The Magic - Rhonda Byrne

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Lets build our strengths by being Grateful for all the things that we have in our Life.

The book Magic by Rhonda Byrne has made a profound impact on my life. Today I would like to share the same with you and invite you to practice the simple Magic Practices mentioned in this book over the next 28 days and make your life truly Magical.

Though you can carry out the exercise on your mobile or the laptop I would recommend you to have a notepad or diary handy.

Every day I will share one Magical Practice which you need to practice on that Day.

I have tried to explain each practises in a crisp way, but if you have or can buy online a copy of the book, it would be great.

What Are Your Dreams?

Many of the magical practices are designed to

help you achieve your dreams. Therefore, you

need to get clear about what you really want.

Make a physical or digital list of what you really want in

every area of your life. Think through every

detail of what you want to be, do, or have in

your life – in your relationships, career,

finances, health, and every area that is

important to you. You can be as specific and

detailed as you like, but remember your job is

simply to list what you want, not how you’re

going to get what you want. The “how” will be

done for you when gratitude works its magic.

Day 1 - Count Your Blessings

When you’re grateful for the things you have,

no matter how small they may be, you will see

those things instantly increase. If you’re

grateful for the money you have, however

little, you will see your money magically grow.

If you’re grateful for a relationship, even if it’s

not perfect, you will see it miraculously get

even better. If you’re grateful for the job that

you have, even if it’s not your dream job,

things will begin to change so that you enjoy

your job more, and all kinds of opportunities

for your work will suddenly appear.

You could be grateful for your home, your

family, your friends, your work, and your pets.

You could be thankful for the sun, the water

that you drink, the food that you eat, and the

air that you breathe; without any of them you

wouldn’t be alive. You could be grateful for the

trees, the animals, the oceans, the birds, the

flowers, the plants, blue skies, rain, the stars,

the moon, and our beautiful planet Earth.

Here are some ideas for writing your list:

I am truly blessed to have what? ,

because why? .

I am so happy and grateful for

what? ,

because why? .

I am truly grateful for what? ,

because why? .

With all my heart, thank you for

what? ,

because why?

Magic Practice Number 1

Count Your Blessings

1. First thing in the morning, make a list of

ten blessings in your life you are grateful

for.

2. Write why you’re grateful for each blessing.

3. Go back and read your list, either in your

mind or out loud. When you get to the end

of each one, say the magic words, thank

you, thank you, thank you, and feel the

gratitude for that blessing as much as you

possibly can.

4. Repeat the first three steps of this magical

practice every morning for the next 27

days.

For tomorrow’s Magic practice 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.

Day 2

The Magic Rock

When you have found your Magic Rock, put it

by your bedside, in a place where you will

definitely see it when you go to bed. Clear

some space if necessary so that you can easily

see your Magic Rock when you go to bed. If

you use an alarm clock, put it next to your

alarm clock.

Tonight, just before you get into bed to 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, for the best thing that happened. Return

the Magic Rock to its place by your bed. And

that’s it!

Every night for the next 26 days, follow the

same Magic Rock practice. Before you go to

sleep, think back through the day, and find the

best thing that happened that day. While

holding your Magic Rock in your hand, be as

grateful as you can be for that thing, and say

thank you.

Using a rock seems like such a simple thing to

do, but through this practice you will see

magical things begin to happen in your life.

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.

The Count Your Blessings and Magic Rock

practices will ensure that you begin and end

your days in a state of gratitude.

Day 3

Magical Relationships

Imagine if you were the only person on

Earth; you would have no desire to do

anything. There would be no

pleasure or joy in your life.

It’s your contact and experiences with other

people that give your life joy, meaning, and

purpose. Because of that, your relationships

affect your life more than anything else. To

receive the life of your dreams, it’s vital that

you understand how your relationships affect

your life now, and how they are the most

powerful channels for gratitude to start

magically changing your life.

Science is now confirming the wisdom of the

great sages of the past, with research studies

showing that people who practice gratitude

have closer relationships, are more connected

to family and friends, and have other people

look upon them favorably. But probably the

most astounding statistic that has come out of

research studies is that for every one complaint

about another person, whether in thought or

word, there have to be ten blessings for the

relationship to flourish. Any less than ten

blessings for every one complaint and the

relationship will deteriorate, and, if the

relationship is a marriage, it will most likely

end in divorce.

Gratitude makes relationships flourish. As you

increase your gratitude for any relationship,

you will magically receive an abundance of

happiness and good things in that relationship.

And gratitude for your relationships doesn’t

change only your relationships; it also changes

you.

Once you have selected your three

relationships and photographs, you are ready

to set the magic into motion. Sit down and

think about the things you are the most

grateful for about each person. What are the

things you love the most about this person?

Look at the photograph of the

person as you make your 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, their name , for

what? .

For example, “Thank you, John, for always

making me laugh.” Or, “Thank you, Mom, for

supporting me through college.”

Magic Practice Number 3

Magical Relationships

1. Repeat steps one to three of Magic Practice

Number 1 – Count Your Blessings: Make a

list of ten blessings. Write why you’re

grateful. Reread your list, and at the end of

each blessing say thank you, thank you,

thank you, and feel as grateful for that

blessing as you can.

2. Choose three of your closest relationships

and collect a photograph of each person.

3. With the photo in front of you, write five

things you are most grateful for about each

person, in your journal or on your

computer.

4. Begin each sentence with the magic words,

thank you, include their name, and what

you’re specifically grateful for.

5. Carry the three photographs with you

today, or put them in a place where you

will see them often. Look at the

photographs on at least three occasions,

speak to the person’s face in the

photograph, and thank them by saying the

magic words, thank you, and their name.

Thank you, Hayley.

6. Before you go to sleep, take your Magic

Rock in one hand, and say the magic

Day 4

Magical Health

THE GIFT OF HEALTH IS KEEPING ME

ALIVE.

“The greatest wealth is health.”

Health is the most precious thing in life, and

yet more than anything else, we can take our

health for granted. For many of us, the only

time we think of our health is when we lose it.

Being grateful for your health ensures that you

will continue to receive more health to be

grateful for, and at the same time it eliminates

stress and tension in your body and mind.

Scientific research studies have shown that

stress and tension are at the root of many

diseases. Studies have also revealed that

people who practice gratitude heal faster.

Close your eyes and feel as grateful as you can for

every part of your body and every senses. Remember that when

you think about why you’re grateful, it will help

you feel gratitude more deeply, and the deeper

you feel it, the faster you will feel and see the

amazing results in your body.

If gratitude were used in

conjunction with conventional medical

treatments, we would see a health revolution,

and recovery rates and miracles like we’ve

never seen before.

Magic Practice Number 4

Magical Health

1. Repeat steps one to three of Magic Practice

Number 1 – Count Your Blessings: Make a

list of ten blessings. Write why you’re

grateful. Reread your list, say thank you,

thank you, thank you, and feel gratitude for

each one.

2. On a piece of paper or card write the

words: THE GIFT OF HEALTH IS

KEEPING ME ALIVE.

3. Place the piece of paper with your written

words where you know you will see it often

today.

4. On at least four occasions, read the words

very slowly, and feel as grateful as you can

for the precious gift of health!

5. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 5

Magic Money

If there’s 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.

Feeling grateful for money when you have very

little is challenging for anyone, but when you

understand that nothing will change until

you’re grateful you will be inspired to do it.

Sit down and take a few minutes to think back

through your childhood before you had any or

much money. As you recall each memory

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?

To continue with the practice of Magic Money,

take a dollar bill and write on a sticker that you

place on the bill:

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE MONEY I’VE

BEEN GIVEN THROUGHOUT MY LIFE.

