What's with the new blog?

The goal for myself with regard to this blog is to post one good thing each day. The point of it is to try to stay more positive than I have been as of late. I have a tendency to focus on the negative aspects of life, and for the last year or so I have been doing this a lot. I think it would be good for me to try to focus more on the positive side of things and this seems like a good thing to try to accomplish that goal. If I know I need to post something at the end of the day, I will probably be on the lookout for something good I can post about during the day and that little change will hopefully have a subtle effect on me throughout the day. Of course, the hope is that a bunch of little subtle effects will ripple throughout the day, which will in turn build up over weeks and months to hopefully just make me a happier person in general. I have no idea if it will work, but I am hopeful.

I plan to just post from my phone, there is a simple blogger app I was able to get off the play store. which means the posts will be short and simple. I don't think I'll be messing with posting pictures or any other media or anything. Just a quick post, possibly just a title sometimes, I don't know. 

I'm also not sure that anyone else will care about this, I don't really expect to get traffic. So why even put this on a blog? Why not just write it to a word file or something? The main reason is that if I plan to put it on a local file I won't wind up doing it. It's easy to skip a day, which leads quickly to never doing it at all. If I am publishing it to a blog I will feel like I am committed to posting something and I will have a much higher chance of getting it done (hopefully this isn't the only post to this blog).

One other point I want to make, I am aware that this isn't an original idea. I picked up the idea from somewhere, but I can't completely remember the source. I think it was a TED talk I watched a while ago, but I'm not sure. The point being, this is really for me. It would be awesome if someone read it and felt like they got something out of it, but that isn't the point here. The point is to help me get a slightly more positive view of the world. I hope it works, we'll just have to see.