January 20th, 2017

I started The Happiness Project in 2012.  Anyone who doesn’t know what this is, it can be found http://gretchenrubin.com/books/the-happiness-project/about-the-book/
I gave the One Sentence Journal to my daughter for Christmas 2011.  My hubby  thought it was cool so I bought him one too and decided to try it myself as well.
There is space to write something that made me happy every day for 5 years.
Well, five years later, it is finished.
The close of 2016 made my journal complete.
Have I kept up with writing??
Yes, I did!
Most days, I wrote a small sentence about something I did that day that made me feel happy. Often it was about my daughter, my hubby or my dogs (my favourite things!).  Often it was about naps and getting enough sleep!  Or relaxing.  Sometimes it was about my friends and family
 
Admittedly, there were days (very few, luckily) that had few positive things but the sun still shone and that is always a good thing.  I did tend to write a lot of what I DID, instead of how it made me feel or a HAPPY thing.