Welcome to Real Life · Chapter 5

The Feelings Tracker

Three days. Three strongest emotions each day. Not how you think you should feel — how you actually feel.

⏱ 5 min at end of each day × 3 days
Kit Tashi Ren

Tashi walked you through this in the book. Three days of tracking your strongest feelings, what triggered them, and what you did with them. This is your printable tracker plus a word list so you never get stuck on "I don’t know what to call it."

What You’ll Need

  • Three days
  • Five minutes at the end of each day
  • Honesty with yourself (this one is private unless you choose to share)

Feelings Tracker

At the end of each day, write down your three strongest emotions, what triggered them, and what you did. After three days, look for patterns.

Day 1 ·

EmotionWhat triggered itWhat I did with it

Day 2 ·

EmotionWhat triggered itWhat I did with it

Day 3 ·

EmotionWhat triggered itWhat I did with it

Feelings Word List

Not just “good” or “bad.” Specific words help you understand yourself better.

When things feel good:
joyful · proud · grateful · excited · calm · loved · safe · hopeful · curious · playful · content · brave · seen
When things feel hard:
frustrated · lonely · anxious · disappointed · jealous · overwhelmed · embarrassed · hurt · sad · tired · stuck · left out
Mixed / in between:
nervous-excited · restless · unsure · surprised · nostalgic · guilty-but-relieved · torn · empty · numb · annoyed-but-fine

Tashi’s bonus twist: Keep this going past 3 days if you want. A 30-day version — just the three strongest feelings of each day — becomes a map of your inner weather. Patterns you never noticed before will show up.

Tashi
“Seeing the pattern is the first step to changing it. You can’t manage what you don’t notice.”

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