"I'm big on gratitude," Grede says. She practices this by using The Five Minute Journal by Intelligent Change ($29). Grede bookends her day without her phone for an hour. She realized that her mind fills with ideas and thoughts when she puts the phone down. "It's almost like such a nice record to have after a while. When you've been doing that for years, you really have to find the small things, and so it really works in terms of balancing your day and giving you focus on the right things," she says. "It becomes a very useful tool to retrain your mind and focus on what's great."
Pro Tip: "Start small; don't try and bite off more than you can chew, and don't let it overwhelm you. When I started this, I would literally write just a few words. Let it be something that you look forward to and also just something that you read back on," she says.