From this day forward, make a promise to

yourself that whenever you receive any 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!

Magic Practice Number 5

Magic Money

1. Repeat steps one to three of Magic Practice

Number 1 – Count Your Blessings: Make a

list of ten blessings. Write why you’re

grateful. Reread your list, say thank you,

thank you, thank you, and feel gratitude for

each one.

2. Sit down and take a few minutes to think

back through your childhood and all the

things you received that were provided at

no charge to you.

3. As you recall each memory where money

was paid for you, say and feel the magic

words, thank you, with all your heart for

each instance.

4. Take a dollar bill or other small bill and

write on a sticker that you place on the bill

in big bold letters:

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE MONEY I’VE

BEEN GIVEN THROUGHOUT MY LIFE.

5. Take your Magic Dollar Bill with you today,

and as many times as you want, take it out and hold the Magic Dollar

Bill in your hands. Read your written words

and be truly grateful for the abundance of

money you’ve been given.

6. After today, put your Magic Dollar Bill

somewhere you will see it every day to

remind you to continue to be grateful for

the abundance of money you have been

given in your life.

7. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

words, thank you, for the best thing that

happened during the day.

Day 6

Works Like Magic

How can it be that a person who is born into

total poverty, starts out with nothing, and has

very little education goes on to become a

president or a celebrity, or builds an empire

and becomes one of the wealthiest people in

the world? And how is it that two people can

start out in the same career, and yet one

person’s career goes from success to even

greater success, while the other person works

himself or herself into the ground, with little

success, no matter how hard they try?

The missing link to success is gratitude, because

according to the law of attraction you have to

be grateful for what you have to attract success

to you. So, without gratitude, it’s impossible to

have permanent success.

To bring success or increase the good things in

your job or work, like opportunities,

promotions, money, brilliant ideas,

inspirations, and appreciation, it is essential to

be grateful for your job or work. The more

gratitude you have, the more you will have to

be grateful for! And you should be getting the

idea by now that to increase anything in your

life, you have to be grateful for what you

already have.

When you are grateful for your job, you will

automatically give more to your work, and

when you give more to your work, you will

increase the money and success that is

returned to you. If you are not grateful for

your job, you will automatically give less.

When you give less you decrease what comes

back to you, and as a result, you will never be

happy in your work, you will never give more

than you have to, and your job or work will

stagnate and eventually deteriorate, which

could mean losing your job. Remember, for

those who do not have gratitude, even what

they have will be taken from them.     

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, or if it’s

not your dream job, the way to receive your

dream job is by first being grateful for the job

you have.

Today, imagine that you have an invisible

manager whose job it is to keep a record of the

thoughts and feelings you have about your job.

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 how good it feels when

you receive your paycheck, and think about the

favorite 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 what? .

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!

Magic Practice Number 6

Works Like Magic

1. Repeat steps one to three of Magic Practice

Number 1 – Count Your Blessings: Make a

list of ten blessings. Write why you’re

grateful. Reread your list, say thank you,

thank you, thank you, and feel gratitude for

each one.

2. While at work today, imagine you have an

invisible manager following you around

taking notes every time you find something

to be grateful for. Your job today is to look

for as many things as you can to be grateful

for.

3. Have your manager make a note each time

you find something you’re grateful for, by

saying: I’m so grateful for what? ,

and feel as grateful as you can.

4. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 7

The Magical Way Out

of Negativity

“A thankful person is thankful under all

circumstances.”

Whether it’s a relationship in turmoil,

financial pressure, a lack of health, or problems

in a job, negative situations arise because of a

lack of gratitude over a long period of time. If

we are not grateful for each thing in our lives,

we are unintentionally taking those things for

granted. Taking things for granted is a major

cause of negativity, because when we take

things for granted we are not giving thanks in

return, and we stop the magic happening in

our life.

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 away

with every complaint.

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.

As an example, your problem might be that

you’re 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 am 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.

Let’s take another example; a son whose

relationship with his father is troubled. The son

feels that no matter what he does it never

seems to be good enough for his father.

1. I am grateful that most of the relationships

in my life are really good.

2. I’m grateful to my father for working hard

so that I could have the education that he

didn’t get to have.

3. I’m grateful to my father for supporting our

family through my childhood, because I

didn’t have a clue then how much hard

work and money it took to keep our family

going.

In making your written list, make sure you list

each of the ten things you’re grateful for in the

following way:

I am so grateful for .

Or, I am truly grateful for .

And finish the sentence with what you’re

grateful for.

And just for today, see if you can get through

one day without saying anything negative. It

may be a challenge, but see if you can make it

through one day. There is an important reason

to do this, because most of us have no idea

how much we speak negatively, but you’ll have

an idea after watching your words for a day.

Remember that negativity and complaint bring

more of those things, and if you’re aware of

what you’re saying you can stop and decide if

you want the consequences of what you’re

about to say. Here is a magic lifeline you can

use if you notice yourself thinking or saying

something negative. Stop immediately, and

say:

But I have to say that I am really grateful for

.

Finish the rest of the sentence with something

– anything – that you’re grateful for. Take this

magic lifeline with you, and grab a hold of it

whenever you need it.

And if any little problem or situation appears in

the future, remember to put out the embers

with gratitude before it grows into a fire. At the

same time you will ignite the magic in your life.

Magic Practice Number 7

The Magical Way Out of Negativity

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Choose one problem or negative situation

in your life that you most want to resolve.

3. List ten things that you are grateful for

about the negative situation.

4. At the end of your list, write: Thank you,

thank you, thank you, for the perfect

resolution.

5. Just for today, see if you can get through

one day without saying anything negative.

If you notice yourself thinking or saying

something negative, use the magic lifeline.

Stop immediately and say: But I have to say

that I am really grateful for .

6. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 8

The Magic Ingredient

Giving thanks for food before you eat is a

tradition that has been followed for thousands

of years, dating back to the ancient Egyptians.

With the fast pace of life in the twenty-first

century, taking the time to give thanks for a

meal has more often than not been left behind.

But using the simple act of eating and drinking

as an opportunity to be grateful will increase

the magic in your life exponentially!

To feel even more gratitude for food, take a

moment and think about all the people who

contributed to you having food to eat. For you

to eat fresh fruit and vegetables, the growers

had to plant and nurture the fruit and

vegetables with continuous watering,

protecting them over many months until they

were ready for harvesting.

Food is a gift! It’s a gift of nature, because

there would be nothing for any of us to eat if

nature didn’t supply us with the soil, nutrients,

and water to grow food. Without water, there

would be no food, vegetation, animals, or

human life.

“If there is magic on this planet it is

contained in water.”

The incredible thing is that when you are

grateful for food and water, it doesn’t just

affect your life; your gratitude also impacts the

world’s supply. If enough people felt gratitude

for food and water, it would actually help the

people who are starving and in great need. By

the law of the attraction, and Newton’s law of

action and reaction, the action of mass

gratitude must produce an equal mass

reaction, which would change the

circumstances of scarcity of food and water for

everyone on the planet.

Before you eat or drink anything today,

whether you’re about to eat a meal, a piece of

fruit, or a snack, or have a drink of anything,

including water, 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!

And if you can, just take one mouthful really

savoring it; it will not only increase your

enjoyment, it will help you to feel far more

gratitude.

If at any time during the day you forget to say

the magic words, thank you, before you eat or

drink anything, as soon as you remember,

close your eyes, go back in your mind to the

time when you forgot, visualize yourself in

your mind for a second or two before you ate

or drank, and say the magic words.

Magic Practice Number 8

The Magic Ingredient

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. 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.

3. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 9

The Money Magnet

Today’s magical practice turns one of the

biggest reasons people complain about money

into an act of gratitude, and so it has double

the power to change the circumstances of your

money; you’ll be replacing a complaint, which

makes you poorer, with gratitude, which

magically brings you riches.

Most people wouldn’t think they complain

about money, but if there is a lack of money in

their life they are complaining without realizing

it. Complaining happens through people’s

thoughts as well as their words, and most

people aren’t aware of the many thoughts in

their head.

If you don’t have enough money, the last thing

you would normally do is feel grateful for your

bills, but in fact that’s exactly what you have to

do to receive more money in your life. To have

a rich life, you must be grateful for everything

to do with money, and begrudging your bills is

not being grateful. You must do the exact

opposite, which is to be grateful for the goods

or services you’ve received from those who

billed you. It is such a simple thing to do, but

it will have a monumental effect on the money

in your life. You will literally become a money

magnet!

To be grateful for a bill, think about how much

you’ve benefited from the service or goods on

the bill. If it’s payment for rent or a mortgage,

be grateful that you have a home, and you’re

living in it. What if the only way you could live

in a home was by saving up all the money and

paying cash for it? What if there was no such

thing as lending institutions or places to rent?

Most of us would be living on the streets, so be

grateful to the lending institutions or your

landlord, because they have made it possible

for you to live in a home or apartment.

Take any currently unpaid bills you have, and use

gratitude’s magical power by writing across

them, “Thank you for the money,” and 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.         

Feeling gratitude for the money you’ve paid out

guarantees you will receive more. Gratitude is

like a magnetic golden thread attached to your

money, so when you pay money out, the

money always returns to you, sometimes

equally, sometimes tenfold, sometimes a

hundredfold. The abundance you receive back

depends not on how much money you give,

but on how much gratitude you give.

Magic Practice Number 9

The Money Magnet

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. 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.

3. 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!

4. Before you go to sleep, take your Magic

Rock in one hand, and say the magic

words, thank you, for the best thing that

happened during the day.

Day 10

Magic Dust Everyone

“No duty is more urgent than that of

returning thanks.”

When you’re at a café or restaurant, sprinkle

magic dust by saying thank you to each person

as they serve you. Whether cleaning the table,

giving you the menu, receiving your order,

filling your glass with water, serving the meal

you ordered, clearing the table, giving you the

bill, or giving your change, remember to say

thank you every single time. If you’re in a store

or supermarket checkout, sprinkle magic dust

and say thank you to the person who serves

you or packs your groceries.

At times you may encounter a person in

service who behaves rudely toward you or

doesn’t give you the attention you think you

deserve. It maybe more challenging to be

grateful in these situations, but your gratitude

cannot be dependent on another person’s

behavior. Choose to be grateful no matter

what! Choose magic in your life no matter

what! It might help you to remember that you

don’t know what difficulty someone might be

going through at the time you connect with

him or her.

If you thank someone on the phone for his or

her help, don’t throw away your thank you;

instead, give the reason why you’re grateful.

For example, “Thank you for your help.”

“Thank you for going out of your way for me.”

“Thank you for giving me so much of your

time.” “Thank you for resolving the situation

for me, I’m very grateful to you.” You will be

amazed at the response from the other person

when you do this one simple thing, because

they will feel your sincerity.

I don’t use magic dust only for the people who

serve; I use gratitude’s magic dust in all kinds

of situations. When I say goodbye to my

daughter before she drives to her home, I feel

gratitude for her having arrived home safely,

and I wave my fingers in the air and imagine

sprinkling magic dust over her and her car.

Sometimes I sprinkle magic dust on my

computer before I begin a new project, or

sprinkle magic dust ahead of me before I walk

into a store to look for something in particular

that I need.

Today, take gratitude’s magic dust with you for

the people who work in service, and look for

every opportunity you can to sprinkle magic

dust on everyone by saying thank you. Thank

at least ten people who perform different

services you benefit from today. It doesn’t

matter if you don’t get the opportunity to do it

in person; you can mentally acknowledge the

people whose service you benefit from. The

magic dust will still reach them. As an

example, mentally say to yourself:

I’m really grateful to the cleaners who work

through the early hours of the morning,

making sure that the streets are cleaned of

trash every day. I’ve never really thought about

how grateful I am for that service, which is

done like clockwork every day. Thank you.

Magic Practice Number 10

Magic Dust Everyone

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. 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!

3. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

4. When you wake up to the new day tomorrow, before

you do a single thing, say the magic words,

thank you.

 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. When you wake up 

to the new day, before you do a single thing, say

 the magic words,

thank you.

Day 11

A Magic Morning

“When you arise in the morning think of

what a privilege it is to be alive, to think,

to enjoy, to love.”

Each morning is full of opportunities to give

thanks, and it doesn’t slow you down or take

any extra time, because you can do it naturally

as you go about everything you do. There is an

added bonus to filling your morning with

gratitude because your daily routines are the

times when you can harm yourself the most by

thinking negative thoughts without realizing

you’re doing it. There’s no room for harmful

negative thoughts when your mind is focused

on looking for things to be grateful for. After

this practice you will go into your day feeling

much happier and more confident that the day

ahead will be great – and that’s when you will

see the magic happen before your very eyes!

Every day without exception, I say “thank” as I

put one foot on the floor, and “you” as my

other foot touches the floor, so that as both

feet touch the floor for the first time each day,

I’ve said thank you.

As I walk toward my

bathroom I say the magic words, thank you, in

my mind with each step. Then I continue

saying thank you in my mind as I touch and

use each thing in my bathroom. By the time I

am dressed and ready for the day, I feel so

happy I could jump for joy. And when I feel

that happy, I know my gratitude has worked,

and I am guaranteed to have a magical day. As

I go through my day, I really feel as though I

have a magic power with me, because one

good thing after another happens. And as each

good thing happens, I’m even more grateful,

which speeds up the magic with even more

good things happening. You know those days

when everything just seems to go right for

you? Well, that’s what it’s like after doing Magic

Morning, but multiplied!

Magic Practice Number 11

A Magic Morning

1. When you wake up to the new day, before

you do a single thing, say the magic words,

thank you.

2. 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.

3. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

4. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 12

Magical People Who

Made a Difference

“At times our own light goes out and is

rekindled by a spark from another person.

Each one of us has cause to think with

deep gratitude of those who have lighted

the flame within us.”

The person may have been a teacher or coach,

an uncle, aunt, sibling, grandparent, or any

family member. They may have been a doctor,

nurse, or best friend. They may have been the

person who introduced you to your current

partner or to a particular interest that became

one of your greatest passions. Maybe they

were someone you didn’t even know, and they

appeared in your life very briefly, performing a

random act of kindness that touched you to the

core.

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, sit 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.

Make sure you do this magical practice with all

three people in the one session, because it will

take your feeling of gratitude to a far deeper

level. If you split up this magical practice

throughout the day, you will not feel the same

depth of gratitude, nor receive the magical

results.

Here’s an example of what you might say:

Sarah, I want to thank you for the time that

you encouraged me to follow my heart. I was

lost and confused that day, and your words

touched me, and lifted me out of despair.

Because of what you said, I found the courage

to follow my dream, and I moved to France to

work as an apprentice chef. I am living my

dream, and I couldn’t be happier. All because

of what you said to me that day. Thank you,

Sarah!

It’s very important that you say the reasons

why you’re grateful. And you can’t say too

much. Instead, the more you say, and the

more you feel, the more amazing the results.

You will see the magic explode into your life

from doing this practice; it numbers among the

most powerful acts of gratitude you can ever

perform.

