Day 18 - THE MAGICAL TO DO LIST

This Magical To-Do List practice will help you with any little day to day problems when you don’t know what to do, or when you simply want something to be done for you.  You will be amazed at the results!

Today, create a written to do list of the most important things you would like to be done or resolved for you, and title your list The Magical To Do List.  You might put things on your list that you don’t have time to do, or don’t want to do, along with any current problems, form the smallest day to day things to bigger life situations.  Think through any area of your life where you need something resolved or done for you.

When you’ve finished making your lit, choose three things from your list to focus on today, and one at a time imagine that each item has been magically done for you.  Imagine that all people, circumstances, and events have been moved to do it for you, and it is now done!  All done, all sorted, all solved for you, and you are giving massive thanks in return for it having been done.  Spend at least one minute on each of your three items, believing it is done, and feeling enormous gratitude in return.  You can follow the same practice on the rest of the times on your list at another time, but there is power in simply putting the things you want done on the Magical To Do List.

Day 17 - The Magic Cheque

However difficult it may be, you have to ignore your current situation and any lack of money you may currently be experiencing, and gratitude is the guaranteed way for you to do that.  You can’t be grateful for money and disappointed about money at the same time.  You can’t be thinking grateful thoughts about money and have worried thoughts about money at the same time.  Nor can you be grateful for money and have fearful thoughts about money at the same time.  When you’re grateful for money, not only do you stop the negative thoughts and feelings that push money away from you, you’re doing the very thing that brings more money to you.

Today’s magical practice for the money you want to receive has brought astounding results to many people.  At the end of this practice you will find a blank Magic Cheque from the Gratitude Bank of the Universe, and you are going to write out the Magic Cheque to yourself.  Fill in the amount of money you want to receive, along with your name and today’s date.  Choose a specific amount of money for one thing you really want, because you will be able to feel more gratitude for the money when you know what you’re going to spend the money on.  Money is a means to what you want, but it’s not the end result, so if you just thought about money per se you wouldn’t be able to feel as much gratitude.  When you imagine getting the things you really want, or doing the things you really want to do, you will feel far more gratitude than if you were just being grateful for money.

Day 16 - Magic and Miracles In Health

We should feel healthy, energized, and full of happiness most of the time, because that is how it feels to have our birthright of full health.  The reality, however, is that a lot of people don’t feel this way very often, if ever. Many people are dealing with illnesses, problems with the functioning of their body, or suffering from bouts of depression and other mental health problems, which are all states of less-than-full health.

STEP 1: Health You’ve Received (Past)

Think about the great health you have received throughout your childhood, adolescence, and adult life.  Think about the times when you felt full of energy, and you were happy.  Recollect three separate times in your mind when you felt on top of the world, say the magic words, thank you, and feel sincere gratitude for those times.  If you think back to the big moments in your life, you will be able to recollect three separate times very easily.

STEP 2: Health You’re Continuing to Receive (Present)

Think about the health you are continuing to receive today, and feel grateful for ever organ, system, and physical sense that is currently working well in your body.  Think about your arms, legs, hands, eyes, ears, liver, kidneys, brain, or heart.  Choose five functions of your body that are well, and one by one, mentally say the magic words, thank you, for each one.

STEP 3: Health you want to Receive (Future)

You’re going to choose one thing you want to improve about your body for today’s magical practice, but you are going to use gratitude’s magical power for it in a very particular way.  Think about the ideal state of what you want to improve.  When you give thanks for the ideal state of anything, you have put into motion to receive back that ideal state.

Recollect THREE separate times throughout your life when you felt on top of the world, and give sincere thanks for those times.

Think about FIVE functions of your body that ARE well, and one by one give thanks for each one.

Choose ONE thing about your body or health you want to improve, and spend one minute visualising yourself with the ideal state of your body or health.  Then give thanks for this ideal state.

Day 15 - Magically Heal Your Relationships

Choose ONE difficult, problematic, or broken relationship that you want to improve.

