UrBestSelf The 6-Minute Diary (The Original) | Gratitude

I bought this book because a few months ago I was feeling quite low and despite not really being a ‘gratitude diary kinda person’ felt at the time that I had to do something so gave it a go.

Honestly it’s really helped and having now completed it it’s amazing how much you gain from doing something like this daily.

Whether you like journaling or not these 6 questions each day feel achievable and there is no pressure to write reems of info, keep it short and focused. I particularly liked the extra questions you get every 5 weeks that are really thought provoking.

Having to document something means you put the effort into changing your behaviour and attitude and it also then forms a lovely momento of your journey and I’m in the process now of reading all I’ve put over the last few months. It’s so interesting to look back at the highs and lows and shifts.

I highly recommend this little book if you are feeling low, lost, negative or generally feel you could do with some support to shift your mood.

This is by far the best diary/journal I have ever seen and used in my life. Is perfectly crafted, full of very well thought of and intentional content and the quality of the journal is great. Will buy again when I finish it.

I added this to my morning routine a month ago and I have found it easy to write in every morning and it is a good tool for training my mind to start each day positively. I find it less easy to return to every evening but I do it when I remember. Overall I’m very impressed with this. It also links to a newsletter from the company which is good.

Love this 6-Minute diary! It’s a wonderful tool and resource to help one stay grounded in gratitude and to make positive changes to their life and its trajectory.

This diary is packed with on point knowledge, information and wisdom to set you up for an upgrade and positive transformation with daily insightful and inspiring quotes to set you up for the day ahead!

Wholeheartedly recommend this diary to anyone embarking on a personal transformational development journey.

Huge THANK YOU to Dominik and his team at urbestself

Disclaimer: I was already a daily gratitude “practitioner” before getting this diary. What I really like is the simplicity to implement. All you need is 3m in the morning and 3m in the evening, that’s it. For me shifting thinking about gratitude in the morning and making me thing how I can be in control of my day before I actually start the day itself was really impactful. A lot of the planners out there function as “calendar” based, but most people have their calendar in their phones / email. I wanted something to allow me to retrospect and keep an eye on the positive habits I want to implement and this diary is precisely what I was after.
Also love the weekly questions and challenges, which so far have not been repetitive. I wish there was a version just to keep it going without the intro of the concepts for those of us that just want to carry this on.
I will probably buy the kids edition too for my 7y old

I am not one for diary’s or journals but I decided to give this a go. I have used it every morning and evening since getting it. I like the fact that it makes me think about the day and what I am grateful for and how I can improve my life.
The only thing I would slightly change for subsequent purchases is the amount of reading at the front. It’s great for your first one but maybe for subsequent purchases there could be a summary instead?

This diary is simply gorgeous. The amount of time, effort, love, thought, and knowledge that has gone into it outstanding. The author really cares about the statistics and process about living a happier life and creating positive habits. Only downside for me would be that beginning NOVEL Yeesh. It’s so long. 70+ pages long to be exact. I read all of it as it states in the diary to read it all as it will be helpful in the long run and will help you get the best use out of the diary – I bought another one of these as a gift for somebody and they told me they didn’t read it due to how long it was, which is a shame as I feel they won’t get the same benefits as I will hopefully get from it having read it all. I feel it has far too much information and this could be cut down MASSIVELY. It was hard not to just simply skip it all and get straight to the morning and evening routine. Sadly, for this reason, I wouldn’t buy this diary again as a gift.

I have been using Hal Elrod’s The Miracle Morning Journal with excellent results for the past three years. This Christmas I bumped into Dominik Spenst’s The 6-Minute Diary, and I have been using it for just one week. I can hardly believe it, but it’s even better than The Miracle Morning!

I love The Miracle Morning – I will continue to use it and to recommend it every time I can, because I know how good it is.
But The 6-Minute Diary is in a different plane — deeper, wiser, more inspiring and revealing. The prompts are so well thought-out that in just the space of a week I have made two discoveries that completely reframed important aspects of my productivity and my relationships. The 6-Minute Diary is also much more pleasant to work with -and to look at- than The Miracle Morning — much as I love it, The Miracle Morning has all the charms of an accountant’s spread sheet (and they haven’t bothered to improve the layout in years) whereas The 6-Minute Diary has been crafted and designed with an artist’s sensibility. Am I being superficial by pointing out such things? I don’t think so. This is a tool you will be using every single good or bad, happy or sad day of the year, so it only helps that it is a beauty to open and look at. I know the beautiful pages make me more thoughtful and considerate when I write in themi.e. they nudge me to think harder before I spoil their pristine surface. Is it only me? If you had to scribble a note, however short and simple, would it make any difference if you were writing on the corner of the back page of yesterday’s newspaper or on a sheet of lovingly prepared vellum? This is what I mean — you’d force yourself to think a bit deeper before you spoiled the page. And that only helps when reflection is the whole point of the exercise.

I have read hundreds of Self-Help books, and taken too many courses. I have certificates on NLP, Mindfulness and Erikssonian Hypnosis, read and written extensively on Psychoanalisis, Theory of Knowledge and CBT. And this is why I can say that the 64-page introductory section that Dominik Spenst has prepared for The 6-Minute Diary –which you could skip, but I would urge you to read attentively- is the briefest, more engagingly written and scientifically supported introduction to the topics of Positive Psychology, Habits and Self-Reflection anywhere. I was already impressed by this when a few days after I bought the Diary, Mr Spenst sent me via email a very pretty and useful pdf titled The Golden Morning Routine, which he personally sends to all customers, and which comprises five scientific arguments for the beneficial effect of a morning routine, as well as examples of the morning routines of 25 successful people, from politicians and other pop stars to Marcus Aurelius, Stephen Covey and Immanuel Kant.
The 6-Minute Diary promises to be “a priceless journey into the most exciting and emotional realms of your own memory” and to allow you to “follow the footsteps of your personal evolution”(p.15). I believe it will deliver. Having only used it for a week, I’m already looking forward to more discoveries with The 6-Minute Diary as my companion.