5-Day Journaling Exercise: Evolution, It’s Not Black and White
Day 1: Your Evolutionary Traits
What are 3 core traits that have stayed constant throughout your life?
Which ones have evolved or changed meaning as you’ve grown?
How have those traits both helped and hindered you?
Day 2: A Riptide - Swimming Sideways
Reflect on a time when you resisted your natural way of being and got caught in the resistance or overwhelmed.
How can you work with your nature rather than against it?
What might “swimming sideways” have looked like in that moment?
What sideways path can you take today?
Day 3: Black, White, and Everything Between
What personal beliefs or habits do you see as “right or wrong”?
Where might those be more complex than they seem?
Day 4: Grace in the Process
Where can you extend yourself more grace as you evolve?
What small signs of growth are you overlooking?
Write at least one affirmation about being both a work in progress and a success story.
Day 5: Your Evolving Lineage
What part of yourself have you mislabeled, tried to suppress, or made black and white?
Think back on your “evolution.” What moments mark your personal divergence — like the zebra from the horse?
What were the catalysts for each shift?