Sometimes our emotions can feel like unbearable whirlwinds, even on a standard Tuesday afternoon. A lot of this feeling of instability can come from the idea that we don’t have much control over the way a day, week, month or year can go. Bullet journals and daily planners are all well and good, but feeling like we haven’t reached our targets can send us on a downward spiral.
This is where practicing gratitude comes in. Feelings of self-doubt and like you’re not quite on the right track can be tempered with a whole lot of self-love. In fact, in a 2003 psychological study by the University of California, Berkley, it was found that those who wrote in gratitude journals every week for 10 weeks, or daily for just two weeks, were recorded to have experienced more gratitude, positive moods, optimism about the future and even better sleep patterns.
