The Jar of Awesome (Daily Win Collection)

What is The Jar of Awesome (Daily Win Collection)?

Keep a jar on your desk. Every time something good happens — any win, compliment, achievement, beautiful moment, or stroke of luck — write it on a slip of paper and drop it in the jar. On bad days, pull out 3 random slips and read them. Physical evidence that your life is good.

Is there evidence for it?

How do you do The Jar of Awesome (Daily Win Collection)?

1. 1.Get any jar or container. Keep it visible on your desk with a stack of small paper slips and a pen next to it
2. 2.When something good happens — you finish a project, someone pays you a compliment, you have a great meal, you see a beautiful sunset, you learn something new — write it down and drop it in
3. 3.Be specific: not 'good day' but 'Sarah told me my presentation was the best she's seen this quarter.' Specificity makes it vivid when you re-read it
4. 4.On bad days, anxious days, or days when you feel like nothing is going right: reach into the jar and pull out 3-5 random slips. Read them. Feel the accumulated evidence that good things happen to you regularly
5. 5.Tim Ferriss (who popularized this): 'When I look at my Jar of Awesome after a few months, I realize my life is way better than my anxiety tells me it is.' The jar is a physical antidote to negativity bias

How long does it take?

30 seconds per entry.

Is it hard to start?

easy.

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