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.