Changing Your Perspective: The Power of Finding 3 Positive Things.
- Brett Christensen
- Mar 22
- 2 min read
There was a time when my thoughts felt heavy—when every day seemed to stack more problems, more stress, more frustration.
Like most people, I turned to journaling as a way to get things out of my head. But after a while, I noticed something important.
Most of what I was writing… was negative.
Every page became a record of what went wrong. What frustrated me. What didn’t work. And without realizing it, I was training my mind to focus on the bad.
That’s when I made a simple decision that changed everything.
I challenged myself to find 3 positive things every single day.
At first, it wasn’t anything big.
Some days it looked like:
The sun was shining
I was alive
I was healthy
That was it. Nothing deep. Nothing life-changing. Just small, simple truths.
But something started to shift.
As I kept doing it—day after day—I began to notice more. Things I would’ve ignored before suddenly stood out. A good conversation. A moment of peace.
Progress, even if it was small.
What I realized is this:
What you focus on grows.
When I focused on the negative, my world felt negative. When I trained my mind to look for the positive, my perspective began to change.
And that didn’t mean life got easier overnight.
Challenges were still there. Stress didn’t disappear. But my ability to handle it improved—because I wasn’t only seeing what was going wrong. I was also seeing what was working.
That’s the difference.
This isn’t about ignoring reality. It’s about balancing it.
It’s about choosing to see the full picture.
And it starts with something simple:
Each day, write down 3 positive things.
No matter how small. No matter how simple.
Just start.
Because over time, those small shifts create something bigger:
A new mindset.
A stronger outlook.
A different way of seeing your life.
And that can change everything.
“If you’re ready to start shifting your perspective, start simple. Start with 3 positive things today.
And if you want a place to build that habit daily, the My Perspective Journal was created for exactly that.
Because small changes, repeated daily, create a completely different road ahead.”
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