How I did it: I started off just mental-noting things that I realised made me happy. Then I started making them into a list, and I found that with each entry, I had at least 5 or 10 things in my mental bucket. With everything I wrote, I asked myself - does it really make me happy? Does thinking about/seeing/doing this thing make my day and improve my mood? If the answer was no, I figured it was just something that I liked, and I replaced it with something else.

Lessons & tips: Don't try and do it all in one go - you'll lose focus and end up with a list that isn't a true representation of what actually makes you happy. 

Resources: A notebook and pen. I found that I started writing things as I realised them.

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Oct 22, 2009, 12:45AM PDT | 0 comments | 3 cheers