Do you remember your last adventure?
Remember your happy moments and train your brain to be positive (3 mins)
Take a minute now, close your eyes (not if you're walking), and try to remember your most recent adventure.
Can you remember all the little details? For a moment, feel as if you're there?
Chances are, you can't.
When I completed my first proper adventure a few years ago, I felt I lost a big part of what happened during that month. The small moments of gratitude and happiness that were too small to remember.
As I returned to my everyday life, I stopped thinking about it.
Years later, in 2019, I started a habit that solved it. Every day, I would write down all the moments that made me happy, grateful, or were in any way cool.
It took five minutes from my day, and it was easy to do. And so it stuck with me.
I didn't realize how big of a deal it was for me until I sat down at the end of the year and read through all 442 entries from the previous six months.
It was an emotional rollercoaster. In a few hours, I went through happy moments from multiple months. I was grateful.
Toda, I can vividly remember any of my adventures from the past two years. I can find the date in my Jar of Awesomeness and go entry by entry, day by day. The highlights I read flow like a story, and my brain remembers and fills the gaps.
Today, my Jar Of Awesomeness has 4,137 entries, and I'll be adding writing this email in a small bookstore café in Belgrade as the 4,138th.
For a long time, I used the default notes app on my phone to capture it. It was good, but it could be better.
A few months ago, I built a Telegram bot.
Now I open the chat, type in the happy moment, and it's automatically saved, together with the date. I also added a daily reminder and a function that picks a random entry and shares it to make my day.
I recently opened it up for a few friends to test it out with me. Now, you can test it out too.
I recommend you test out the practice of capturing your happy moments on a daily basis, whether you're using the Jar Of Awesomeness bot, notes app on your phone, or a piece of paper.
You'll be able to remember a lot more, be more grateful, and train your brain to look for the positive.
Until next time,
Zee, the remote hobo.