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A Word About the Gratitude Habit.

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Habits have consequences. Good habits will take you down the road to all the things you want while bad habits will take you away from the things you want. In the beginning new habits of thoughts and/or action take effort and struggle until they become automatic habits. You struggled to learn to read and write but today you read and write effortlessly. You struggled to learn how to walk, swim and ride a bike. Today you do those things effortlessly. You will struggle to express gratitude but once it becomes an automatic habit of thought, expressing gratitude will be effortless for you. And the MIRACLES that will come into your life as a result of expressing gratitude will move you to tears and take your breath away. That's my guarantee to you. 



Related Articles:

• The Habit of Gratitude...

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• Change your life FAST.. (Gratitude MIRACLE)

(Explains why Gratitude is creating Miracles in people's lives)

• Gratitude Books

( Recommended books on gratitude.)

• Single Cause for Failure and Misery... 

(Explains why ingratitude attracts misery and failure)

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
 
How do you feel when people express gratitude towards you?
How do you feel when people express ingratitude towards you?
What do you want to do for people who express gratitude towards you?
What do you want to do to people who express ingratitude towards you? 

NOTE: Expressing gratitude towards God, the Universe or another person only works if it is genuinely and sincere. Expressing gratitude as a way to try to manipulate God, the Universe or another person never works. It it will only create bad karma for you.
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The Habit of Gratitude...

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A 'habit of thought' is nothing more than thoughts we repeat to ourselves over and over again until they became thoughts that run, on automatic pilot, in the background of our mind. Those thoughts require no conscious effort on our part. Unfortunately, many people have negative thoughts running in the background of their mind that torment and trouble them daily.  Thinking about those negative thoughts, resisting them, arguing with them or fighting them only makes them stronger. The only way to to dissolve negative habitual thoughts is to record over them with the positive thoughts until they become habitual.  The fastest way to change negative 'habitual thoughts patterns' into positive ones  is to start each day by listing 100 things, large or small, that you are personally and sincerely grateful for..  The more grateful I become, the more convinced I am that expressing gratitude is the MIRACLE cure for whatever ails us. It doesn't  matter if it is a physical illness, a lack of money or a bad relationship,  the gratitude practice is producing miracles in people's lives for no logical reason I can explain.



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This is my list today of 100 things I am grateful for. Sometimes my list is random and sometimes my gratitude list is specific about a person, place or thing. Today my gratitude list is about Nora.

 

