We Tried Journaling Standing Up for a Month

Why We Tried It

Someone on the team had read that standing changes how you think, not just how you feel, and wanted to test it on a habit as small as journaling.

So for a month, the evening page got written standing at a counter instead of seated at a desk.

What Actually Changed

Entries got noticeably shorter and more direct — standing doesn’t encourage lingering over a sentence.

Whether that’s better depends on what you want from the page. For a quick daily check-in, shorter turned out to be an improvement.

What We Kept

We didn’t keep standing every day, but we did keep the shorter, more direct tone it produced.

Sometimes the posture isn’t the point — it’s just a trick that reveals a better habit hiding underneath it.

“Standing didn’t make the habit better. It just made the entries shorter — and shorter turned out to be the win.”

If this resonates, the Etc category has more in the same vein, or start with the Pulse Journal itself if you’d rather put it into daily practice.