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.