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My easy daily gratitude practice

5 April 2021

I’m a big believer in the power of a gratitude practice. I think expressing gratitude for the many things I have to be grateful for helps me focus on the positive and keeps me centered. I’ve tried a number of ways to practice gratitude, including a gratitude journal and a gratitude email exchange.

In early 2021, I came upon a new method that has been so successful for me that I wanted to share. I heard about the book, The Five Minute Journal, which provides a space to briefly reflect on gratitude by answering the same questions each day. I borrowed the questions from that book and made them into a Trello card that is on my Daily Task Management Board.

Each day, a task called Five Minute Journal is moved into my To Do Today list on Trello. Each morning, I fill it out (it actually just takes a minute or two) and move it to my Done Today list. Then I get a burst of confetti. (That confetti is so rewarding!)

Here’s what the back of the card looks like, so you can see the questions I’m answering each day:

This process has made it outrageously easy for me to embrace gratitude in my daily life. If you use Trello (or I’m sure other task apps), I encourage you to give it a try. Or go old school and buy the book and fill in your answers to the questions by hand.

A gratitude practice is so valuable. By integrating it into my morning routine and filling it out right in my task board I never miss a day.

Tagged with: daily habits, gratitude, habits, trello

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