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When I have trouble writing, I get my ideas from writing every night.I write five things that I am grateful for that day. I do it at night,that way I go to bed every night thinking about the good things in my life rather than any negative things. You wake up with a much fresher outlook on life as well. Some days it is very hard to come up with five things to be grateful for, other days I can list a hundred. I keep a gratitude journal now for many years. When ever I feel low, I go back and read all the things I have to be grateful for in my life. Boy, are there a lot! I use these ideas, to write about. Sometimes, the ideas I wrote the day before. What do we have to be grateful for? Some days I had to list: the air I breathe, the house I live in, that I was alive. After awhile, I found I was looking at flowers and seeing them and writing I was grateful for seeing them, or smelling the rain, or the sun going behind the clouds while I was driving, a deer in the woods, the woods. I started to see things with a new eye, and with gratitude for the first time. Simple things. It made life so much better, not to mention my poetry.
Good luck to you.
Cheryl
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Author notes
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This is not an original idea of mine....but I pass it freely to you. This idea comes from a book called Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach (pictured above)
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Written May 18th, 2004
A contest entry
- Inspiration by RoseBlossom.
300 points, ended June 7, 2004, 19 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Simple advice with great appeal... It has been some time since Ii have writen anything that I can read over and smile and think "yeah, I wrote my best and it is good" . A great piece and best of wishes to you as well... ~genielassie~
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Get the book, Simple Abundance, and write what I said.....5 things before you go to bed....only things you are grateful for....more if you want. You go to bed thinking of good things...not bad. It really helps. I know journaling unhealthy things are good, but do that during the day, not at bedtime. Sleep with Gratitude on your mind. Good luck. Cheryl
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wow. i think you just solved my life. lol...but like, letting go of my journal and all my memories,,..but i haven't had much inspiration lately and ever since i started venting in my journal, my writing and outlook have beome entirely unhealthy...if oyu have any advice for me please IM me :-\i could use some.
love always,
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Well done
This is such a good way to live and work! My first thought in the morning is gratitude that I have a new day. For a while it was O God, why do I have a new day, but as I continued to be thankful for life, I found more things, ordinary things to be happy about, and soon it was all happy again.
This was a good piece of writing, and straight from the heart. Good luck in the contest!
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