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Welcome to Create Your Life, a free bi-monthly newsletter dedicated to helping you, the reader, discover and express your own truth and magnificence. As a professional lifecoach, I help individuals and groups create lives they love through supported, consistent action.   (For more information, please visit the other pages of my website).

This newsletter is my gift to all of you who want to improve and enrich the quality of your lives. Its purpose is to provide you with lots of useful tips and tools on how to make small, positive changes and transform them into lives of choice, lives that truly reflect who you are and want to be.

A Word About Gratitude

I love this time of year. It used to be because of Thanksgiving and my birthday - I love holidays - and it still is, but there’s also this other piece that has come into my life, since I joined the on-line community, which so enriches my Novembers. And that is the gratitude lists that people send out to me and others, sharing the blessings in their lives. They have an amazing effect on me, for which I am very grateful.

When I was growing up I was encouraged to be thankful for what I had but it didn’t really resonate with me. It sounded more like quit complaining. But now I get it. Now I know the purpose of “counting your blessings” and I look for them everywhere. Here’s why.

Most of us have an understanding that the universe and everything in it is made up of energy. That includes our thoughts and feelings, so when we focus on something we are, in essence, projecting out energy in the form of our thoughts. The feelings behind those thoughts are what magnetize that energy and, since like attracts like, we attract back what we send out.

When you focus on the things that you have and that you’re happy you have, or what you’re thankful for that’s working in your life, the energy around that might be happy, positive, excited, joyful, peaceful, relaxed, secure, liberating, glad, connected, satisfied, etc. Now, if that’s what you are sending out, guess what you’re getting back?

And it’s a double deal. If you’re sending out good stuff, you’re attracting good stuff into your life. And, if you’re focusing on good stuff, you’re NOT focusing on negative stuff so you’re NOT attacting more negative into you’re life. It’s sort of like an investment plan - where do you want to invest your energy? And where can you get the best return, according to your needs and desires?

This goes out to all of you after Thanksgiving for two reasons:
1) because the one I tried to send you on Wednesday mysteriously disappeared somewhere between my word processing and my e-mail programs and
2) to encourage you to keep your focus on what’s working and what you are thankful for throughout the year, not only at Thanksgiving, so you can be attracting what you desire all the time.

CHALLENGE

Get yourself a little notebook and write down 5 things every day that you are thankful for. Watch your experience of abundance begin to shift immediately.

Since other people’s gratitude lists have the same effect as my own, of shifting my energy, I’d like to return the gift and share my list:

I am so grateful for:
· such a supportive and accepting husband
· the love and health in all my family
· my cats who remind me what’s important every day
· the beautiful, clean and peaceful environment I live in
· my relationship with God
· my Life Makeover group
· all my wonderful clients who teach me so much
· the ability to experience the miracle of life every day
· feeling like I know my life purpose
· all the people who help me take care of myself
· my neighbor, whom I never see but who I know loves me
· my teachers

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