March 31st, 2023 

Hello there, everybody! 
I hope this post finds you well! I had a personal project that I wanted to do and I never got the time to do it physically. This morning, I thought, wait, this is a great idea to do for my blog! 

What is it? 

As you can read from the title, I’ve been trying to make a positivity journal. I am not a very positive person towards myself, and I’ve been trying to change that. I have very difficulties with Automatic Thoughts as brilliantly explained from this one amazing YouTube channel called: WatchWellCast (link here). 

Basically, automatic thoughts are your negative thoughts that spiral into assuming the worse and can lead to depression, etc. It’s a bit late for me, I guess, because I’m pretty sure I do have depression. 

Personally, as a new teacher at least, or maybe as myself, I tend to see bad things about my teaching and I tend to think that I am not good enough, etc. The imposter syndrome in me is VERY strong, I think. My automatic thoughts are often along the lines of: “because they didn’t participate in my activity, my students did not enjoy my class, they hate me. They will never pass because of me and my bad teaching. They will…” etc. etc. While WatchWellCast tells you to write down your upsetting events and wants you to reason through your automatic thoughts (all those are GOOD IDEAS, by the way), I’ve decided to do something that I did for my final internship: record positive things that happened, ideally once per day, in order to make sure I don’t only view the negative part of my day. 

Why does this affect this blog? 

A lot of my coworkers applauded the idea, but I told them this in January 2023, and I’ve physically written maybe 2 entries since then. I talk big game but… it seems like I cannot deliver…? 

Well, I was thinking that I have the WordPress app on my phone, and I also have easy access to WordPress on any computer. It might be easier to make a Positivity Journal if I don’t have to carry it around as much. 

I’m now introducing my Posivity Journal V.02. I’m still pondering on if I want to post once per month to keep this blog alive, if I want to post on the very day of, which is very uncharacteristic of me, or if I want to schedule the journal for the year later. It would make things very chaotic, but I think I like the latter. It would encourage me to read what positive things happened the year before if it publishes after. 

Will it change the content of this blog? 

No, it shouldn’t, because I still intend on making other website recommendation and recording. 

Yes, because you will have notifications of my posts more regularly starting next year (potentially, if I can find time to type out quick posts). 

Thank you for understanding and thank you for your patience! 
PV