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Mind · Journals & tools

The Five
Minute Journal

by Intelligent Change

Five prompts, twice a day, for six months.

A linen-bound, undated journal on FSC-certified recycled paper. Mornings: three things you are grateful for, and one affirmation. Evenings: three highlights of the day, and one thing you learned. 264 pages, which is about six months. Because it is undated, a gap costs you nothing.

Undated FSC recycled paper Linen binding ~6 months
$32 / 264 pages Where to find it

Intelligent Change direct, checked August 2026. Undated — lasts about six months.

Honest by nature

What is inside — and what is never

What is inside

  • 264 pages, undated
  • 100% recycled, FSC-certified, compostable paper
  • 100% linen fabric binding, cotton sew bind
  • A cotton ribbon marker

What is never

  • A date on the page to shame you
  • An app you have to open first
  • Plastic in the cover
  • A prompt that takes more than a minute
What we cannot claim

Intelligent Change points to positive-psychology research behind the prompts. Gratitude journalling does have supporting studies, but effects in this literature are modest and vary a lot between people. Buy it as a five-minute habit that some people find steadying — not as a treatment.

Read: The honest case for a magnesium bath →
How to use it

How to actually keep it

i.

Leave it out

On the kitchen table or beside the kettle. A journal in a drawer is a journal you have quit.

ii.

Write badly

Three words per line is a complete answer. The prompt is the practice, not the prose.

iii.

Skip guilt-free

It is undated. Come back on any page, on any day, and nothing is behind.

Medina
“I have started and abandoned a dozen journals. This is the only one I have finished, and I think it is entirely because the pages are not dated.”
— Medina, founder of ETHOS
Where to find it

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