Sit down and make a written list of TEN things you’re grateful for about the person you’ve chosen.  Write it down in the following way:

1.     Name   , I’m grateful for     what   ?
2.     Name   , I’m grateful for     what   ?
3.     Name   , I’m grateful for     what   ?
4.     Name   , I’m grateful for     what   ?
5.     Name   , I’m grateful for     what   ?
6.     Name   , I’m grateful for     what   ?
7.     Name   , I’m grateful for     what   ?
8.     Name   , I’m grateful for     what   ?
9.     Name   , I’m grateful for     what   ?
10.     Name   , I’m grateful for     what   ?

If you chose a past relationship, where you are not in contact with the person anymore, you will feel a peace and happiness fill you, and at the same time you will see other current relationships in your life magically improve.

In the future, if a relationship becomes challenging, remember to use this magical practice immediately.  You will stop the difficulties before they get any bigger, and instead you will increase the magic in the relationship!

Day 14 - Have a Magical Day

To Have a Magical Day you need to feel good.  I don’t know of anything other than gratitude that guarantees to put you in a good mood almost immediately.

Whatever your plans are for the day today, whether it’s travelling, a meeting, work project, lunch, exercise, dropping off dry cleaning, playing sport, going to the theatre, meeting a friend, yoga, cleaning your house, going to school, or buying groceries, turn today into a magical day by saying the magic words, thank you, for each plan going well – before you live it!  If you’re a person who write daily lists of things you need to do, then you can go through your daily list and be grateful for each one having gone well.  Whether you do this magical practice in your mind or on paper, the most important thing is that you feel the result of each plan or activity was the best it could have been.

In the morning, work your way in your mind through the plans you have for the day and evening, until bedtime.  With each plan or event, say the magic words, thank you, for it having gone well.  Imagine that you’re saying thank you at the end of the day, and you’re immensely grateful because it went perfectly.

Day 13 - Make All Your Wishes Comes True

Sit down at a computer or with pen and journal, and list your top TEN desires.  Write thank you three times before each one, as though you’ve already received it. 

FOR EXAMPLE: Thank you, thank you, thank you for   your desire  !

Using your imagination, answer the following questions in your mind, as though you’ve received each of your ten desires:

1. What emotions did you feel when you received your desire?
2. Who was the first person you told when you received your desire, and how did you tell them?
3. What is the first great thing you did when you received your desire?  Include as much detail as you can in your mind.

Finally re-read the sentence listing your desire, and really emphasize the magic words, thank you, so that you feel them as much as you can.

If you like, create a MAGIC BOARD (VISION BOARD).  Cut out pictures and attach them to your VISION BOARD, and put it in a place you see often.  Title the board with THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU in big bold letters across the top.

Day 12 - Magical People Who Made a Difference

Everyone of use has received help, support, or guidance from other people at particular times in our life when we needed it most.  Sometimes another person alters the course of our life through their encouragement, guidance, or just being there at the right time.  And then life goes on, and we tend to forget those times when one person touched us or changed our life.  Sometimes you don’t even realise the impact a person had until well into the future, when you look back on your life and realise that a particular person was pivotal in magically changing the direction of your life for the better.

Today you are going to think about the magical people who have impacted your life.  Find a quiet place alone sometime during the day today, sti down, and think of three extraordinary people who have made a difference in your life.  Once you have your three people, work with one person at a time and talk out loud to each person as though they were present, telling him or her the reasons WHY you’re grateful to them, and how they affected the course of your life.

Find a quiet place alone sometime during the day, and make a list of THREE people who made a difference in your life.

Day 11 - A Magic Morning

From the moment you open your eyes until you’ve finished getting ready, say the magic words, thank you, in your mind for everything you touch and use.

AND – if you want to continue, use thank you when driving to and from work or when you see someone doing their job – it’s amazing how good you feel by the time you get to work.

Day 10 - Magic Dust Everyone

Today, sprinkle magic dust on TEN people who perform services you benefit from, by thanking them directly or otherwise by mentally acknowledging and thanking them.  Feel grateful to them for the service they perform.

Day 9 - The Money Magnet

Take any current unpaid bills you have, use gratitude’s magical power, and write across each one:  Thank you for the money. Feel grateful for having the money to pay the bill, whether you have it or not.

