Hope rocks (1). It makes us more motivated to act! One of the ways I try to build my hope muscle every day is to review all the good things that are happening in my life.

And because I’m a nerd, I have a kind of database with a journal of all the lovely tiny achievements and things that happened in my life. Each day, I open that database (2) and it shows lovely things from my life that happened yesterday, a week ago, a year ago, and so on.

It’s pretty nice because it shows me how fucking blessed I am. And it shows me also how things have changed! (3).

In my tiny newsletter, I end each edition with 3 positive news from elsewhere. That’s another way to remind to build my hope muscle, and hopefully to help others do so.

Action question

What would be a simple enough system to keep track of the nice things that happen in your life or your company that can help you build your own hope muscle? Where and with who could you share more positive things, to build the hope muscle of others?

Footnotes

(1) That’s something I already shared in another principle called “Rebuild Your Hope By Seeing All What Has Changed”

(2) For the nerds, it’s a set of Notion databases.

(3) For example, one of the big wins of my life when my child was very young was that we could play the same game for 15 seconds! That was a huge thing for me back then!

Daniele's notes

• This is the first shitty draft of this principle

• This principle might one day make it in the fifth book in the "Service Design Principles" series that explores how to better serve humans and the planet.

• If you're curious about service design principles, you can get the four previous books in the series, with proofread principles and less grammatical creativity.