I’ve started weaving this new journaling practice into my workday start up and shut down routines. I simply start my day with a few gratitude-forward questions and then bring them back out to reflect on the day before I close my laptop each evening. 

There’s four practices I’ve been testing out – Morning Routine, Workday Startup Routine, Workday Shutdown Routine and Evening Routine. These are baked into one of my 2021 planners and has been interesting to explore. When I started this practice it was clunky at first. Ya know, like riding a bike. I needed practice. I needed to get my balance. But now that I’m a novice rider, I can go through these routines with ease and not too much wobble.