I like that it's things you do, rather than just things out of the blue that you are supposed to feel you "are". Actions are harder to fight with than just random thoughts like, "I am smart". I like your T's suggestion because it helps one pay attention to what one is doing, rather than thinking. Too, you can do it backwards :-) and think of something nice to do and then do it!

I'm reading a book and one of the main characters, an old man/father, has a stroke and the physical therapist tells his wife to give him a massage and she's shocked, says no way can she and the therapist tells her it doesn't have to be a formal massage, just touch! Everyone needs touch, an infant will die if it's not touched. But I forget this and how, when my mother was old I massaged her back once and it was great for me too. Now I try to remember to daily give my husband's shoulders a rub and a pat :-) and yesterday he was really grateful and let me know how good it felt and that made me feel even better; it's an upward spiral; not all the little good things we do will get good responses from others but some will and all of them will train us to do more little good things and enjoy them for ourselves.