30 Days of Gratitude
December 15, 2017•268 words
Lately, I have been experimenting with new apps that change my thinking and
change my behaviors. I was using something early in the year that was
basically a "mood tracker." You would just mark down if you were feeling
positive or negative and it would also look at your social to see what type of
stuff you would be posting and analyze that. It was cool to do for a few weeks
but it was hard to see myself keeping up with something so granular like
that.The 5-minute journal is basically a simplified and guided journal. It is
mention to be done twice a day with some simple prompts to help you get
through the journal very quickly. The company who makes the app also makes
this is a physical journal. But, when they finally released an Android app I
dove all in.I set the app to remind me to fill it out at 7 am and 10 pm. Those
seem like the perfect times to start up the day and to wind down the day.The
first day I told myself that I have, to be honest with my answers no matter
how silly or awkward they might seem. The self-censorship is high in a
situation like that.The thing that I noticed the first thing about the morning
routine was that it immediately changed my way of thinking. The negative
thoughts went away quickly and I started to think about the positive and
embrace the positive.Focusing, in on the positive stuff really does change
your thinking in the morning and starts the day off on a positive note.