Fulfillment & Happiness

Reflection a tool to happiness?

How do you reflect on your day, your week, your month, the year? Do you reflect at all? But why would you reflect? I have tried to find a way to reflecting on my day and progress made during the week, month, year and found that one way worked the best for me.

Why reflect?

I read about it, hear about it and was not doing it. But I got curious why are all these people talking about reflecting. Then I was listening to a podcast and they talked about a way to improve your overall happiness by just writing down three thing you enjoyed or where grateful for that day. I was curious so I started writing down 3 things a day. I noticed it helped me focus on the positive and reflect on what I had done that day.

Growing and trying.

I started to add more things to my habit of writing down three things I enjoyed. I added how I felt energy wise and how happy I felt. I started searching for more and different ways of reflecting. I noticed that I enjoyed doing a grateful exercise combined with a short visualization of my goals just before I go to sleep. I would just lie down and tell myself what beautiful & enjoyable moments I had that day.

Reflecting the game changer.

I got a book, and they gave me a journal with it. As with many things I put both on the shelf for a later time. I started reading the book which talked about motivation and after finishing I felt an urgency to start reflecting more. I started with the journal and instead of a blank book it got questions and that was for me a game changer. It made me thing, made me really reflect on my goals, my health, the place I want to be.

Set goals, reflect, measure.

For me it helped me to set my goals, regularly reflect on them and gives me a tool to measure them. Because sometimes we make progress, but it comes so gradually that we barely notice and that why it is import to measure and get a sense of how much we achieved, this day, last week, last month, last year.