The Weekly Minute - 3 Little Things

Instructions for 3 little things.
(You'll need a pen and paper)

1. When you're getting ready for bed tonight, take a minute to check in. 
2. Review your day and find 3 ways you made yourself proud. (Did you let someone out in traffic? Did you buy a friend a coffee? Did you keep your cool when things got hairy at work?) No matter how big or small they seem, find 3 things.
3. Write them down, the act of committing them to paper will help you remember them.
4. If, in the process of the review, negative things come to mind, try to extend a little self-compassion to yourself. - No-one's perfect!

We can spend a lot of time judging ourselves, and being critical of what we see. This can be helpful for self-improvement, but too much of it can be harmful, and it just doesn't give a realistic view of who we are. Many of us tend to see the worst in ourselves, and it's good practice to correct that balance and see the good as well. You might find you're better than you think!

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"...we’re sometimes in danger of falling prey to an excessive version of self-criticism — what we might call self-flagellation: a rather dangerous state, which just ushers in depression and underperformance. We might simply lose the will to get out of bed.
For those moments, we need a corrective — we need to carve out time for an emotional state of which many of us are profoundly suspicious: self-compassion." -Alain de Botton

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