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One of the best focus tools of all is gratitude, quite simply because thoughts of gratitude are the best thoughts of all! Why are thoughts of gratitude the best thoughts of all? Because life is a gift! And feeling gratitude brings you closer to the truth about life. It’s as simple as that. Life, this amazing thing we call life, has simply been given to us! And it’s ours! The gift of life! And we’ve done absolutely nothing to deserve it. It’s simply beyond comprehension when we actually try to understand that we have life! That life is ours. That we are alive. Living, breathing, being, right now today, right this very moment. Unfortunately, most of us are so busy running around like chickens without our heads that we rarely, if ever, notice that we have been given the gift of life.
   What have we done to deserve this?
   What have you done to deserve this?
   What have I done to deserve this?
   What have any of us done?
   It’s beyond doing, isn’t it?
   It’s beyond mind-boggling.
   Look, here I am. Look, there you are! Look! There is this. This! Sitting here. This. This! With this body, this mind, these fingers typing away at this keyboard to you whoever or whatever you are that is reading this… it is just beyond comprehension. Isn’t it? And not only that, it’s such an adventure too. Can you see that? Can you feel it? Deep inside you? Can you see the amazing way it’s been set up for us so that everything—and I mean everything—is happening for us. Can you see that now? How it is all unfolding just for you? And that you haven’t done anything whatsoever to deserve it and you don’t have any idea what it is or where it’s going. And you don’t even know what’s going to happen a minute from now even though we like to think we do. But in reality, do we? So it’s always an adventure for us, isn’t it? We’re always in the middle of a great adventure.  And then it changes again… So yes, grateful thoughts, the prayer of gratitude, the song of gratitude, the melody of gratitude, however you find it, however you sing it or express it… go there and do it! It’s your birthright we’re talking about here, the reason why you want to live, the thing that makes your heart sing, the mystery, the magic, the melody, the love, the joy… Gratitude is the open door to all of it. Gratitude! But only you can walk through the door of gratitude for you. (From my book, "The Awakening Human Being")