My gratitude grows each day

Growth is a slow claim, and worth checking against reality. Some days it shrinks. You get bad news, or you slept badly, and the whole practice feels like decoration.

What actually accumulates isn't the feeling — it's the reflex. The speed at which you find something. Early on it takes a minute of hunting. Later it takes a second, because you've built up a stocked list.

That's an unglamorous kind of growth, and it's the only kind that survives years.

Don't check whether you feel more grateful than last month. Check how long it took you to think of something today.