The Luci journal
Blog
About mood tracking, self-reflection, and the patterns hiding in an ordinary week.
Written by the people behind Luci, a mood tracker and guided journal.

Mood Tracking
Apps are ideal for Mood Tracking
Everyone should do a daily mood check. Mood Tracking is one of the best ways to find happiness and spot trends that make us sad early on.
November 15, 2023

Psychology
Power of Feeling Unforced
Imagine sitting beside the road seeing cars drive by. In each of those cars sits a person with his or her own goals and feelings. While you are sitting there you might even notice your brain wants to turn its attention towards your own feelings.
October 31, 2023

Self-reflection
Reflect on Finance
Every user of Luci is now able to reflect on our latest topic Finance. With over 30 questions to reflect on you will gain better control of your finance and general relationship with money.
October 31, 2023

Psychology
Happiness is a Journey
What do you want to be when you grow up? It's a question you have probably heard at least a dozen times while growing up. Maybe your answer has changed over time. Or perhaps now that you are an adult you ended up becoming exactly where you'd envisioned you'd be all along.
October 4, 2023

Psychology
Feeling bored boosts creativity
It’s important to be bored, but life is making that so difficult for us. Ask yourself this, did I feel bored today? Your answer could be “no” and you’d not be alone.
September 1, 2023

Psychology
Identify and stop negative thought patterns
We start with a fictional tale about a character named Lisa. She is a teacher with almost twenty years of experience standing in front of a classroom.
June 28, 2023

Psychology
Risk of Procrastination
“Let’s delay project X to next week” is a common answer while planning tasks that we find boring, confusing or intimidating. The thought goes something like this.
June 14, 2023

Psychology
How to maintain your vision and beliefs in the real world
'Hello, it’s me' is part of a popular Adele song, but it also rings home to many of us. Why? Because it’s hard to show who you truly are.
May 28, 2023

Self-reflection
Reflect on stress
Reflection is a super important tool to prevent and combat stress. It’s important to realize where the stress is originating from, how it affects us, and if we are still capable of relativity.
May 28, 2023

Psychology
How to stop feeling depleted and drained
A common sight on the other side of the room. You see a group of 30 somethings. happy and full of life. They are talking about getting kids, scoring that new promotion or how they had a lovely weekend with old friends at a nearby lake house.
May 4, 2023

Mood Tracking
Tips for Tracking Custom Emotions
Personal feelings and emotions is a powerful feature that help you track exactly what makes you special. But great power comes with responsibility so we would like to provide some suggestions and tips to get you started.
May 2, 2023

Mood Tracking
Custom emotions in mood trackers are important
If you ask all scientists in the world to map all possible human emotions you will see just about the same amount of answers as there are scientists. In 1992 Paul Ekman found six human emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust and contempt.
April 12, 2023