Choose Gratitude Not Attitude Even When Sh*t Hits the Fan!

By Beverlee Harbour Gopp

Has one ‘bad’ day ever ruined your whole week? This ebook is the perfect vehicle for self-discovery. It’s a thirty day journal filled with beautiful, relaxing photographs and stories. It has eighty pages of thought-provoking, inspirational messages that magically transform the reader.

Don’t wait another minute! Get started on your gratitude journey today and ultimately happiness will be yours--no matter what is going on in life. Completing this interactive journal will help you discover gratitude in ways you never imagined and will help you find self-love, contentment, and bliss. When you change your attitude, you will change your life!

Do you want to be in a fantastic mood every day? Do you want to have great relationships with the people that you care about? Do you want to be successful at work and get along well with your boss and co-workers? Do you want abundance in your life? Do you want to be able to live fully knowing that you are loved? Well, you can! You only have to change your mindset and step into gratitude.

This is a thirty day interactive journal that motivates readers by sharing a daily story of inspiration followed by a list of ten reasons for gratitude. Provoking and introspective questions invite participants to determine and write out their own gratitude. Witty humor and wisdom provide coaching in response to life's upside down moments.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Beverlee Harbour Gopp
• Release date: Sep 12, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466139978

Beverlee Harbour Gopp

My journey toward gratitude started after I lost my job in the mortgage industry. The company that I spent five years with closed their doors and my six-figure income disappeared. Soon I had mounting credit card debt and had used all of my savings and retirement to pay the bills. I looked for work, sent out resumes and participated in countless interviews. I became depressed, angry, scared and lifeless. My passions for walking and writing were amplified after I stopped the pity party and began blogging about all that I was grateful for. I became a Motivational Coach with an intention to inspire and motivate others through movement. Stepping into one's brilliance often requires a little nudge and accountability. This is what I offer through this journal: An opportunity to discover what you are grateful for and allow yourself to get past the blame and negativity and instead navigate your way toward self-love, appreciation, contentment and bliss.

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Beverlee Harbour Gopp

One of my passions is walking. As a Motivational Coach my intention is to inspire and motivate others through movement. Stepping into your brilliance often requires a little nudge and accountability. This is what I offer through this journal. An opportunity to discover what you are grateful for and allow yourself to get past the blame and negativity. To navigate your way toward self-love, appreciation, contentment and bliss.

Walking in the NOW is a philosophy focused on living in this moment. You are not your past. Together we will work on releasing the worry and fear of tomorrow.

In an economic time that has left many struggling financially, most of us have chosen unhealthy sources to compensate for our losses. I invite you to come with me as like-minded souls and walk toward our goals with honesty and intent, while learning to focus on our gratitude and be mindful of the words we use.

When you change your attitude you will change your life.

Learn how to be appreciative, happy, energetic and joyful.

There are five rules to creating happiness:

• Free your heart from hatred.

• Free your mind from worries.

• Live simply.

• Give more. • Expect less.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Table of Contents

Give Thanks

Gratitude Contract

Day 1: The Gratitude List

Day 2: Learning Gratitude

Day 3: Top 10 Reasons Why I'm Grateful Today

Day 4: Gratitude or Attitude

Day 5: Grateful for Opportunities

Day 6: Noticing the Change

Day 7: Having a Great Day Anyway

Day 8: More Gain Less Pain

Day 9: Abundance Doesn't Always Have a Dollar Sign

Day 10: Gratitude Underneath A Tragedy

Day 11: To-Do Or Not To-Do

Day 12: Grateful for Noticing the Little Things

Day 13: Who I am Grateful for Being

Day 14: More Positive - Less Negative

Day 15: Trespassing Turns Into Gratitude

Day 16: Complaining or Appreciating

Day 17: Being Grateful with Words

Day 18: Changing the Language Pattern

Day 19: Gratitude and Motherhood

Day 20: How to Share the Story

Day 21: Guns and Gratitude

Day 22: Grateful for Variety and Options

Day 23: Every Day is a Clean Slate

Day 24: Being Grateful Even When You Don't Want To

Day 25: Gratitude for the Hats You Wear

Day 26: Sometimes Gratitude Starts with Breathing

Day 27: Being Grateful Brings Pleasure

Day 28: Grateful for Your Gifts

Day 29: Gratitude for Role Models

Day 30: Intentional Gratitude

Gratitude and Motivation Poem

Acknowledgements/References

Give Thanks

By: Jill Duman as published in the Yoga Journal Magazine (2011):

Cultivating gratitude can boost well-being and may help you sleep better. Gratitude is a fundamental component of most spiritual paths and a growing body of research suggests that it has important health implications, too, including better sleep, fewer physical ailments and a greater ability to cope with stressful situations.

Gratitude elevates, it energizes, it inspires, it transforms says Robert Emmons, a University of California, Davis, psychology professor who has helped champion the study of gratitude as a factor in mental and physical health.

A series of studies he conducted in 2003 found that people who kept weekly written records of gratitude slept longer, exercised more frequently, had fewer health complaints and generally felt better about their lives when compared with those who didn’t.

Practicing conscious gratitude has also been linked with positive mental health. Todd Kashdan, associate professor of psychology at Virginia’s George Mason University found that when veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder kept gratitude journals, they experienced a greater sense of overall well-being in their lives. There are two parts of being grateful, Kashdan says. One is recognizing that someone benefited in some way, then mindfully seeing the connection to yourself. You have to be really in the present to see what’s happening in your life, what’s causing things to happen, and how you fit this into things bigger than yourself.

A gratitude practice is a natural companion to yoga, which offers numerous opportunities to reflect on all there is in one’s life to be grateful for, says Emmons. To begin consciously cultivating gratitude, try considering what life would be like without a pleasure you now enjoy, or think about who you are grateful for. A daily gratitude journal can help you be more mindful of these things in your life. But your gratitude practice doesn’t have to be scripted. Simply taking time on a regular basis to mentally note your blessings is a step in the right direction.

A Contract Between Me, Myself and I

I, ______________ commit to discovering at least ten reasons why I am grateful every day. I will write these reminders of gratitude daily and honor the blessings that I am surrounded with. I acknowledge and agree that this is a thirty-day program and I will participate each day. When I notice myself starting to speak in a negative manner, I will reframe the content of my conversation to highlight the positive attributes.

This contract is by and between Me, Myself and I______________.

DAY 1

THE GRATITUDE LIST

My journey of gratitude started after I lost my job in the mortgage industry. The company that I spent five years with closed their doors and my six-figure income disappeared. Soon, I had mounting credit card debt and had used all of my savings and retirement to pay the bills. I looked for work, sent out resumes and participated in countless interviews without ever getting a job. I became depressed, angry, scared and lifeless.

I knew I had to do something to stop the pity party. I started walking every day. During these field trips into nature I would leave my troubles behind and concentrate on the brilliance that surrounded me. I practiced living, breathing and walking in the NOW. I began writing all that I was grateful for into a journal. In discovering all of my blessings the focus shifted. The sadness of who I used to be, and what I used to have, dimmed as the awareness of my gifts brought me hope. I began to realize I had a lot to be grateful for. I had family, friends, love and health. I was breathing, I could talk and I could walk. These are life’s simple joys and pleasures. With gratitude I started changing my