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Start a Gratitude Doodle Journal
For the past year and a half, when I wake up in the morning, I have been coming up with three things to be grateful for, three random things - mundane/silly things like ping pong balls, electric outlets and rhinos (not that I have a rhino, I’m just grateful they exist).
Starting your day with gratitude is supposed to trigger your mind into having a more positive approach to the day. It was working, then the pandemic hit, but I kept it going - driving my kids crazy, yet on mornings when I did not announce it out loud -they’d ask me what I picked for the day.
On the morning of November 30th this year, I grabbed this black & white marble composition book (which I was trying to turn into an art journal) and doodled the three things I was grateful for. It was Scissors, Winter Hats and Looking Out My Window. I took a quick photograph of the page and threw it up on Instagram and Facebook and a bunch of people sent me a note about what a good idea it was, so I did it again the next day and the next...
Then I brought the book into the shop and made this one, for Dec 4, having a bit of fun and a lot of people commented and sent me notes that their kids were loving seeing these and I should keep it up.
After all the positive feedback, I decided to keep doing it every day - and I kept it up until February 4th, which is the day I had root canal, which wiped me out. So, I decided to take a break for one week and then restart on February 11. Here are a few more of the pages. I will keep adding to this post as I create more pages and if I can figure out how to embed videos, I’ll post the monthly flip throughs I have been doing.
If you’d like to start your own gratitude doodle journal, here are a few tips.
- Pick a sketchbook or journal that you don’t mind looking at every day, because you’re gonna need to have it with you all the time.
- Come up with the three things early in the day - and sketch out the full page in pencil before you start committing to any pen work.
- Get yourself a set of nice fine-line colored markers. I use the Triplus Fineliners. They come in a wide variety of colors and are perfect for doodling ordinary objects.