Three Good Things

Activities in Journey towards home support our own journey to connect with ourselves. These activities can be done at any time, in any order, and they are sure to help. If you are looking to do it more systematically, check out our available courses.

This is a fun and easy activity. To do this activity, all you need is a note book, or a notes app, or 3 good things on your android or apple phone.

Every night, before you go to sleep, Write down three good things that happened to you that day. Sometimes, the list could be longer, but stick to three. Some days will be lesser than three, but struggle to find three. I promise there will always be at least 3 good things. This is sometimes alternatively used as “Gratitude” exercise as well, you can name it anything you want.

Now there is no rule for what qualifies as a good thing ; it can be some good food you had that day, or that sweet afternoon nap, or maybe just the fact that your dad called to check on you, or your mom sent you that photo collage that google makes, it can be anything. It could also be something that you saw, a good movie, a joke of a colleague that made you laugh, a flower shaped weird but beautiful.

Try and do these everyday, the idea is not to develop discipline, or have the perfect 90 days streak or whatever – but it is to train your mind to see good. Eventually, gratitude becomes the attitude towards your life, and on your hardest days as well, you can find 3 good things. I didn’t believe in it until, one day last year, I lost my sister, who I was really close to – and my mind was still able to find 3 good things out of that day, and that helped me with my grieving.

Your brain is a trainable muscle, so what we shape it to be, it becomes – and now everyday, I try to go through the day, where I have to actually pick top 3 items, that will go in my list for that day! Also, the easier way to note in pen & paper or app, when you are developing this muscle, but the point is to perform this in your mind, eventually you will start to live in perpetual state of gratitude, and seeing good in everything around – you can do the noting in your mind as well!