· You could ask your counselee to keep a record of happy times they experience, including all of the details regarding the time, place, company, what made them happy, how they conducted themselves at that time. You could ask them about unhappy times and include the sample list of details above.

· You could ask them to record the details of their devotional exercises. Ask them to include the details of their personal Bible study, their prayer life, their witness for Christ. Ask them to share something from their heart that has been meaningful to them in their spiritual walk during their personal devotions and throughout their day.

· You could ask them about their work habits. Have them record the details of the work they do on a daily basis. What time do they start, what time to they end? What kind of work is it? Do they sit and work on a computer more or are they involved with physical work more? What is their attitude toward work, the people they work with, their working conditions, the actual work itself?

· You could ask them to record the details of how they interact with other people. Who did they interact with today? How did they interact, verbal, a simple smile, an e-mail etc? In what way did they interact, where they friendly or angry? How did the other person respond, and how did they respond in turn in their thoughts, words, attitudes, interpretations, behaviour etc?

· You could ask them to note down the things they think of most often. What is it that occupies their minds as they go through their day? What thoughts make them happy, what thoughts make them sad? What thoughts do they share with others, what thoughts do they keep to themselves? Are there thoughts they have that they are too afraid to include in their journal (you don’t need to pry into these, but it is helpful to know whether your counselee admits to such thoughts or not)? Often, such thoughts regard sin and a counselee won’t ever share those thoughts in a completely honest way because they are deeply ashamed of them. I don’t think there is a believer who can’t understand that.

· You could ask them to record the ways in which they think about other people. What are their thoughts, do they act upon them? Do those thoughts cause them to treat those people in a different way? Are the thoughts they have good or bad? Are they founded upon facts? If they are not, how do those thoughts come about? How can they be rectified?