It is good to take an inventory of happy…

It is good to take an inventory of happy moments and situations you have already experienced. This serves to remind you to be grateful. It also reminds you that all tough times end, just like good times.

— from The Air Traffic Controller (God)

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Begin each day with thanks, before the day makes a single demand. Name the flight you were handed back. It helps enormously to keep a running inventory of the happy moments you have already lived, because that is what reminds you, on a grey morning, that there is anything to be grateful for at all; after a good trip with the people you love, sit down together and write the list of the moments you most want to remember. Practicing gratitude is not a slogan but a daily reflection you actually sit down and do. — The Air Traffic Controller (God)

Reflect daily, but reflect — don't brood. Spend a few minutes each night on a handful of honest questions; just be sure you are evaluating to improve, not circling to torment yourself. Take a yearly inventory. Do an annual review of what went right and wrong, and keep a running list of your blessings and the things you have already endured and overcome. Know your foundations. Name your strengths, your values, where you belong, and what you can contribute; find them by reflecting on when you did your best work. — The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection)

Make an actual list of the five things that reliably give you the most happiness and fulfillment, and then guard time in your week for them. Keep an inventory of the happy moments you've already had; it makes you grateful, and it quietly reminds you that hard stretches end the way the good ones do. Above all, devote your time and energy to what you enjoy, because excellence follows enthusiasm, and almost nothing done purely for prestige ever satisfies. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)

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