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Good idea. I never keep that type of routine up long enough to get the full benefit. It helps for a day or two, then plateaus and I drop it before the routine really gains traction.
October 26, 2012 at 16:38 |
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"THREE GOOD THINGS
Each evening for a week, write down three things that went well that day and what caused them to go well.
That's all there is to it. Remarkably, in large-scale surveys of people who tried this, most found that it significantly decreased depressive symptoms and increased positive moods for the next six months."
The is very similar to Mark's advice in his Dreams book, to make a list of what went better. The big difference is that this asks you to write down what caused the thing to go better. I believe that that extra step could be important because it compels me to make the association with being persistent, organized, sociable, etc.
I am going to start doing this when I daily my daily What Went Better list (using iDoneThis as Mark once recommended).
(By the way, even apart from this little tip, I found Siegel's book extraordinarily helpful.)