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One Simple 5 Minute Activity I Always Do When I Am Stressed Out
It helps to relieve stress, increase my positivity, and maintain my sanity
5 minutes isn’t a lot of time. But it is enough time for an activity I like to do when I’m stressed out. It was born out of late nights working on client deliverables as a consultant. It helped me maintain my positivity when I had to go to work on the weekends. When I could feel myself going insane from the work I had to do, I daresay it helped to reset my sanity.
The activity
The activity is writing three things I am grateful for. What? How would writing three things you are grateful for help to relieve stress? I don’t know how it does it, but it helps me.
Late into the night, I finish grinding away at a deliverable. I close my laptop, open my journal, and write three things I am grateful for. And it’s not the exercise of writing three things I am grateful for. I think about it, re-live it in my mind, silently give thanks, and then I write it down.
This simple act has made all the difference for me.
Why it helps me
Gratitude is strongly and consistently associated with greater happiness. And I like to practice gratitude not because it helps make me happy, but because it is something I can…
