“I started sending my husband a text message with three to four good things… I wasn’t asking, was today good? I was asking what was good in today?”

HBR IdeaCast · Optimism Is Now an Essential Leadership Skill

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Each night sends her husband a text listing three to four good things that happened that day, without expecting a response

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