Advice for anyone wanting to keep a long journal of daily gratitude • Day 281 via /r/gratitude

If you’re going to begin to make journaling gratitude a daily practice, write your pages at the beginning of each day, preferably near your time of waking.

For some time now, I have been noticing that at the end of the day, I’m tired from everything and the joy that I once received giving gratitude has become a chore instead of something I look forward to doing.

I’ve been wanting to change my nighttime habit, because gratitude should feel wonderful. Right now, I do not feel wonderful, and so reflected in my gratitude practice is my lack of joy. I’m sure looking back over my posts here I have noticed many low effort posts and this compounds my less than wonderful feelings.

When I noticed this, I began looking for solutions to fix this. I already have a morning ritual that during my AM coffee I recite some positive affirmations – which include gratitude. It has been mostly private but I am looking to find a way to shift my posts here to the beginning of the day…

Tomorrow I plan to have better, more joyful posts – coming from this moment and beyond.

Thank you for reading this. At almost 300 days I want to continue to share what I have learned so you can be successful if you ever want to try journaling gratitude for a very long time.