1. I am grateful for my friendship with Nora.

2. I am grateful for the love I see in her eyes.

3. I am grateful for the wisdom in her heart.

4. I am grateful for her patience.

5. I am grateful for her understanding mind.

6. I am grateful for her ability to forgive.

7. I am grateful for her compassion.

8. I am grateful for her sensitivity.

9. I am grateful for the inspiration she is to me.

10. I am grateful for her kindness.

11. I am grateful for her gentle nature.

12. I am grateful for her smile.

13. I am grateful for her warm hugs.

14. I am grateful for her open heart.

15. I am grateful for the time she spends with me.

16. I am grateful for her personality.

17. I am grateful for her ability to heal myself and others.

18. I am grateful for her honesty and truthfulness

19. I am grateful for the purity of her heart.

20. I am grateful for her sense of humor.

21. I am grateful for the blueberries she shares with me.

22. I am grateful for the insights and wisdom she shares with me.

23. I am grateful she was my next door neighbor when we were kids.

24. I am grateful for her friendship.

25. I am grateful for her unconditional support of who I am.

26. I am grateful for her understanding of me.

27. I am grateful for her acceptance of me.

28. I am grateful that she is such a safe person to be around.

29. I am grateful for her sweetness.

30. I am grateful for her strength.

31. I am grateful she is my best friend.

32. I am grateful for her strong will.

33. I am grateful for her integrity.

34. I am grateful for her spirituality.

35. I am grateful for her gifts as a Spiritual Intuitive

36. I am grateful for her inner and outer beauty.

37. I am grateful for her creative writing abilities.

38. I am grateful how clearly she expresses herself.

39. I am grateful for her understanding of God.

40. I am grateful for the 'life lessons' I learn from her.

41. I am grateful for her sensitivity.

42. I am grateful for her inner LIGHT that shines on me.

43. I am grateful for the conversations I have with her.

44. I am grateful for her being available to me in my time of need.

45. I am grateful for her caring and generous heart.

46. I am grateful that I can talk to her about any subject without feeling shame.

47. I am grateful that she is so easy to trust.

48. I am grateful when I can be there for her when she needs someone.

49. I am grateful that she is a good receiver.

50. I am grateful that she is an excellent listener.

51. I am grateful for her friends and family members she has introduced me too.

52. I am grateful for the encouragement she gives me.

53. I am grateful that she is a fun person to hang out with.

54. I am grateful she is a strong woman.

55. I am grateful she knows who she is.

56. I am grateful that she allows me to make a difference in her life.

57. I am grateful she likes me, especially those times when I am not liking myself.

58. I am grateful for ability to see me and understand me.

59. I am grateful for her passion and how much she cares about people.

60. I am grateful for her humanity.

61. I am grateful her intelligence.

62  I am grateful she contacted me after not seeing each other for over 40 years.

63. I'm grateful for what she shares about her family, it makes me feel like family.

64. I am grateful for all the times we have enjoyed going out to lunch together.

65. I am grateful for her husband who allows me to have my friendship with her.

66. I am grateful for her ability to create beautiful things.

67. I m grateful, for reasons I cannot explain, that she likes my laugh.

68. I am grateful for the guidance she has given me when I needed it.

69. I am grateful that I can compliment her and she always takes it in the right way.

70. I am grateful that she is willing to have me as her good friend.

71. I am grateful she doesn't take me for granted.

72. I am grateful for the respect she shows me.

73. I am grateful for always feeling better for having spent time with her.

74. I am grateful for the many ways she inspires me..

75. I am grateful the beauty and dignity she expresses

76. I  am grateful for the 'aura of Royalty' she has around her.

77. I am grateful for the friends she has introduced me too.

78. I am grateful for the good things she has told people about me.

79. I am grateful to be able to express in words how incredibly special she is.

80. I am grateful God brought back into my life when I moved back to PA.

81. I am grateful that I can talk to her about anything in complete confidence.

82. I am grateful she is such a comfortable person to be around.

83. I am grateful for her softness.

84. I am grateful for how well Nora and I compliment each other.

85. I am grateful for her willingness to help others when they need help.

86. I am grateful for Nora's ability to be real.

87. I am grateful for the way she thinks.

88. I am grateful that I can give this 'gift of gratitude' to her.

89. I am grateful our relationship was born in innocence as little kids and continue to have that innocence, playful side after all of these years.

90. I am grateful that the hardship of life haven't made Nora jaded or cynical.

91. I am grateful for her open mind and willingness to talk about anything.

92. I am grateful for how connected she is to nature.

93. I am grateful for the love she has for mother earth.

94. I am grateful for her supernatural connection to the Divine.

95. I am grateful for her blog and the stories she shares with others.

96. I am grateful for the things I learn from her.

97. I am grateful that she is my friend in spiritual growth ideas.

98. I am grateful Nora accepts me without the need to change me in any way.

99. I am grateful Nora is in my life for the rest of my life.

100. I am grateful for Nora.

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 Changing your Life FAST, excerpted from: The Secret Daily Teachings

In keeping with the author's suggestion, I am going to list 100 things I am grateful for. Please feel free to add your own list in the comment section of this message.  100 things sounds like a lot and it is.  It takes a little work but it is worth it because when you are finished listing hundred things you feel grateful for, you will feel like a million bucks.

1. I am grateful for the yucky feelings associated with feeling ungrateful for they ALERT me to get my mind back into the 'gratitude groove'.

2. I am grateful for the things I don't like because they serve as an ALERT  SIGNAL to focus my attention on the things I do like because when my attention is focused on what I do like, I feel GREAT!

3. I am grateful for the emotional pain I feel in my body because it is a SIGN that I am living in the past rather than the 'here and now' where my happiness lives.


4. I am grateful I am still alive and have another chance to get things right.

5. I am grateful for the negative feelings I feel because they remind me that continuing to feel negative will only make me feel worse. That reminder inspires me to take actions and think thoughts that make me feel better.

6. I am grateful for the letters, donations and comments I receive from people because their 'acts of kindness' encourage me to continue to share my insights and inspirational writings, with all who want them, free of charge.


7. I am grateful when people shares my insights and writings with others.

8. I am grateful that I have the ability to heal people and make their lives easier.

9. I am grateful for my taste buds that allow me to enjoy the foods I eat.

10. I am grateful for chocolate in all shapes and forms.

11. I am grateful for all things that taste sweet and for foods that spice up my life.

12. I am grateful for how kind people treat me. And even though I am not a precious jewel by any stretch of my imagination, I a grateful for the handful of people in my life who treat me like a precious jewel. What a delicious feeling that is.

13. I am grateful for you, YES you, the person reading these words because you as the reader of what I write completes me. Thank you.

