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Spend 30-Seconds a Day Doing This One Thing to Feel Happier
I’ve spent a lot of time reading about the healing, energizing, and transformative effects a practice of gratitude can have on your life and decided a few years ago to experiment with the concept of a daily gratitude practice. I bought a bunch of different gratitude journals, and I even tried turning a blank notebook into my own gratitude journal, but the habit never stuck.
To build a more sustainable routine, I simplified the objective into something I could do quickly every day for 31 consecutive days to test things out. I called it my “1-a-Day-in-May” challenge.
How it works:
•Define a timeframe. (Ten days, one month, etc.)
•Pick a place you see daily without trying too hard.
(e.g., a daily-log, a journal, a wall, a mirror, the refrigerator, etc.)
•Grab a pad of sticky notes.
•Each day, write one thing you are grateful for on a sticky note.
•Add that sticky note to the place you picked.
•Photograph and post it. (Sharing gratitude is remarkably rewarding on both sides of the equation.)
Breaking the activity down into a defined timeline and small, easy steps helped me overcome the feeling that adding a…
