personal development

Journaling Prompts for February: Desire

What you actually want—underneath the goals, the shoulds, and the safe bets

Feb 1 • stepfanie tyler

The late January reckoning: why your resolutions are failing (and how to get back on track)

It’s January 29th, and if you’re reading this, you’re probably starting to feel it.

Jan 29 • stepfanie tyler

Practices that help you understand what you want from life

What people actually mean when they say they don’t know what they want is that they don’t know what they want to build their life around.

Jan 27 • stepfanie tyler

Your comfort zone is making you weak

Avoiding discomfort breeds fragility

Jan 24 • stepfanie tyler

You are what you choose, but only if you're actually choosing

Action precedes clarity. You find out who you are by doing things and seeing what happens.

Jan 23 • stepfanie tyler

Prompts for saying what you actually think

Writing prompts for people who have something to say—but haven't said it yet

Jan 16 • stepfanie tyler

You're not stuck, you're just afraid to change

A companion to: You are what you choose

Jan 13 • stepfanie tyler

Great work is a side effect of a disciplined inner life

Paul Graham once wrote an essay called How to Do Great Work. It’s a practical, unsentimental piece about curiosity, patience, and the long timelines…

Jan 9 • stepfanie tyler

The simple framework that helped me lose 35 pounds, get sober, and change my entire life

Conscious Creation is a 12-week guided tracking program for people who are ready for actual change

Jan 3 • stepfanie tyler

Journaling prompts for January: deliberate design

31 prompts for people who are ready to build systems that will actually transform their lives

Jan 2 • stepfanie tyler

Goals are actually just cope

Why setting goals feels productive, but rarely changes anything

Jan 1 • stepfanie tyler

New year, same bullshit: how to stop bullshitting yourself in 2026

On the lies we tell ourselves at the start of every year

Dec 31, 2025 • stepfanie tyler

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