14. I am grateful that I take no medications excepts for an ocassional aspirin.

15. I am grateful for the healing power of herbs.

16. I am grateful for my highly developed, reliable and trustworthy intuition.

17. I am grateful for the people who ask me to be their life coach.

18. I am grateful that my body and mind work as gracefully as a 20 year old even though I am 67.

19. I am grateful for all my life experiences, especially the bad and sad ones because they have made me kind, sensitive and wise towards all people who come into my life no matter how different they may be than myself.

20 I am grateful for my struggles around money because my struggles have taught me that making a lot of money requires no struggle at all.


21. I am grateful for my fingers and toes that I often take for granted because without them I could not walk easily or type fastly.


22. I am grateful that God, the source energy of my life, beats my heart and make the air move in and out of my lungs without any effort at all.


23. I am grateful for my massive insecurities for they makes me sensitive to the insecurities of others.

24. I am grateful for the gifts of ' life insights and wisdom' that flow through me that I am able to share with others. I am grateful to be a channel for an intelligence greater than myself and to feel that connection when I am sharing life changing information with others.


25. I am grateful for the generous hearted people in my life who share their good fortune with me.

26. I grateful that I can walk up steep hills without losing my breath. I am also grateful that I can poop effortlessly, can you? :)

27. I am grateful for my wacky sense of humor that makes my friends laugh and smile a lot.

28. I am grateful for Betty White for being my inspiration about how my life can be at her age, 88.

29. I am grateful for sunsets, sunrises and all of nature in between.

30. I am grateful that I am running out of things to be grateful for because it shows me I need to focus more of my attention on being grateful and less attention on whining and belly aching when things don't go my way.

31. I am grateful for music.... I am so grateful for music because I can always find a music selection to lift me up when I feel down.  I am grateful for the music in the movie Mamma Mia.  That sound track touches all of my emotions and softens me when I am feeling hard.

32. I am grateful for the thoughts I have when I think of meeting people who like my writings. The thoughts of meeting, greeting, thanking and hugging them for being my audience makes my life a joy filled with contentment, satisfaction and happiness to overflowing.

33. I am grateful for each subscriber to my Free 60 Second Inspirational Thoughts

34. I am grateful for my dog PJ.  Before PJ I never knew what unconditional love was.   

35. I am grateful for Vona, after too many failed relationships, the universe led me to the perfect relationship for me. It has been seven years and we love each other more now than we did when we first met.  And that's saying something considering we know every quirk about each that droves our former partners crazy but make us love each other even more.  Without Vona in my life I would be dead now rather than grateful. Making Vona happy because I don't have to is a great joy in my life. She never expects a thing from me which frees me up to give her many unexpected good things unexpectedly. She is not the youngest or thinnest woman but in my eyes she is just right.  I love her eyes, the endless windows to her soul.. 

36. I am grateful for all the money I had, for the money I have and for the money I will have.

37. I am grateful that 11 years ago I made the decision to eliminate all debt from my life and today I am very grateful that I live debt free, what a glorious feeling of freedom that is..


38. I am grateful for this 'gratitude exercise' because it is causing me to form  'new pathways in my brain' so my ability to be grateful daily will become easier and easier.


39. I am especially grateful for the GRATITUDE FEELING.  The gratitude feeling feels 'life giving' and expansive.  The feeling make me feel carefree and lighthearted.


40.  I am grateful that I started this gratitude list and will continue to add to it until I reach 100 things I am genuinely and seriously grateful for and then I will start the list all over again...

41.  I am grateful that my body feels as good as it does because even though it's not feeling a great as I would like it to, I know it could feel a whole lot worse and that's why I am grateful for how it feels right now.


42.  I am grateful for the challenge of making a list of 100 things I am grateful for...


43.  I am grateful for the things I am not grateful for because they are showing me places inside myself that I need to love.


44. I am grateful that my dental surgery went well this week even thought the needle stung like a bumble bee.


45. I am grateful when I feel connected with people, feel one with them.


46.  I am grateful for my ability to see and hear. I am grateful for my ability to taste and touch things. And I am grateful for my ability to LICK the fudge off a hot fudge sundae. 


47. I am grateful for my ability to smile. I am grateful for my ability to make people feel better about themselves than they did the moment before.


48. I am grateful for all the good lessons of loving and caring my mom and dad taught me.


49. I am grateful  for my 5 children and 14 grandchildren.

50. I am grateful God invented Sex.


51. I am grateful for the memories I have of all the fun times I have enjoyed and looking to have many more.


52. I am grateful for Google for creating a free blog that allows me to share my thoughts and inspire and encourage others.