If you’re not in a position to talk out loud, then

you can write down your words to each

person, and address them as though you’re

writing a letter.

Magic Practice Number 12

Magical People Who Made a

Difference

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Find a quiet place alone sometime during

today, and make a list of three people who

made a difference in your life.

3. Work through the list one person at a time,

and while talking out loud tell each person

the reason why you’re grateful for them,

and exactly how they affected the course of

your life.

4. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 13

Make All Your Wishes

Come True

“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993)

W RIT ER

If you have been following the magical

practices day by day, you have now built an

amazing foundation by practicing gratitude for

everything you have received and continue to

receive in your life. But today is an exciting

day, because you’re going to begin to use

gratitude’s magical power for your dreams and

desires!

The law of attraction says that like attracts like,

which means you must form in your mind a

likeness, or an image, of what you want. Then,

to attract your desire to you, you have to feel

as though it’s yours, so that how you feel is

also like how you would feel when you had

what you wanted. The easiest way to do that is

to be grateful for what you want – before

you’ve received it.

What Do You Most Want

Right Now?

At the beginning of this book I asked you to

get really clear about what you want in every

area of your life. (If you didn’t do that earlier,

now is the time to do it.) Go to the lists you

created now, and choose your top ten desires

for this magical practice. You can select ten

desires from different areas of your life, such

as money, health, home, and relationships, or

you might want to choose ten desires in one

area you really want to change, such as work

or success. Be very clear and specific about

what you most want, so that you can see the

changes magically happen from this practice.

Imagine you are putting in a magic order with

the Universe for your top ten desires, because

in truth, by using the law of attraction, that’s

exactly what you are doing.

Sit down at a computer or with a pen and

journal, and create a separate list of your top

ten desires in the following way, as though

you’ve received them:

Thank you, thank you, thank you for

, and fill in the blank with your desire

as though you’ve received it. For example:

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the high

marks in my exam results, which got me into

the exact college I wanted!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the great

news that we are having a baby!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for our

dream home, which has everything we wanted

it to have down to the last detail!

To saturate each of your desires with

gratitude’s magical power, begin with the first

desire on your list and using your imagination

mentally answer the following questions, as

though you’ve received your desire:

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, reread each desire, and really

emphasize the magic words, thank you, so that

you feel them as much as you can.

If you want to do something that’s really

powerful and a lot of fun, you can also create a

Magic Board, where you attach pictures of your

desires. Cut out the pictures and attach them to

a board that’s in a place where you will see it

often. Place the magic words THANK YOU,

THANK YOU, THANK YOU in big bold letters

on your Magic Board. Or you can use your

refrigerator as your Magic Board. If you have a

family, you can create a Magic Board as a

family project, because children love it!

Imagine that your Magic Board is truly magical,

and that whatever you place a picture of on

your board is instantly being moved toward

you. Your continued gratitude for it will

magnetize it all the way into your life.

Magic Practice Number 13

Make All Your Wishes Come True

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Sit down at a computer or with a 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 .

3. 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.

4. Finally, reread the sentence listing your

desire, and really emphasize the magic

words, thank you, so that you feel them as

much as you can.

5. If you like, create a Magic Board. Cut out

pictures and attach them to your Magic

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.

6. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 14

Have a Magical Day

To see and experience the most magical day

of your life, you can be grateful for your whole

day before you live it! To Have A Magical Day,

you simply think through your plans for the

day and say the magic words, thank you, for

each one going well, before you’ve lived it. It’s

the easiest the thing to do, it only takes a few

minutes, but the difference it can make in your

day is incredible.

Even waking up in a bad mood doesn’t happen

by accident, because it means that you went to

sleep thinking negatively about something,

perhaps without realizing it. It’s the very

reason why you are doing the Magic Rock

practice last thing at night, to ensure that you

go to sleep thinking good thoughts. The Magic

Rock practice at night combined with Count

Your Blessings every morning sets your good

mood at night and in the morning, and they

guarantee that you are feeling good before you

go off into your day.

Whatever your plans are for the day today, 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 writes 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.

When you use gratitude ahead of time to Have

A Magical Day it wipes out unexpected

problems or difficulties before they happen.

After you’ve finished using gratitude’s magical

power for every task and event in your day,

end the practice by saying, “And thank you for

the great news coming to me today!” Without

fail, every single morning when I finish using

gratitude to Have A Magical Day, I give thanks

for the great news coming to me that day. As a

result, I’ve never received so much great news

in my entire life. One week after another, one

day after another, great news pours in! Each

time I receive another piece of great news I am

especially grateful and excited because I know

I used gratitude’s magical power to bring it      

Magic Practice Number 14

Have a Magical Day

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. 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.

3. After you’ve finished being grateful for all

the plans in your day going brilliantly well,

end this magical practice by saying: And

thank you for the great news coming to me

today!

4. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 15

Magically Heal Your

Relationships

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot

coal with the intent of throwing it at

someone else; you are the one who gets

burned.”

Gautama Buddha

Bad feelings about another person burn your

life, but gratitude will eliminate them!

If you have a difficult or broken relationship,

are suffering from a broken heart, or hold any

resentment or blame toward another person

for anything, you can change it through

gratitude. Gratitude will magically improve any

difficult relationship, whether that person is a

husband or wife, brother or sister, son or

daughter, partner, boss, business client, work

colleague, mother- or father-in-law, parent,

friend, or neighbor.

If you’re suffering from a broken heart or

grief due to a relationship having ended, you

can use gratitude’s magical power to transform

your pain. Gratitude magically transforms

emotional pain into healing and happiness

faster than anything else.

For today’s magical practice you are going to

look for a hot coal that is burning your life, and

literally turn it into gold through gratitude!

Choose one difficult, problematic, or broken

relationship that you want to improve. It

doesn’t matter whether the person is currently

in your life, or if it’s a past relationship and the

person is no longer in your life.

Sit down and make a written list of ten things

you’re grateful for about the person you’ve

chosen. Think back through the history of the

relationship, and list the great things about the

person or the great things you received from

the relationship. The easiest way to do this is

to think back to the way things were before the

relationship deteriorated or ended. If the

relationship was never good, then think hard

about any good qualities in the person because

they are there.

This magical practice is not about who is right

or wrong. No matter what you feel someone

has done to you, no matter what someone said

or didn’t do, you can magically heal the

relationship, and you don’t need the other

person in order to heal it.

As you dig and discover a nugget of

gold, write it down, address the person by

name, and express your sentence in gratitude:

Name , I’m grateful for

what? .

1. Paul, I’m grateful for our time together.

While our marriage did end, I learned a lot,

I am so much wiser today, and I use what I

learned from our marriage in many of my

relationships today.

2. Paul, I’m grateful for everything you did to

try and make our marriage work, because

ten years of marriage means you did try.

3. Paul, I am grateful to you for our children.

The joy I receive from them every day

could not be without you.

Magic Practice Number 15

Magically Heal Your Relationships

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Choose one difficult, problematic, or

broken relationship that you want to

improve.

3. 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:

Name , I’m grateful for

what? .

4. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

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.

Gratitude’s magical power increases the natural

flow of health to the mind and body, and can

assist the body in healing more quickly, as

countless studies have shown. The magical

power of gratitude also works hand in hand

with good bodily care, nutrition, and any

medical assistance you might have chosen to

follow.

When there is some kind of sickness or

condition in your body, it is understandable

that you may have negative feelings about it,

like worry, frustration, or fear. But having

negative feelings about sickness does not

restore health. In fact, it has the opposite effect

– it reduces health even more. To increase

your health, you need to replace the negative

feelings with good feelings, and gratitude is the

easiest way to do it.

