Slow Down!

Our days rush by faster as we get older. It's normal, but, of course, frustrating. "Where did the year go?" we ask, and two minutes later it"s "I can't wait for this semester to be over," or "Can we just skip to Thursday, please?"
This living-for-the-weekend thing is the reason we can't remember anything in between. Because Monday morning through Friday afternoon is just nothing, and "life" is pretty much just a third of the week.
I get it. Not everyone can have a job they love (I don't like my job either), and nothing you do at work seems worth remembering. Or maybe you're still in school all day. Either way, when you get home, you're too tired, yada yada yada.

I'm not saying you have to change anything. If you're fine with feeling like your life isn't going anywhere, go right ahead. But if you're like me, and the idea of not being able to remember a single interesting or unique thing you did or experienced yesterday is a sign of doom, I'd invite you to try something I've been doing for the past two years.

Every day, I write down one thing that made my day, that is, made it a day of its own. It doesn't even have to be a good thing, but most of the time it is. It's almost never a "big deal." Sometimes it's that I ate pasta two meals in a row. Or that I drew a picture I really liked. Maybe I woke up and my bed was super comfortable, or I saw an impressive cloud. I write these things straight on my calendar, since whatever I write will almost always fit into a little box. Then at the end of the year, I have a record of 365 days, even if all I managed to write for some of them was "I lived," or "made it through work."

In my own experience, it keeps me from looking too far ahead, and helps me focus on paying attention to what happened today, to what is happening now.
I associate this with minimalism because it's the same counter-cultural idea of being aware. There's not a big leap between paying attention to the way you use your stuff and paying attention to the way you use your time.