Now that I have completed 40 days of this exercise, I am going to expand it slightly. At the end of each day, I will continue to enter the three highlights of my day, plus at least one thing in my life that I am grateful for - no matter how small.
1) Sitting on the rocks at the beach this morning looking out to sea while contemplating life.
2) Listening to the Football Weekly podcast while eating my tuna sandwich at lunchtime.
3) Talking to my boys on Skype about how their day went at soccer camp.
I am grateful for my level of fitness: I still play football several times a week - often against players half my age!
Neuro-psychology experiments have shown that if people journal highlights from their day every day, then new pathways will be created through the brain. This allows these daily highlights to be automatically generated from then on, resulting in long term benefits such as less symptoms of stress with greater mental health and happiness. After completing various versions of this exercise several times on this blog, I am now taking on a new exercise by answering five simple questions each day.
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