Many people also have critical thoughts and

feelings of dissatisfaction about their physical

appearance. Unfortunately those thoughts and

feelings also reduce the magical flow of health.

When there’s something you don’t like about

your body, you are not being grateful for your

body. Think about it. By the law of attraction,

complaints about your body bring more

problems to complain about, and so

complaining about your body or appearance

puts your very health at risk.

Step 1: Health You’ve

Received (past)

Think about the great health you have received

throughout your childhood, adolescence, and

adult life.

Step 2: Health You’re

Continuing to Receive

(present)

Think about the health you are continuing to

receive today, and feel grateful for every

organ, system, and physical sense that is

currently working well in your body.

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.

Spend one minute in visualizing a scene of

yourself with the ideal state of your body that

you want. And as you see your body in your

mind the way you want it to be, be grateful for

it as though you have received it.

So, if you want to magically restore health to

your kidneys, be grateful for strong and

healthy kidneys that filter and sift out all the

waste products from your body. If you want to

magically restore health to your blood, be

grateful for pure and healthy blood that flows

oxygen and nutrients to all parts of your body.

If you want to magically restore health to your

heart, give thanks for a strong and healthy

heart that maintains the well-being of every

organ in your body.

Magic Practice Number 16

Magic and Miracles in Health

 1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Recollect three separate times throughout

your life when you felt on top of the world,

and give sincere thanks for those times.

3. Think about five functions of your body

that are well, and one by one give thanks

for each one.

4. Choose one thing about your body or

health you want to improve, and spend one

minute visualizing yourself with the ideal

state of your body or health. Then give

thanks for this ideal state.

5. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 17

The Magic Check

“In the magical universe there are no

coincidences and there are no accidents.

Nothing happens unless someone wills it

to happen.”

When you direct gratitude’s magical power

toward any negative condition, a new condition

is created, eliminating the old condition. That

means that when you get yourself to the place

where you feel grateful for money more than

you feel a lack of money, a new condition is

created, eliminating the lack of money and

magically replacing it with more money.

The law of attraction says that

like attracts like, so if you feel disappointed

that you don’t have enough money, you will

receive more disappointing circumstances of

not having enough money. If you are worried

about money you will receive more worrying

situations about money. If you feel fearful

about the state of your money, then you must

receive more situations that will continue to

make you fearful about money.

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!

Any circumstance that results in you having

more money or receiving something that cost

money is a result of your gratitude. You’ll feel

great joy in knowing that you did it, and when

you combine your joy with your gratitude, you

have a real magnetic force that will keep

attracting more and more abundance.

Once you have filled in the details of the Magic

Check shown at the end of this page

, hold the check in your hands and think

about the specific thing you want the money

for. Get a picture in your mind and visualize

yourself actually using the money to get the

very thing that you want, and put as much

excitement and gratitude into it as you can.

Magic Practice Number 17

The Magic Check

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Fill in your Magic Check with the amount of

money you want to receive, along with your

name and today’s date.

3. Hold your Magic Check in your hands, and

imagine purchasing the specific thing you

want the money for. Feel as happy and

grateful as you can that you have received

it.

4. Take the Magic Check with you today, or

put it in a place where you will see it often.

On at least two more occasions, take the

check in your hands, picture yourself using

the money for what you want, and feel as

grateful as though you were really doing it.

5. At the end of today, keep your Magic Check

in a prominent place where you will see it

daily. When you have received the money

on your check, or if you receive the item

you wanted to spend the money on, replace

the check with a new amount for something

else you want, and repeat steps 2–4.

6. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Download a copy of The Magic check from

www.thesecret.tv/magiccheck, then fill in the

date, your name, and the amount you wish to

receive in the currency of your choice.

Day 18

The Magical To-Do List

Every day there are little life problems that

come up and that need solving. Sometimes we

can feel overwhelmed if we don’t know how to

solve a situation. Maybe your problem is that

you don’t have enough time for all the things

you need to do, and you’re at a loss because

there are only twenty-four hours in the day.

When you combine gratitude’s magical power

with the law of attraction, people,

circumstances, and events must be rearranged

to do what you want done for you! You will not

know how it will happen, or how it will be

done for you, and that is not your job. Your

job is simply to be as grateful as you can be

for what you want done right now, as though it

were done. And then let the magic happen!

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, from

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 list, 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.

Magic Practice Number 18

The Magical To-Do List

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Create a written list of the most important

things or problems you need done or

solved. Title your list The Magical To-Do

List.

3. Choose three of the most important things

from your list, and one at a time, imagine

that each thing has been done for you.

4. Spend at least one minute on each thing,

believing it is done, and feeling enormous

gratitude in return.

5. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 19

Magic Footsteps

“A hundred times every day I remind

myself that my inner and outer life depend

on the labors of other men, living and

dead, and that I must exert myself in

order to give in the same measure as I

have received and am still receiving.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

NOBEL PRIZE–W INNING PHY SICIST

With those words, Einstein gave us a gift

equal to his scientific discoveries. He gave us

one of the magical secrets to his success.

Gratitude – every day!

Einstein is the inspiration behind today’s

magical practice, and you are going to follow

in his footsteps to bring success to your life.

Today, like Einstein, you will say thank you

one hundred times, and you’re going to do it

by taking one hundred Magic Footsteps. While

it might seem unbelievable to you that taking

footsteps can make a difference to your life,

you will discover that it is one of the most

powerful things you can do.

To take Magic Footsteps, you take one step and

in your mind say the magic words, thank you,

as your foot touches the ground, and then

again say thank you as your other foot touches

the ground. One foot, thank you, next foot,

thank you, and continue saying the magic

words with every footstep.

The best thing about Magic Footsteps is that

you can take any number of Magic Footsteps

anywhere and at any time; through your house

from one room to another, walking to get your

lunch or coffee, taking the trash out, walking to

a business meeting, on your way to catch a

cab, train, or bus.

You can take Magic Footsteps on your way to anything that is

important to you, like exams, a date, a job

interview, an audition, to meet a client, to the

bank, ATM, dentist, doctor, hairdresser, to see

your team play in a sports game, down

corridors, through airport terminals, in parks,

or from one block to another.

I take Magic Footsteps around my home, from

my bed to my bathroom, kitchen to my

bedroom, and outside to my car and the

mailbox.

When you have completed today’s magical

practice you will have said the magic words,

thank you, one hundred times! How many days

of your life have you said thank you one

hundred times?

And Einstein did it every day!

Magic Practice Number 19

Magic Footsteps

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Take one hundred Magic Footsteps (for

about ninety seconds) in gratitude any time

during the day.

3. With each footstep, say and feel the magic

words, thank you.

4. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 20

Heart Magic

You might have figured out by now that with

any magical practice of gratitude the aim is

always to feel it as much as you can. This is

because when you increase the feeling of

gratitude on the inside, the things you have to

be grateful for in the outside world increase

too.

Eventually, after practicing gratitude for a long

period of time, you will automatically feel it

deeply in your heart. However, today’s magical

practice will collapse the time it would normally

take for you to reach that level.

The Heart Magic practice is designed to

powerfully increase the depths that you feel

gratitude, by focusing your mind on the area of

your heart as you say and feel the magic

words, thank you. Scientific research has

shown that by focusing on your heart as you

feel gratitude, the rhythm of your heart

immediately becomes much more even and

harmonious, resulting in major improvements

to your immune system and health.

To practice Heart Magic, focus your mind and

your attention on the area around your heart.

