A Gratitude Diary Can Change Your Life!
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Gratitude - The First Step in The Law of Attraction
This Costs Nothing, and Takes Only 5 minutes Each Day
This is a very powerful, easy technique to change your life, become more positive, happy and content, and attract everything you want.
And it's FREE! And Easy. It is part of the Law of Attraction, and talked about in The SecretDVD.
And it's not just airy fairy stuff. There's lots of scientific research being done now on Gratitude, and my blog Gratitude Diary has lots of info.
Contents :
What IS a GRATITUDE DIARY??
Recognising Things to be Grateful for
Here's exactly how a Gratitude Diary works
We become what we think about - Napoleon Hill
G R A T I T U D E
How to Pay Bills with a Smile on your Face :-)
Gratitude Links
Further Reading...
How Has An Attitude of Gratitude Changed YOUR Life?
What IS a GRATITUDE DIARY?
It is simply a diary you keep everyday, where you list things or people in your life to be grateful for.
Recognising Things to be Grateful For
When you are in the Gratitude mindset, you will recognise lots of things to be grateful for.These can include everyday things you take for granted (Examples - enjoying the sunshine, having a hot shower, sleeping in a comfortable bed, are all pleasures that most of us don't appreciate anymore), as well as all the new 'goodies' you are attracting to yourself.
Last week, in 3 days, for example, a friend took myself, my partner and my son to dinner - and paid for all of us. The next night, I was given tickets to dinner and a show by another friend. AND I entered a competition to win tickets to see a show, and - you guessed it, I won them.
The spiralling effect of gratitude is awesome - the more you appreciate, the more you get!
Here's exactly how a Gratitude Diary works :
1. Every day, write down 5 things you are grateful for. It can be anything - feeling the sunshine on your face, happy that a friend phoned, receiving a present, being able to take a walk, anything. Work out a time to do this. Ideally, around the same time every day works best.2. Make a commitment to yourself that you will write down 5 things every day - this is very important.
4. The 5 things MUST be DIFFERENT each time. Never repeat anything. NEVER REPEAT ANYTHING!
5. Smile as you write them down. This will help you to feel grateful.
6. You can write a lot about each thing, get really detailed, write why you are grateful for it. Or if you don't have time, just write one line.
What Will Happen
The Effects of A Gratitude Diary
The second day, knowing you must find 5 new things to write down, you'll start to look for things to be grateful for.
As the days go by, you'll experience a shift in your attitude. You'll begin to expect things to happen to be grateful for.
As more days pass, there will be another shift. You'll start to recognize when things happen to be grateful for.
Another shift will take place when you start to feel grateful at the time the event takes place.
This is when the miracle of gratitude will really start happening for you.
From experience, I would say that this process will take about one month. Keep it going for at least this length of time and you will see changes start to happen in your life.
Don't stop the gratitude diary at this point, no matter how good things are going. Never stop!
We become what we think about - Napoleon Hill
This is easily reversed by starting a Gratitude Diary. For people who complain a lot, finding things to be grateful for will be difficult at first. A little perseverance over a month or so, for 5 minutes each day will turn that attitude around, and miracles will start to occur in life.
G R A T I T U D E
GROW.RELEASE.
APPRECIATE.
THANK.
INSPIRE.
TREASURE.
UNDERSTAND.
DELIGHT.
EXPECT.
How To Pay Bills With a Smile on Your Face :-)
We all hate that time of month where we sit down and pay all our bills, watching the bank account go down, or the credit card go up.Like attracts like, so when you feel awful paying bills, you'll attract more of that.
So here's a simple way to turn that around next time you pay a bill :
Before you pay it, sit down and write out all the good things that this product or service did or is doing for you. What did it enable you to do? What would have happened if you didn't have it?
Did it help you to achieve something? What did you learn? Are there benefits for the future ?
Smile while you're writing, and you'll soon start feeling grateful for this product or service.
An example is your electricity bill. I'm always grateful when I pay it, because electricity enables me to cook, to play CDs, to have long hot showers, read at night, watch TV, cool or warm the house, keep my food fresh, use my computer and make a living. WOW! Where would I be without it?
Now that you're feeling grateful or amazed, now pay it. If writing a cheque, add a smiley face to it. If paying online, say "thank you".
Gratitude Links
- My Gratitude Diary BLOG
- Information about the research being done into Gratitude, tips to help you become happy and content, information to help turn your life around.
Further Reading.. :-)
How Has an Attitude of Gratitude Changed YOUR Life?
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scar4
Dec 3, 2010 @ 1:31 am | delete
- It brings me more affection and love form others. Good topic!
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JoyfulPamela
Sep 11, 2010 @ 6:41 am | delete
- What lovely ideas! I have much gratitude to you for sharing them! : ) I'm adding this to "Be Joyful!"
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mallison250688 Feb 16, 2010 @ 6:16 am | delete
- This is a great lens! We really do take so much for granted and if we don't consciously begin being grateful, we become the opposite - ungrateful. Great idea!
I'd like to invite you to visit my lens at www.squidoo.com/livesimpler
Thanks.
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bloomingrose
Feb 2, 2010 @ 12:14 pm | delete
- Wonderful, gratitude truly helps us plants the seeds of our happiness.
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Margo
Dec 10, 2009 @ 9:59 pm | delete
- A friend has just showed me her Gratitude Diary - she keeps it online on Facebook for everyone to see... great idea, and spreads the word. Gratitude diaries are just so.... powerful!
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penzu
Oct 19, 2009 @ 5:34 pm | delete
- Great article! If you want to keep a gratitude diary online, a fabulous and free site is Penzu (http://penzu.com)-it looks just like a paper diary and saves as you go!
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Margo
Dec 10, 2009 @ 10:10 pm | delete
- Thanks for that - I'm grateful. Penzu looks great. :-)
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Libby_Gill
Sep 16, 2009 @ 9:53 am | delete
- This is a very nice lens. You share some helpful information here. I'd love it if you'd stop by my lens and say hello when you get the chance.
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cerenity
Jul 16, 2009 @ 11:07 am | delete
- very nice work
please check out mine and comment
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Astrieanna May 19, 2009 @ 12:53 pm | delete
- I just encounter a reference to the mysterious concept of a "gratitude journal" -- thanks for explaining clearly what it is.
With so many people giving their testimonials of the cool stuff this does, I've decided to try it. =D
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