Is This Anything? 22
Recently I've been getting into Gratitude Patrols. People talk about gratitude journals as being one of the few provably impactful psychological interventions [citation needed], but I think there's a benefit to physically embodying it by walking around your space each morning and thanking things.
If you have a larger space then making a goal of "go into every room and thank something" might make sense, or in a smaller space something like "walk around the entire perimeter and thank 6 objects along the way."
I find that the physical space presents great embodiments of a lot of the things I'm grateful for, and reminders of lots of small things I should be grateful for but usually forget to be. I thank my cooking appliances for the food I eat, I thank my pointless expensive items for the fact I'm rich enough to have some pointless expensive items, I thank my slippers for being slippers because I really really love slippers. I genuinely believe this improves my baseline happiness.
Sometimes I fall asleep while listening to an audiobook. I know I fell asleep because other people in the room tell me I was snoring. But I swear I heard the book the entire time, I didn't skip any of the story (though admittedly haven't tested this with a plot quiz afterwards). What is going on there?!?
A great way to sound authoritative is to say your opinion and then casually add "I'm speaking in a private capacity here, not on behalf of the President". This is factually accurate even (especially!) when there's no actual reason you might be speaking on behalf of the President.