I keep a little daily journal/notebook. It’s a spiral notebook that I leave open on my table. When I take my coffee break or lunch break, I sit down by the journal and write in it. Not a lot, mainly just thoughts I’m having that day. (Some of those daily thoughts end up as posts on my Facebook page.) 🙂

One of the most difficult things I find journaling-wise is keeping a gratitude journal. Not because I’m not grateful, but simply because I forget about it. Well, I surprised myself and I found an easy way to solve that issue.

If I piggyback habits on top of each other, I find it helps me keep up on them. So, what I’ve started doing with my gratitude journal is I’ve added it to my daily journal. At the top of the page, I write the date, and then just below that I leave three spaces for listing three things that I’m grateful for. Big things, small things, random things. Some days it’s hard, but I can always find something, even if it’s just listing my cats and what I had for breakfast. Before I write my journal entry, I have to write my three gratitude entries.

When I want to review what I’ve been grateful for lately, I just go back through my regular journal and there are the grateful entries right at the top.

Since I was already in the habit of doing a short journal entry everyday, it was simple and painless to add in some gratitude journaling. But keeping a separate Gratitude Journal wasn’t working for me.

Is there a new habit you’re struggling to create? Maybe there’s something that you’ve already established that you can piggyback the new habit onto.