How I Practice Gratitude With a "Max-Lazy" Gratitude Journal

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Summary:

• Practising gratitude is an evidence-based way to raise happiness.
• After trying numerous methods, I now use my task manager as my gratitude journal.
• There are numerous benefits to this task manager method (high habit consistency, benefits of digital, delight of easy cross-day review of daily wins/gratitude).

There's evidence that practising gratitude raises your happiness and emotional well-being.

Practising gratitude is simply recognising and appreciating something in your life.

Keeping a gratitude journal is a way of practising gratitude.

I've tried these methods of keeping a gratitude journal:

• Digitally writing it in GoodNotes, an notebook app designed for digital handwriting
• Typing one up in my digital notes app (Standard Notes) (one note per day and one line per day both tried)
• Keeping a physical gratitude note book (I have the Kurzgesagt one (link to their store))
• Scribbling on a piece of scrap paper (at work) and taking a photo of it
• Writing a line for a task in my Task Manager (Todoist).

I found number 5, using my Task Manager the best way to do it.

This is the method that I found the quickest, easiest, and