It doesn’t matter if you focus on the inside or

the outside of your body. Close your eyes,

because it will make it easier, and while

keeping your mind focused on your heart,

mentally say the magic words, thank you. Once

you’ve practiced it a few times, you won’t need

to close your eyes anymore, but as a general

rule, you will feel more gratitude when you

close your eyes.

There are several things you can do to help

you get Heart Magic down really quickly. You

can put your right hand on the area around

your heart to keep your mind focused there

while you say the magic words, thank you.

As part of today’s magical practice, take your

Top Ten Desire List and practice Heart Magic

on each desire. Read each desire in your mind

or out loud, and when you get to the end of

reading each one, close your eyes, focus your

mind on the area around your heart, keep your

mind on your heart area, and say the magic

words again, thank you, slowly.

Once you have practiced Heart Magic a few

times you will feel a huge increase in the depth

of your feeling, and with gratitude it’s all about

the depth of the feeling, because the deeper

the feeling the greater the abundance you will

receive. The initial physical signs that you’ve

increased the depth of your feeling could be

that you get a tingling feeling around your

heart, or feel a wave of joy rush through your

body. Your eyes may fill with tears, or you

may get goose bumps. But without exception,

you will begin to feel a depth of peace and

happiness you’ve never felt before!

Magic Practice Number 20

Heart Magic

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Focus your mind and your attention on the

area around your heart.

3. Close your eyes, and while keeping your

mind focused on your heart, mentally say

the magic words, thank you.

4. Take your Top Ten Desire List and practice

Heart Magic by reading each desire, then

closing your eyes, focusing your mind on

the area around your heart, and slowly

saying thank you, again.

5. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 21

Magnificent Outcomes

You will have had times when you thought to

yourself, “I hope this goes well,” or, “I hope

this turns out okay,” or, “I’m going to need a

lot of luck.” All these thoughts are hoping for a

good outcome to a situation. But life doesn’t

happen by chance or because of a stroke of

luck. The laws of the Universe operate

mathematically to the finest possible degree;

that is something you can count on!

pilot doesn’t hope that the laws of physics

will keep working during his flight, because he

knows the laws of physics will never fail. You

don’t go into your day and hope that the law of

gravity will keep you on the ground so you

don’t float off into space. You know there’s no

chance at play, and gravity’s law will never fail.

If you want Magnificent Outcomes to

everything you do, then you have to use the

law that governs outcomes – the law of

attraction. That means you have to use your

thoughts and feelings to attract Magnificent

Outcomes to you, and being grateful for

Magnificent Outcomes is one of the simplest

ways to do it.

The Magnificent Outcomes practice is being

grateful before you do something you want to

go well. You could be grateful for the

magnificent outcome to the work meeting, job

interview, or exam, the magnificent outcome to

the sports game, phone call, catch-up with a

friend, or seeing your mother-in-law.

Another time to use gratitude for Magnificent

Outcomes is when something unexpected

happens during your day. When something

unexpected happens, very often we can jump

to conclusions and immediately think there’s

something wrong. For example, you arrive at

work and are told that the boss wants to see

you right away. The problem with jumping to

conclusions and thinking there’s something

wrong is that the law of attraction says that

what you think and feel you will attract to you.

So instead of jumping to conclusions and

thinking you might be in trouble, take the

opportunity to make the magic happen by

being grateful for a magnificent outcome.

If you miss your bus or train on your way to

work, or miss a flight, or are unexpectedly

delayed, instead of thinking, “This is bad,” be

grateful for the magnificent outcome so that

you put the magic into motion to receive a

magnificent outcome.

The more you practice Magnificent Outcomes,

and make it a daily habit, the more Magnificent

Outcomes you will attract into your life. Less

and less you will find yourself in situations that

you don’t want to be in. You won’t find

yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Make a written list of the three situations

you’ve chosen for Magnificent Outcomes. Use

gratitude’s magical power, and as you write

each one imagine that you’re writing about

each one after it has happened:

Thank you for the magnificent outcome to

!

For the second step of this magical practice,

you are going to choose three unexpected

things that arise today and use the magical

power of gratitude for their Magnificent

Outcomes as well. You could do this practice

before you take three phone calls, or before

you open three emails or three letters in the

mail, before you do an unexpected errand, or

anything else unexpected that comes up in the

day. This part of the practice is not so much

about what unexpected events you choose as it

is about you practicing gratitude for

Magnificent Outcomes on the little unexpected

things. Each time an unexpected event arises,

close your eyes briefly if you can, and mentally

say and feel the magic words:

Thank you for the magnificent outcome to

!

Magic Practice Number 21

Magnificent Outcomes

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. At the beginning of the day, choose three

things or situations that are important to

you where you want Magnificent Outcomes.

3. List your three things, and write each one

as though you are writing after it has

happened: Thank you for the magnificent

outcome to !

4. As you go through your day, choose three

unexpected events that come up in your

day where you can be grateful for a

magnificent outcome. Each time, close your

eyes and mentally say and feel: Thank you

for the magnificent outcome to !

5. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 22

Before Your Very Eyes

“This world, after all our science and

sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful,

inscrutable, magical, and more to

whosoever will think of it.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

W RIT ER AND HIST ORIAN

Seven years ago, when I first discovered The

Secret and the magical power of gratitude, I

made a list of all of my desires. It was a long

list! At that time, there seemed to be no

possible way my desires could come true.

Nevertheless, I took my top ten desires and I

carried them with me on a piece of paper every

day. Whenever I had an opportunity, I would

take out my list and read through it, giving as

much gratitude for each desire as I could, as

though I had received it. With my number one

desire, the desire I wanted more than anything

else, I kept it constantly in my mind, and I

would say the magic words, thank you, for it

multiple times in a day, and feel as if it had

come true. One by one every desire on my list

magically appeared before my very eyes. As I

received my desires I would cross them off my

list, and when I had new desires I would add

them to my list.

So now it’s your turn to use gratitude’s magical

power to make your desires appear before

your very eyes. At the start of the day, take

your Top Ten Desire List that you created.

Read through each sentence and desire on

your list, and for one minute imagine or

visualize that you have received your desire.

Feel as much gratitude as you can, as if you

have it now.

Carry your desire list with you today in your

pocket. On at least two occasions in the day,

take out your list, read through it, and feel as

much gratitude for each one as you can, as

though you’ve received it.

If you want your desires to come more quickly,

I would highly recommend that you carry your

desire list with you in your wallet or purse

from this day forward, and whenever you have

time, open it up, read through it, and feel as

much gratitude as you can for each one. When

your desires appear before your very eyes,

cross them off your list, and add more. And if

you’re like me, each time you cross a desire off

your list you will be in tears of joy, because

what seemed impossible was made possible

through the magical power of gratitude.

Magic Practice Number 22

Before Your Very Eyes

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. At the start of the day, take your Top Ten

Desire List that you created.

3. Read through each sentence and desire on

your list, and and for one minute imagine

or visualize that you have received your

desire. Feel as much gratitude as you can.

4. Carry your desire list with you today in your

pocket. On at least two occasions in the

day, take out your list, read through it, and

feel as much gratitude as you can.

5. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 23

The Magical Air that

You Breathe

If someone had told me a few years back to

be grateful for the air that I breathe, I would

have thought the person was crazy. It wouldn’t

have made a bit of sense to me; why on earth

would anyone be grateful for the air they

breathe?

But as my life changed from using gratitude,

the things that I took for granted or didn’t give

a second thought about became an absolute

miracle to me. I went from sweating the small

stuff in my little world and day-to-day life, to

opening my eyes and thinking about the bigger

picture and wonder of the Universe.

As the great scientist Newton said, “When I

look at the solar system, I see the Earth at the

right distance from the sun to receive the

proper amounts of heat and light. This did not

happen by chance.”

