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The Happiness of Three Good Things
“Three Good Things” is the name of a technique guaranteed to raise your happiness quotient, no matter where you are on the happiness scale when you begin to put its magic to work.
It’s simple. And everybody can play. All you have to do is name three good things from your day. That’s it. Just three.
Now if that sounds superficial to you, too easy to have any real impact, you may be interested to know that it works even for the clinically depressed.
What we focus on expands in our experience, you know. When you tell your mind to pick out three good things during the day, it will begin to look for them.
At first, you may find it takes a little bit of effort to name three good things. It’s a new activity after all. But before you know it, you’ll have three good things before lunch. And then you get bonus good things. And they just keep on coming.
When you get really good at it, you can teach yourself to look for three good things in any moment, even the most challenging ones.
But for starters, just name three good things from your day every day. Tell them to yourself. Even better, write them down; keep a little log of them. Make it a family affair if you like, where everybody shares three good things from their day with each other every evening. Or enlist a “three good things buddy” to play it with.
It’s a delicious little technique, like joy-food for your mind. Dish some up for yourself. You’ll like it!
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