Brian Johnson suggests using everyday annoyances like traffic or rude drivers as reminders to practice gratitude instead. He walks through how to spot these triggers and flip them into moments of appreciation for small miracles you usually ignore.
So now it has literally become a cue, a trigger, a prompt for me to appreciate him. Look at all these irritants as the things that are going to make him heroically activated. All right, cool. Let's make a list of all the little things that currently trigger you. Isn't that funny? But every time you find yourself irritated by the person that cuts you off in the grocery store or on the freeway or fill in the blank on the 101 other things we can choose to get irritated about, are you the guy or gal that gets upset? Are you the one who uses it as a trigger to reflect on the miracle that is technology? You're in traffic. Do you use that as an opportunity to complain? Or do you use that as an opportunity to realize that a hundred years ago you're on a horse and it's taking you however long it's going to go? And even that was a miracle. Our entire lives become one big practice.
