Give Thanks: A Gratitude Journal

By Josie Robinson

What does it take to go from feeling down to feeling grateful? Is it possible to learn how to become a happier, more positive person? Grab a pen, and get this guided gratitude journal and find out!

 

Anyone can enjoy the benefits that come from practicing gratitude―they just need some guidance. Give Thanks is a gratitude journal that shows you how to get the best results from this proven practice and to become your most whole, joyful self each day.

 

From exploring how to give gratitude in advance to manifest the life of your dreams, to focusing your gratitude on a specific area to find healing and transformation, each practice inside this journal features a new and meaningful way for you to discover the beauty and the blessings of everyday life.

 

Empowered with joy and positivity, you'll discover how good it feels to LET GO of negative thoughts and start writing about the good things in your life, and, create the groundwork for even more good things to come.

 

"...this is more than a journal, it's a tool on the journey to happiness and wholeness."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wise Ink Creative Publishing
• Release date: Feb 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781386126522

Josie Robinson

Josie Robinson is a licensed counselor who helps everyday people navigate this hectic modern world with gratitude and grace. Josie created Give THANKS, a simple, yet powerful self-help technique that combines the stress-relieving benefits of gratitude with the mental clarity of mindfulness. Now, Josie's mission is to teach others the power of a simple "thank you" and to quietly start a gratitude movement around the world.

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Introduction

Acres of Diamonds

In the early 1900s, a minister named Russell H. Conwell gave one of the most famous motivational talks of all time. Russell gave this talk over six thousand times, and when he published it into a book, it became an immediate best seller and instant classic. To this day, it’s still considered to be one of the best speeches ever given with a message that’s as relevant now as it was back then. His talk was called Acres of Diamonds, and it went something like this . . .

When I was traveling through the Tigris and Euphrates rivers many years ago, I found myself under the direction of an old Arab guide. He entertained me with many stories. Many of them I have forgotten, and I am glad I have, but there is one I shall never forget.

The old guide told me there once lived not far from the River Indus a man by the name of Ali Hafed. He said that Ali Hafed owned a very large farm, and was a wealthy and contented man.

One day a Buddhist priest visited Ali at his farm. The priest told Ali about how this world of ours was made. He said that this world was once a mere bank of fog, and that the Almighty had thrust His finger into this bank of fog, and began slowly to move His finger around, increasing the speed until at last He whirled this bank of fog into a solid ball of fire, then flooded its surface with water to create mountains, prairies, and forests. He also told Ali that when the inner molten core of Earth burst out and cooled very quickly it became granite; less quickly copper, less quickly silver, less quickly gold, and, after gold, diamonds were made.

The old priest told Ali Hafed that if he had one diamond the size of his thumb he could purchase the country, and if he had a mine of diamonds he could place his children upon thrones through the influence of their great wealth.

Ali Hafed heard all about diamonds, how much they were worth, and went to his bed that night a poor man. He had not lost anything, but he was poor because he was discontented, and discontented because he feared he was poor. He said, I want a mine of diamonds, and he lay awake all night.

Early the next morning Ali sought out the priest. Ali Hafed said to him:

Will you tell me where I can find diamonds?

Well, if you find a river that runs through white sands, between high mountains, in those white sands you will find diamonds.

So Ali Hafed sold his farm, collected his money, left his family in charge of a neighbor, and away he went in search of diamonds. Ali spent the rest of his life wandering the continent searching unsuccessfully for diamonds. Finally, worn out and in a fit of despondency, he threw himself into the sea and sank beneath the surface, never to rise again.

Meanwhile, the man who purchased Ali Hafed’s farm one day led his camel into the garden to drink, and as that camel put its nose into the shallow water of that garden brook, the farmer noticed a curious flash of light from the white sands of the stream. He bent down and picked up a stone. It was a black stone having an eye of light reflecting all the hues of the rainbow. He brought the stone home and put it on his fireplace mantel, and forgot all about it.

A few days later this same old priest came in to visit the farmer, and the moment he opened the