How Keeping a Journal Can Change and Save Your Life

What else can you do before you go to sleep in terms of a nightly routine? Write in a journal. Martin Seligman, the pioneer of the field of positive psychology, did some research and what he found was people who recorded just a journal exercise, three good things that happened to them during the day that's just ending. By doing that little exercise, they promoted gratitude and felt much better over a period of weeks. And so another part of your pre sleep routine could be just before you go to bed, you pull out your journal and you ask yourself this question. What three good things happened to me during this day? And what that does, it fights your brain's negativity bias and it forces your brain to hunt for great things that happen to you during the day.