If you receive and pay most of your bills online, then when you receive an online bill forward it to yourself as an email and write in the subject line in capital bold letters, THANK YOU FOR THE MONEY!

Take TEN bills you’ve paid in the past, and write across the front of each one of them the magic words: “Thank you – Paid”.  Feel truly grateful that you had the money to pay the bill!

Day 8 - The Magic Ingredient

Before you eat or drink anything today, take a moment to look at what you’re about to eat or drink, and in your mind or out loud, say the magic words, Thank You!  If you want you can sprinkle your food or drink with magic dust.

Being grateful for the simple things in life, like food and water, is one of the deepest expressions of gratitude , and when you can feel that degree of gratitude, you will see the magic happen.

Day 7 - The Magical Way Out of Negativity

Are you grateful to be alive each day?  Or do you take your life for granted?

Taking things for granted results in complaining, negative thoughts and words.  So when you complain, by the law of attraction, you must bring more things into your life to complain about!

If you’re complaining about the weather, the traffic, your boss, your spouse, your family, a friend, a stranger, waiting in lines, bills, the economy, the cost of something, or the service of a company, you are not being grateful, and you’re pushing your dream life further way with every complaint.

It’s impossible to be negative when you’re grateful.  It’s impossible to criticize and blame when you’re grateful.  It’s impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you’re grateful.  And the best news is that if you have any negative situations in your life currently, it won’t take a long period of a time to transform them with gratitude.  The negative situations will disappear in a puff of smoke – just like magic.

First, as difficult as it may be, you have to look for things to be grateful for in the negative situation.  No matter how bad things are, you can always find something to be grateful for, especially when you know that your gratitude will magically transform every negative circumstance.  Walt Disney, who knew about the true magic of life, showed us how to do this in his movie Pollyanna.

Disney’s 1960 move Pollyanna featured “The Glad Game”.  To play the game you look for as many things as you can to be glad about, especially in a negative situation. Buddha demonstrated the way to use the same magical power when he said:

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful”

As an example, your problem might be that you’re still out of work, and despite your best efforts, you’re still unemployed.  To magically turn this situation around, you have to do a concentrated practice of gratitude on the situation.  Here are some examples of what you might say:

1.        I am so grateful to have had more time for my family during this period

2.        I’m grateful that my life is in a lot better order because of the spare time I’ve had

3.        I’m grateful that I’ve had a job most of my life, and that I am experienced

4.        I am truly grateful that this is the first time I’ve been unemployed

5.        I’m grateful that there are jobs out there, and more new jobs are appearing each day

6.        I am grateful for all the things I’ve learned in applying for jobs and in going to interviews

7.        I am grateful that I have my health and that I can work

8.        I am grateful for my family’s encouragement and support

9.        I am grateful for the rest I’ve had, because I needed it

10.     I am grateful that through losing my job, I’ve realised how much having a job means to me.  I have never realised that until now.

As a result of the unemployed person’s gratitude, they will attract different circumstances, and their current situation must and will magically change.  The power of gratitude is greater than any negative situation, and there are unlimited ways that the negative situation can change.  All you have to do is practice gratitude and watch the magic take place.

Day 6 - Works Like Magic

You should love your job, whatever it is, and be excited about going to work, and you shouldn’t settle for anything less.  If you don’t feel that way about your current job, of it it’s not your dream job, the way to receive your dream job is by first being grateful for the job you have now.

Today, imagine that you have an invisible manager shows job it is to keep a record of the thoughts and feelings you have about your job.  Imagine that your manager will follow you wherever you go today, poised with pen and notebook in hand.  Every time you find something about your job to be grateful for, your manager will make a note of it.  Your job is to find as many things as you can to be grateful for so at the end of the day your manager has a long list of all your gratitude.  The longer the list is, the more magic your invisible manager can bring to your money, work, success, opportunities, enjoyment and fulfilment.

Think about all the things you could be grateful for in your work.  To begin with, think about the fact that you actually have a job!  Think about how many people are unemployed, who would give anything to have a job.  Think about the timesaving equipment you use, such as phones, printers, the Internet, and computers.  Think about the people you work with, and the friendships you have with them.  Think about the people who make your job easier, such as receptionists, assistants, janitors and delivery people.  Think about how good it feels when you receive your pay cheque and think about the favourite aspects of your job that you love doing.

