, when we are used to things being a certain way, we don’t question them. We may overlook our feelings, thoughts, and circumstances and take them for granted. We may fail to see how our past, our culture, and society have shaped our belief system around success.
That’s where journaling can reveal your mindset around success. Mindset is crucial to become aware of in any aspect of life. The accomplishment of every single goal or dream starts first with a positive growth mindset.
What is a Positive Growth Mindset?
A positive growth mindset means you believe your talents and skills can be developed with effort. A positive growth mindset is optimistic by nature, but it’s more about having a belief in self-growth and ultimately, your ability to succeed.
This is as opposed to a fixed mindset, in which one believes their gifts, talents, and abilities are “set” and they cannot learn or achieve something because “that’s just how it is” or “I can’t because I’m ____ ” (fill in the excuse.)
Someone with a positive growth mindset knows they can achieve just about anything they set their mind to if they have passion, positivity, and work hard.
A positive growth mindset may just be one of the most important variables in achieving success. That’s why we need to journal about it!
So without further wait, here are 25 journal prompts for success and a positive growth mindset. Find the free printable journal prompts for success at the end!
25 Positive Growth Mindset Journal Prompts for Success
1. What is your definition of success right now?
2. How does success look to you 5 years from now?
3. What actions can you take to meet your goals today, this week, this month?
4. How much do you believe in yourself and why?
5. What kind of support network do you have to support your goals?
6. What messages about success did you get growing up?
7. Who or what shaped your ideas of success?
8. How flexible are your plans for success? How detailed are they? And how important are they?
9. What do you tell yourself about success?
10. And what do the people around you and society say?
11. Do you think you deserve success? Why or why not?
12. How will you feel once you reach success?
13. What successes have you already experienced in your life?
14. List all your strengths and how you can use them to build success.
15. How can you work around your weaknesses?
16. What message do you want to send to the world with your success?
17. What do you need to heal or what needs fixing first to become successful? (Maybe nothing, but it’s good to know.)
18. Name 10 emotions tied to the word “success”.
19. What are your hobbies and interests, and how can they fuel your success?
20. How committed to success are you?
21. What excites you the most about having success?
22. What will you do with your success when you reach it?
23. Write out a 5-year plan for your success.
24. Describe how hard work is connected to success and how you feel about working hard for success.
25. How can you improve your outcomes for success?
PDF Printable Journal Prompts for Success
Download these success and growth mindset journaling prompts below. Then, print them out to write any time.
Mindset Journal Prompts for Success
Maintaining a Positive Growth Mindset
Keeping a positive growth mindset is ongoing and takes effort. You have to notice your thoughts and train your inner dialogue to be more kind, self-accepting, and gentle. At the same time, you have to put forth your best effort and use integrity.
If I feel I’m not doing well with something, I try to remind myself that I’m doing my best and it’s okay. I will learn or improve if I keep trying. It’s okay not to be perfect, and failing is learning. I give myself grace and use positive self-talk. And I am telling you, it works!
I recommend you do the same and be kind to yourself, always. If you do this, after a while, it becomes second nature to maintain a positive growth mindset.

Concluding Thoughts
Trying to uncover what’s holding you back from success is always worth pursuing.
If you have a certain goal or you desire success in any area of your life, then you owe it to yourself to achieve that goal and have the success you desire. You owe it to yourself to be persistent and make your dreams come true.
Your mindset is everything, and developing a positive growth mindset in itself is a success. There aren’t too many successful people without that kind of mindset.
I hope you enjoyed these journal prompts about mindset and success! Let me know what you think in the comments.
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