"Yesterday was a good day."

I started journaling on a daily basis about a year ago.

My journal entries can run short or long, touching on the special celebrations or unexceptional banalities of life, but they always start with the same sentence - "Yesterday was a good day."

While it wasn't something I wrote intentionally at first, each of my entries now starts in this manner. By forcing myself to start with this one sentence, I must immediately consider and discuss that which is good in my life. And there's certainly plenty of good.

If journaling isn't part of your daily practice, I might recommend trying it out. Even if it's just writing this one sentence, you might be surprised where it leads.

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