Those words made me think more and more

about the bigger picture. It’s not an accident

that there’s a protective atmosphere

surrounding us, and that beyond it there’s no

air or oxygen. It’s not an accident that the trees

give off oxygen so that our atmosphere is

continually replenished. It's not an accident

that our solar system is perfectly placed, and

that if it were anywhere else in the galaxy we

would most likely be devastated by cosmic

radiation. There are thousands of parameters

and ratios that support life on Earth; all of

them are on a knife-edge, and their fine-tuning

is so critical that a fraction of a difference in

any of these parameters and ratios would make

life unlivable on planet Earth. It is difficult to

believe any of these things could have

happened by accident. It would seem that they

are perfectly designed, perfectly placed,

perfectly balanced, for us!

In ancient teachings it is said that when a

person reaches the point of being deeply

grateful for the air that they breathe, their

gratitude will have reached a new level of

power, and they will have become the true

alchemist, who can effortlessly turn every part

of their life into gold!

Magic Practice Number 23

The Magical Air That You Breathe

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Five times today, stop and think about the

glorious air that you breathe. Take five

deliberate breaths, and feel the feeling of

the air moving inside your body, and feel

the joy of breathing it out.

3. After you have taken the five breaths, say

the magic words: Thank you for the

magical air that I breathe. Be as grateful as

you can for the precious, life-giving air that

you breathe.

4. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 24

The Magic Wand

When you fervently want to help another

person you have immense power, but when

you direct that power with gratitude, you really

do have a Magic Wand that can help the people

you care about.

Energy flows where your attention goes, and

so when you direct the energy of gratitude

toward another person’s needs, that’s where

the energy goes.

Gratitude is an invisible but real force

of energy, and coupled with the energy of your

desire it is just like having a Magic Wand.

To wave your Magic Wand for another’s health,

imagine that the person’s health has been fully

restored, and say the magic words, thank you,

in heartfelt celebration of receiving the news

that he or she is full of health again. You could

imagine the person calling you to give you the

news, or imagine them telling you in person,

and really see and feel your reaction. When

you can feel as grateful now as you would

when you heard the news that the person’s

health had been fully restored, it will guarantee

that the gratitude you feel is as sincere and as

powerful as it can be.

You can also use this powerful practice when

you’re walking down the street or going about

your day and you come across someone who is

obviously lacking happiness, health, or wealth.

Imagine you have a Magic Wand, and in your

mind wave it by giving heartfelt thanks for

their wealth, health, and happiness, and know

that you have set a real force of energy into

motion.

Using gratitude to help someone else with his

or her health, wealth, and happiness is the

single greatest act of gratitude you can

perform. And one of the magical things about

it is that the health, wealth, and happiness you

fervently wish for others, you also bring to

yourself.

Magic Practice Number 24

The Magic Wand

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Choose three people who you care about

and who you would like to help with more

health, wealth, happiness, or all three.

3. If you have them, collect a photograph of

each of the three people, and keep it in

front of you while doing the Magic Wand

practice.

4. Take one person at a time, and hold their

photograph in your hand. Close your eyes

and for one minute visualize the person’s

health, wealth, or happiness has been fully

restored, and you’re receiving the news.

5. Open your eyes, and with the photograph

still in your hand, say the magic words

slowly: “Thank you, thank you, thank you

for Name’s health, wealth, or

happiness.”

6. As you finish with one person, move on to

the next person, and follow the same two

steps until you’ve finished the Magic Wand

practice for all three people.

7. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 25

Cue The Magic

Imagine that the Universe is friendly and

caring, and that it wants you to have

everything you want in life. Because the

Universe can’t just walk up and hand you what

you want, it uses the law of attraction to give

you signs and cues to help you receive your

dreams. The Universe knows you have to feel

gratitude to bring forth your dreams, so it

plays its part in the game by giving you

personal cues to remind you to be grateful. It

uses the people, circumstances, and events that

surround you in your day as your magic cues

to be grateful. It works like this:

If you hear an ambulance siren, the magic cue

from the Universe is to be grateful for perfect

health. If you see a police car, your magic cue

is to be grateful for safety and security. If you

see someone reading a newspaper, it’s your

magic cue to be thankful for great news.

If you want to change the weight of your body,

when you see another person with your perfect

weight, it’s your magic cue from the Universe

to be thankful for your perfect weight. If you

want a romantic partner, when you see a

couple madly in love it’s your magic cue to be

grateful for the perfect partner. If you want to

have a family, when you see babies and

children, take the magic cue and be grateful for

children. When you pass by your bank, or an

ATM, it’s your magic cue to be grateful for

plenty of money. When you arrive home, it’s

your magic cue to be grateful for your home,

and when a neighbor calls in to have a cup of

coffee, or you wave to them across the street,

it’s your magic cue to be grateful for your

neighbors.

If you happen to see one of your material

desires on your list, such as your dream house,

car, motorcycle, shoes, or computer, of course

it’s your magic cue from the Universe to be

grateful for your desire now!

There are unlimited and creative ways the

Universe has to magically cue you to be

grateful in your day-to-day activities. You can

never misunderstand a magic cue or get a cue

wrong, because whatever you think a cue is

for, you’re right! The Universe uses the law of

attraction to magically cue you, and so you

always attract the exact cues that you need to

be grateful for in that moment.

Magic Practice Number 25

Cue The Magic

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Today, be alert to what’s around you, and

take at least seven gratitude cues from the

events in your day. For example, if you see

someone with your perfect weight, say,

“Thank you for my perfect weight!”

3. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 26

Magically Transform

Mistakes into Blessings

Every single mistake is a blessing in disguise.

Today’s magical practice will prove it, because

you’re about to discover that there are actually

untold blessings hidden within every mistake!

We have the freedom to make our own

choices, and that means we have the freedom

to make mistakes. Mistakes can hurt, but if we

don’t learn from the mistake we’ve made, the

pain we’ve suffered from it has been for

nothing. In fact, by the law of attraction, we

will make the same mistake over and over

again, until the consequences hurt us so much

that we finally learn from it! It’s the very reason

why mistakes hurt, so that we do learn from

them and don’t make them repeatedly.

To learn from a mistake, we first have to own

it, and this is where many people can become

undone, because they often blame someone

else for their mistake.

Let’s consider the scenario of being pulled over

by the police for speeding and being given a

speeding ticket. Instead of taking responsibility

for the fact that we were speeding, we blame

the police because they were hiding in the

bushes on the highway around a bend, we

couldn’t see them, they had a radar gun, and

so we didn’t stand a chance. But the mistake

was ours, because we were the one who chose

to speed.

How do you learn from a mistake? Gratitude!

No matter how bad something may seem,

there are always, always, many things to be

grateful for. When you look for as many things

as you can to be grateful for in a mistake, you

magically transform the mistake into blessings.

Mistakes attract more mistakes, and blessings

attract more blessings – which would you

prefer?

Today, think about a mistake you have made

in your life. It doesn’t matter whether it was a

big or small mistake, but choose one that still

hurts when you think about it. Maybe you lost

your temper with a person close to you and the

relationship hasn’t been the same since. Maybe

you put blind faith in another person and got

burned. Maybe you told a white lie to protect

someone, and because of it you ended up in a

difficult situation. You might have chosen the

cheaper option on something, and it all went

wrong and ended up costing you a whole lot

more. You might have thought you were

making the right decision about something, but

it completely backfired on you.

Once you’ve chosen a mistake to magically

transform into blessings, look for the things to

be grateful for. To help you, there are two

questions you can ask yourself:

What did I learn from the mistake?

What are the good things that came out of the

mistake?

