The Comparison Journal
Envy is information. Name the source.
Comparison is not a character flaw. It is the oldest way a social animal works out where it stands. What changed is the source: a phone showing you the best ninety seconds of thousands of strangers. This journal writes the origin of every comparison down, in the same column, every time.
Four moves, repeated until they add up.
- 01Sign the Standing Position
What comparison has cost you, and the three sources you think are doing it.
- 02Log each comparison
Its source, upward or downward, usable or not. The page works out your Signal Rate.
- 03Look back a week
Every page sends you to last week's entry: does it still sting? Mostly it will not.
- 04Rank your sources
The Source Table: every source, its count, what you did about it, and whether it worked.
4 stories end on this journal.
Short animated films on Instagram and TikTok, each built around one public-domain line and the mechanic inside this journal.
30 days · 43 pages.
Instant PDF download. Print at home on A4 or US Letter, or fill it in on a tablet with a PDF markup app. Undated, so a missed day costs nothing.
- The Standing Position
- 30 day logs
- The Seven-Day Look-Back
- Four weekly checkpoints
- The Source Table
- The Signal Line
- Two reference pages
A self-help record, not therapy or treatment. If what you are feeling is closer to persistent low mood, hopelessness, or an eating or body-image difficulty, a GP or a qualified therapist can help in a way a journal cannot.
Photographic covers and our animated stories are made with AI image tools under human direction. Interiors are written and laid out with AI assistance, then reviewed and checked. Every quotation is public domain.