Have your invisible manager make a note each time you find something you’re grateful for, by saying:

I’m so grateful for  ???

The more deeply your manager can see you’re feeling gratitude, the sooner your manager can start to make the magic happen in your work, and the more magic will be created.  It is possible that you could generate so much gratitude for your work in one day that you would see the circumstances instantly improve.  Lucky breaks don’t happen by accident.  They are simply gratitude’s magical power at work.

If this Works Like Magic practice falls on a weekend or when you’re not at work, move on the next day’s practice or practices, and then go back and use this magical practice on the first day you’re back at work.

5. MAGIC MONEY

If there is a lack of money in your life, understand that feeling worried, envious, jealous, disappointed, discouraged, doubtful or fearful about money can never bring more money to you, because those feelings come from a lack of gratitude for the money you have.  Complaining about money, arguing about money, getting frustrated about money, being critical of the cost of something, or making someone else feel bad about money are not acts of gratitude, and the money in your life can never improve; it will worsen.

Sit down and take a few minutes to think back through your childhood before you had any or much money.  As you recall each member where money was paid FOR you, say and feel the magic words, THANK YOU, with all your heart for each instance.

Did you always have food to eat?

Did you live in a home?

Did you receive an education over many years?

How did you travel to school each day?  Di you have schoolbooks, school lunches, and all the things you needed for school?

Did you go on any vacations when you were a child?

What were the most exciting birthday gifts you received when you were a child?

Did you have a bike, toys, or a pet?

Did you have clothes as you grew so quickly from one size to the next?

Did you go to the movies, play sports, learn a musical instrument, or pursue a hobby?

Did you go to the doctor and take medicine when you were not well?

Did you go to the dentist?

Did you have essential items that you used every day, like your toothbrush, toothpaste, soap and shampoo?

Did you travel in a car?

Did you watch television, make phone calls, use lights, electricity and water?

Take a $1.00 coin and write on a sticker that you place around the coin –

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE MONEY I’VE BEEN GIVEN THROUGHOUT MY LIFE.

Take the dollar with you today and put it in your wallet.  At least once in the morning and once in the afternoon, take it out and hold the Dollar Coin in your hands.  Read your written words and be TRULY grateful for the abundance of money you’ve been given in your life.  The more sincere you are, and the more you feel it, the faster you will see a miraculous change in the circumstances of your money.

If you find yourself in a situation where you’re about to complain about something to do with money, whether it’s through your words or your thoughts, ask yourself:  “Am I willing to pay the price for this complaint?”  Because that one complaint will slow or even stop the flow of money.

From this day forward make a promise to yourself that whenever you receive money, whether it’s your salary for work, a refund or discount, or something that someone gives you that costs money, you will be truly grateful for it.  Each of these circumstances means that you have received money, and each instance gives you an opportunity to use gratitude’s magical power to increase and multiply your money even more by being grateful for the money you’ve just received.

Have a gratitude kind of day.  Thank you.

Day 4 - MAGICAL HEALTH

On a piece of paper or card write the words: 

THE GIFT OF HEALTH IS KEEPING ME ALIVE.

Place the piece of paper with your written words where you know you will see it often today.

On at least FOUR occasions, read the words very slowly, and feel as grateful as you can for the precious gift of health!

Day 3 - MAGICAL RELATIONSHIPS

Today's magical practice is being grateful for people just as they are!  Even if all of your relationships are currently good, they will increase with your magnificence through this practice.  And with everything you find to be grateful for in each person, you will see gratitude perform its breathtaking magic, and your relatioinships will be stronger, more fulfilling, and more enriching than you ever thought they could be. 

Choose Three of your closest relationships to be grateful for.

Once you have selected three relationships you are ready to set the magic into motion.  Sit down and thin about the things you are most grateful for about each person.  What are the things you love the most about this person?  What are their best qualities?  You could be grateful for their patience, ability to listen, talents, strength, good judgment, wisdom, laugh, sense of humour, eyes, smile, a kind heart.  YOu could be grateful for the things you enjoy doing with the person, or you can recall a time when the person was there for you, cared for, or supported you.

