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How grateful are you for the things in your life: your health, relationships, air that you breathe?\u00a0 It is easy to take these everyday–yet hugely important–things for granted.\u00a0 Even easier to take the littler things for granted.<\/p>\n
I just finished reading The Magic<\/a><\/em> by Rhonda Byrne, follow up to her super popular The Secret.\u00a0 Have your read it?<\/p>\n In this latest read in getting what you want from life, the focus is all on gratitude and how to have more of it.\u00a0 At first some of the exercises seemed a little cheesy, but I decided to stick with it.\u00a0 After all, what could it hurt?<\/p>\n The very first exercise is to write down a list of 10 things that you are grateful for and why.<\/strong>\u00a0 Like, “I am grateful for my home because it provides my family with a safe and loving place to live”.<\/p>\n Byrne stresses that the degree to which you feel the gratitude is of the utmost importance.\u00a0 Each exercise in the book is meant to simply bring more awareness to the things you are grateful for, or would like to bring more of into your life, and broaden your feeling of gratitude.<\/p>\n It is pretty amazing how feeling grateful <\/a>changes your attitude and even how you feel physically.\u00a0 As the saying goes, “like begets like”.\u00a0 If you think about something enough you essentially will it into existence.\u00a0 Maybe not magical in the story book sense, but it definitely gets your mind and body moving in the right direction for your desired outcome.<\/p>\n The Magic<\/a> has instilled some healthy patterns into my life.\u00a0 In the morning first thing when I wake up I automatically start listing the things that I am grateful for when my feet hit the floor.\u00a0 Sometimes before I am even out of bed.\u00a0 A pretty nice way to start the day.<\/p>\nTaking Stock of Gratitude<\/h3>\n