53.  I am grateful for all the honest, good and fair-minded people in my life.


54. I am grateful for the teachers in my life who taught me to read and write. 


55. I am grateful for my Dad teaching me how to ride a bike, bowl, hunt and make things with tools.


56. I am grateful for my mother's exercising her iron will, on me, so I would become the best person I could become even if that required her making me eat soap from time to time because of my potty mouth.


57.  I am grateful for my zany and outrageous sense of humor.


58.  I am grateful for candy for it makes me feel sweet when I am sour.

59. I am grateful for greedy people because they remind me of what I don't want to become.


60. I am grateful for all the trips I have taken and the places I have visited. I am grateful for the opportunity I had to live in Australia and Germany for awhile. I am grateful for my cruises to Nova Scotia.


61. I am grateful for the courage I had to bungee jump. That is one memory that thrills me every time I think about it..


62. I am grateful that I grew up in the United States during the 'Happy Days' era and that my best friend during that time is still my best friend today.


63.  I am grateful for all the money making opportunities I have had and for all the money I have made, spent and lost.


64. I am grateful for my health.


65. I am grateful for  incredible variety of plants and flowers God created for me to enjoy.


66. I am grateful that on my first try I have arrived at 66 things I am grateful for....


67. I am grateful that I discovered the practice of gratitude.


68. I am grateful for the incredible warm feeling I get when I stranger smiles and says hello to me.


69. I am grateful for WIFI and my computer


70. I am grateful when people tell me what's right about me rather than what's wrong with me.


71. I am grateful that when religion made me lose my faith in God, the wonder of the beauty of nature (sun, moon, stars, oceans, deserts, milky way) restored that faith to me.

72.  I am grateful for the many mentors in my life from Monty Blum to Alan Sager and many people in between including Leo Miller, George Jaidar, and Barry Kaufman to name a few.


73. I am grateful for my son John who was with me for a short 18 months and my daughter Beth who passed away, unexpectedly, at age 30. She left me four granddaughter and 30 years worth of warm and fun loving memories. I am grateful that thought it will be 11 years in June since she passed over to the other side, I still feel her 'loving presence' with me.


74. I am grateful for my children who are still with me, Dan, Chris and Lauren and the beautiful grandchildren they have given me.


75. I am grateful for the nice neighborhood in which I live and the friendly people who live around me.


76. I am grateful for the people who visit my blog daily and weekly.


77. I am grateful when I hear the difference I have made in my reader's lives.


78. I am grateful to be of service to people.


79. I am grateful for the material things I have. I appreciate them and do not take them for granted. I am grateful for the skilled people who created the material things I own.


80. I am grateful for the people who spread 'fear and doubt' because they are constantly reminder  to me that 'love and light' is more powerful than 'fear and doubt' will ever be.



81.  I am grateful for the food on my table and that I have a safe and clean place to sleep every night.


82.  I am grateful when I can help others out even if it is only a dollar or two.


83. I am grateful for the periods in my life when I suffered emotionally because it made me grow spiritually and made me care about ending the suffering of others and bringing comfort to them when I can.


84. I am grateful that I am alive.


85. I am grateful for hamburgers, hot dogs and football.


86. I am grateful for the Robin who is building an nest in the transom window of my back door.  I take it as a sign of good luck.


87.  I am grateful for all the lucky breaks and unexpected good fortune I have experienced in my life.


88.  I am grateful for the ability to forgive myself and others for the mistakes we made and the bad things we did to each other when we weren't thinking clearly.


89. I am grateful for all the women in my life who helped me grow up and become the man I am today.


90.  I am grateful for my Dad always believing in me especially those times when I didn't believe in myself.


91.  I am grateful my Dad lived to a ripe old age of 94 and was fortunate to die of natural causes instead of some horrible disease.


92.  I am grateful for Aldi's, a new place I shop at that has some of the best food items at the best prices I have ever found. 


93. I am grateful for jalpeno's and hot sauce, boy does that make my body come alive...


94. I am grateful for Margaritas and Tequila.


95.  I am grateful for 'Five Guys,' the best hamburgers I have ever had. 


96.  I am grateful for the highway system that makes traveling to Texas and back a delight..


97.  I am grateful that in spite of the negative news about people as reported by the media, 98% of the people are as good as gold.

98. I am grateful for my ability to sleep peacefully.


99. I am grateful for my ability focus my attention on things that make me feel good and dismiss things from my mind that feel bad.


100. I am grateful that I have completed my first list of 100 things to be grateful for.

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What is the one thing that you are most grateful for?  What is the one thing that creates a deep feeling of gratitude inside you when you think about it?  Sharing your answer by leaving a comment. You can comment anonymously if you wish.

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