On your computer choose the five things you are the most grateful for.  Look at a photograph as you make the list of five things, begin each sentence with the magic words Thank you, address the person by their name and then write what you're grateful for.

Thank you Kimberley for making me laugh

Thank you Kimberley for being so organised

Thank you Kimberley for not pushing too much when your father and I separated

Thank you Kimberley for showing me what the next generation are all about

Thank you Kimberley for being so outgoing that I have something to strive for.

Thank you Kimberley

Thank you Mum for being the strongest woman I've ever met

Thank you Mum for supporting me when I didn't really know what career choice to take

Thank you Mum for being there when I need you

Thank you Mum for not judging me when my marriage failed

Thank you Mum for being the best mum in the world

Thank you Mum

Thank you Ben for being laid back and relaxed

Thank you Ben for supporting me through the end of my marriage to your dad

Thank you Ben for doing things that you don't need to be asked to do

Thank you Ben for getting me all the TV shows I love and making it a joy to come home

Thank you Ben for taking on two jobs and realising your own dreams.

Thank you Ben.

Day 2 - THE MAGIC ROCK

"Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some" Charles Dickens.


First, find a rock or a stone.  Choose a small size that fits in the palm of your hand and that you can close your fingers around.  Choose a rock that is smooth, without sharp edges, not too weighty, and that feels really good in your hand when you hold it.
When you have found your Magic Rock, put it by your bedside.  Clear some space if necessary so that you can easily see your Magic Rock when you go to bed.
Just before you go to sleep, pick up your Magic Rock, hold it in the palm of one hand, and close your fingers around it.  Think back carefully through all the good things that happened during the day, and find THE BEST THING that happened that you're grateful for.  Then say the magic words Thank you, Thank you Thank you for the best thing that happened.  Return the Magic Rock to its place by your bed.
When you look for the best thing that happened during the day, you will search through many good things that happened, and in the process of searching and then deciding on the best one you are actually thinking of many things you're grateful for.  You will also be ensuring that you go to sleep and wake up in gratitude each day.

Counting Your Blessings in the morning and Magic Rock Moments at night ensure that you begin and end the day in gratitude.  Together they can change your life in a few months.  Gratitude is magnetic and attracts more things to be grateful for, the concentration of gratitude over 28 days will intensify the magnetic force of your gratitude.  When you have a strong magnetic force of gratitude, like magic, you automatically magnetize everything you want and need to you.

My Magic Rock Moment was...having my whole family at my place for Easter lunch.  I haven't had a family gathering at my house since my husband left and this was my first opportunity to enjoy a group of people who I feel comfortable with and love having them around.  An interesting side note was that my brother in law's mother passed away last week and he attended the gathering.  It wasn't difficult or an upsetting day.  It was fun loving and joyous.  We kept him involved in conversations and didn't skirt issues but we found that conversations didn't stop but instead flowed through a range of many topics that had us all laughing and generally enjoying each other's company.   I'm grateful for my family.

Day 1 - COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."  Willie Nelson
First thing in the morning make a list of TEN blessings in your life you are grateful for.

1. I am grateful for my daughter Kimberley who keeps me on my toes every day.
2. I am grateful for my son Benjamin who looks after me and doesn't take anything seriously.  
3. I am grateful for an easy separation - no real changes have occurred as yet so life goes on.
4. I am grateful that my husband is not a vindictive man and has made sure that his family is well taken care of.
5. I am grateful for my family who are both supportive and my sounding board.
6. I am grateful for job that I have that gives me the opportunity to work close to home.
7. I am grateful for my mind that gives me so many ideas for stories I just cannot stop.
8. I am grateful to my best friend Twiggy who keeps me grounded and doesn't let me go over the top.
9. I am grateful that I am now enjoying gardening and appreciating watching little plants grow into beautiful flowers.
10. I am grateful to Rhonda Byrne who wrote THE MAGIC and given me a completely new way to look at the world.