10 Steps to Getting What YOU Want:
Creating YOUR Reality

Step 9: Gratitude,
Acceptance and Moving On

Open Your Heart

Gratitude opens the heart and lets even more good things to enter your life.

Being thankful for things big and small opens yourself for more things to enter.

Thank Those Who Have Helped You

Thank yourself, those who have helped you and Spirit/God/Universe. Thank you's can be verbal, written, or even just a silent acknowledgement. However, when possible, telling the person directly, is a wonderful way to give back. People love to hear that what they did was appreciated.

Exercise to Feel Gratitude

Here is an exercise to help you feel gratitude in your life:

• List 10 parts of your body that function reliably
  
• List 10 things that make you happy in your life
  
• List 10 people who have helped you (however small) in the past
  
• List 10 people you have helped (however small)

• Look at these lists and be thankful

Speak Positively With The Gratitue Attitude

Praising and being thankful opens the door to even more. Complaining closes that same door. Hence, speak positively and lovingly.

Appreciate all that went well; accept the lessons learned with grace. Life is wonderful and good.

• Every morning promise yourself to have a gratitude attitude. Everything is a blessing.
  
  
• Thoughout the day remind yurself to be thankful. Reminder notes really help.

• Every night go through the day and remind yourself of everything that there is to be thankful for.
  

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