What a fabulous website!  Something I get many of my clients to do is to look back over their day or week and write down three things that have made them feel good.  It can be anything – something small like seeing a rainbow,  something big like getting a promotion, or anything in between.  It’s commonly known amongst the Quest community as “3 Gifts”, and I’ve found that clients can very quickly start to notice the results of doing it as their mood improves and they have less ‘bad days’ and many more ‘good days’.

The thinking behind it is that our brains are primed to look for evidence that supports our beliefs.  For example, lets say you sleep through the alarm clock in the morning, stub your toe on the bed as you stumble to the bathroom in a blind panic to get ready for work, miss your bus/train, and then end up being an hour late for the very important meeting with all the directors of the company… in all likelihood you’ll be thinking “What a bad start to the day.  I wonder what else is going to go wrong?”  By continuing your day with the belief that everything else will go wrong, it’s most likely that it will.  It’s so easy to get caught up in a negative spiral of thinking, and yet, by priming our brain to look for the positive things that are happening around us (and within us), it can be just as easy to create a positive spiral of thinking.

This website aims to get us to do just that, saying: “Because it’s so easy to think of what went ‘wrong’ with a day, we’d like you to start thinking about what went ‘right’. It’s all about knowing there’s a choice of what to think.”  I personally would add ‘feel’ to the end of that sentence as well.

Anyway, take a look at it.  You never know, it might just brighten up your day!  🙂

www.futureme.org