Hello, and happy New Year! I hope everyone has had enjoyable holidays and is ready for what 2018 will bring.

A friend shared an idea on FB and I really like it, so I will share it with you.

1. Take a nice empty jar (if all else fails a recycled pickle glass will do). I'll take the jar my godson made me (see above) and remember how good the homemade jam tasted.
2. Write something good that happened on a piece of paper once every week (designate a favourite weekday such as Friday - there is a reason it's called TGIF, no?) and pop it in the jar.
3. Then at the end of the year you can read all the little notes and have something positive to remember 2018 by!

Et voilà, one simple jar and you've wrapped a few important positive psychology concepts all into one (gratitude, pleasure, savouring, reminiscing, appreciation of beauty - well, if it isn't the old pickle jar, anyway).