This evening, why not start a gratitude journal?

I’d love to be one of those people who can keep a diary, and when I say keep a diary, I don’t just mean acquiring a beautiful mole skin note book and writing in it for the first 8 days of January; I am talking about Bridget Jones, Samuel Pepys – esque diary keeping! Sadly, I’ve never been able to sustain diarising. I am frequently too tired or too i’nto a good book’ to bother jotting down the ins and outs of my day.  What I have started to do however, and what has allowed a peaceful joy to settle upon me as I doze off, is the keeping of a gratitude journal.It’s brief, quick and simple. I often just write a friend’s name or a couple of words about a lovely reflexology client or perhaps simply ‘bike ride’ or ‘Bake Off“!  It’s wonderful to cast your mind back over your day and just note down a word for each thing you were thankful for… ‘pasta, coffee, the bus arrived as I got to the bus stop’.  Recalling these simple things and committing them to paper makes me realise how lucky I am and often makes me reevaluate what I may otherwise have perceived as a difficult day.

Give it a go!