The most important things to be grateful for

about every mistake are the things you learned

from it. And no matter what the mistake, there

are always many good things that came out of

it and altered your future for the better. Think

this through very carefully, and see if you can

find a total of ten blessings to be grateful for.

Every blessing you find has magical power.

I would strongly urge you to take any mistakes

you’ve made in your life that you still feel bad

about, and in your own time, follow this

magnificent and magical practice. Think about

it; through one mistake you have the power to

bring many blessings! What else guarantees

dividends like that?

Magic Practice Number 26

Magically Transform Mistakes Into

Blessings

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

2. Choose one mistake you made in your life.

3. Find a total of ten blessings you’re grateful

for as a result of making that mistake, and

write them down.

4. To help you find blessings, you can ask

yourself the questions: What did I learn

from the mistake? And: What are the good

things that came out of the mistake?

5. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 27

The Magic Mirror

“The appearance of things changes
according to the emotions, and thus we
see magic and beauty in them, while the
magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931)
POET AND ART IST
You can spend the rest of your life running
around trying to beat the outside world into
the shape you want, chasing one problem after
another trying to fix them, complaining about
situations or other people, and never succeed
in living your life to the fullest and realizing all
of your dreams. But when you make the magic
of gratitude your way of life, everything in the
world around you magically changes – just like
that. Your world magically changes because
you changed, so what you are attracting
changed too.
In the inspirational words of Gandhi and in the
lyrics of Michael Jackson’s song, “Man In The
Mirror,” which impacted hundreds of millions,
one of the most powerful messages of all time
was delivered:
Change the person in the mirror, and your
world will change.
If you have followed the 26 magical practices
to this point, you have changed! And even
though it is sometimes hard to see the changes
in yourself, you will have felt the change in
your happiness, and you will have seen the
change of improved circumstances in your life,
and the magical changes in the world around
you.
You have practiced the magical power of
gratitude for your family and friends, for your
work, money, and health, for your dreams,
and even for the people you come across each
day. But the person who deserves your
gratitude more than anyone else is you.
When you are grateful to be the person in the
mirror, feelings of dissatisfaction,
discontentment, disappointment, or I’m-notgood-
enough completely disappear. And with
them, every dissatisfying, discontenting, and
disappointing circumstance in your life
magically disappears too.
Negative feelings about yourself cause the
greatest damage to your life, because they are
more powerful than any feelings you have
about anything or anyone else. Wherever you
go and whatever you do you take those
negative feelings with you in every moment,
and those feelings taint everything you touch,
and they act as a magnet, attracting more
dissatisfaction, discontentment, and
disappointment with everything you do.
When you are grateful to be you, you will only
attract circumstances that make you feel even
better about yourself. You have to be rich with
good feelings about yourself to bring the riches
of life to you. Gratitude for yourself enriches
you!
“Whoever has gratitude (for themselves) will
be given more, and he or she will have an
abundance. Whoever does not have gratitude
(for themselves), even what he or she has will
be taken from him or her.”
To do the Magic Mirror practice, go to a mirror
right now. Look directly at the person in the
mirror, and out loud say the magic words,
thank you, with all your heart. Mean it more
than you ever have before. Say thank you for
being you! Say thank you for everything that
you are! Say thank you with at least the same
amount of feeling you’ve used for everything
and everyone else! Be grateful for you just as
you are!
Continue with the Magic Mirror practice by
being grateful to that beautiful person in the
mirror for the rest of the day today, and say
the magic words, thank you, every time you
look at yourself in a mirror. If you’re not in a
position to say the magic words out loud at
any particular time, then you can say them in
your mind. And if you’re really brave, you can
look in the Magic Mirror and say three things
about yourself that you’re grateful for.
If for any reason in the future you are not
being kind to yourself, you will know to give to
the one person who deserves your gratitude
more than anyone else – the person in the
mirror!
When you’re grateful, you don’t blame yourself
when you make a mistake. When you’re
grateful, you don’t criticize yourself when
you’re not perfect. When you’re grateful for
being you, you are happy, and you will
become a magnet to happy people, happy
situations, and magical circumstances, which
will surround you wherever you go and in
whatever you do. When you can see the magic
in that person in the mirror, your whole world
will change!

Magic Practice Number 27
The Magic Mirror

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten
blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread
your list, and at the end of each blessing
say thank you, thank you, thank you, and
feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.
2. Each time you look at yourself in a mirror
today, say thank you, and mean it more
than you ever have before.
3. If you’re really brave, while looking in the
mirror say three things you’re grateful for
about yourself.
4. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold
your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the
magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.

Day 28

Remember The Magic

Every day is unique; there is no day like any

other day. The good things that happen each

day are forever different and forever changing,

and so when you Remember The Magic by

counting yesterday’s blessings, no matter how

many times you do it, it will be different every

time. It’s just one of the reasons why

Remember The Magic is the most powerful

ongoing practice to maintain the magic of

gratitude in your life. No matter what your

desires are now, or what desires you will have

in the future, this magical practice will remain

the most powerful practice for your entire life.

The easiest way to remember the blessings of

yesterday is to start by remembering the

beginning of the day when you woke up, and

go back over the day in your mind, recollecting

the major events of the morning, afternoon,

and evening, until you reach the time when

you went to bed. When you recall yesterday’s

blessings it should be effortless; you are just

scanning the surface of yesterday, and as you

scan, the blessings will bubble to the surface of

your mind.

You can start this magical practice by asking

the question:

What are the good things that happened

yesterday?

Whenever you ask a question, your mind will

immediately look for the answer. Did you

receive any great news? Did you magically

receive or accomplish one of your desires? Did

you magically receive unexpected money? Did

you feel especially happy? Did you hear from a

friend who you haven’t heard from in a long

time? Did something go magnificently well for

you? Did you receive a great phone call or

email? Did you receive a compliment, or did

someone express his or her appreciation for

you? Did someone help you to solve a

problem? Did you help somebody? Did you

finish a project or start something new you’re

excited about? Did you eat your favorite food,

or watch a great movie? Did you receive a gift,

resolve a situation, have a stimulating meeting,

quality time with someone, a great

conversation, or make plans for something you

really want to do?

Remember The Magic and list yesterday’s

blessings on a computer, or write them out in

a journal.

There is no set number of blessings to find

from yesterday, because every day is different.

But I can assure you that every single day of

your life is full of blessings, and when you

have opened your eyes to see the truth of this,

you will have opened your heart to the magic

of life, and your life will be abundant and

magnificent.

“Whoever has gratitude will be given more,

and he or she will have an abundance.

Whoever does not have gratitude, even what

he or she has will be taken from him or her.”

Remember The Magic – it was created for you!

Magic Practice Number 28

Remember The Magic

1. Count Your Blessings: Make a list of ten

blessings. Write why you’re grateful. Reread

your list, and at the end of each blessing

say thank you, thank you, thank you, and

feel as grateful for that blessing as you can.

You have written 280 blessings over the

course of this book!

2. Remember The Magic by counting the

blessings of yesterday, and writing them

down. Ask yourself the question: What are

the good things that happened yesterday?

Scan the surface of yesterday until you feel

satisfied that you’ve remembered and

written down all the blessings of the day.

3. As you remember each one, simply say the

magic words, thank you, for it in your

mind.

4. After today you can do this practice as a

written list, or out loud or in your mind.

You can make a quick list of the things

you’re grateful for about yesterday, or make

a shorter and more detailed list and say

why you’re grateful for them.

5. Just before you go to sleep tonight, hold

your Magic Rock in one hand, and say the

magic words, thank you, for the best thing

that happened during the day.