"Today I am grateful for a wife, 4 children and a daughter-in-law who are all working hard to find out what it is their Savior would have them do in life and then do it."

"Today I am grateful for another experience of realizing that I am, indeed, safe and provided for."

"I am grateful for days, like today, when my gratitude gallops gleefully ahead of me and I have to skip to keep up with it, instead of haul it behind me like a wagon load of manure, hoping it will carry its own weight - by tomorrow."

"I am very grateful for healing work that I do. I work long, hard hours, but I really enjoy helping people feel better. How many people can say that they love their work or feel that they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing?"

"Today, I am grateful for a Loving God who nutures me. I am grateful for my 89 year old Mother who has cared for me and is still vibrant, helpful, and alive. I am grateful for my Granddaughter Hayley who holds my hand, trusts me, and I know loves me somewhere in her very special heart. I am grateful for good health which sustains me. I am grateful for my friends and acquaintances who care about me and bring so much joy into my life. And, finally, I am grateful for libraries, and internet, and transportation which constantly open new vistas in my horizon and let me appreciate this vast world and its infinite knowledge and power available to all those who are curious enough and ambitious enough to embrace them."

"Today I am grateful for gentle friends, and a loving Heavenly Father."

"I am grateful for Divine Connections in my life - My family and friends. We laugh and cry together. With them I feel I belong and am loved. They are my greatest teachers. We validate each other. When depleted I seek them out. They renew my spirit I am blessed. I am also grateful for roadblocks and failures in my life. They turned out to be valuable lessons that led me to new opportunities and connections I wouldn't have had otherwise. They presented new Lifepaths."

"Today I am grateful for all wonderful people in my life who challenge me to think differently."

"The scent of freshly cut grass coming through my open windows."

"Today I am grateful for opening my eyes to see my husband on my side and my pug at my feet. I am grateful to look out my bedroom windows to see another day full of possibility as sun slowly warms up my sweet backyard alive with quail, doves, hummingbirds, rabbits and all kinds of natures noises. I am grateful to feel my breath as it wanders through my body waking me up. I am grateful that I have one more day to enjoy, and be amazed, and be involved with life. And I am very grateful that I can go through another day full of awe and gratitude."

"Today, I am grateful for my life, health, and for my mother still being alive."

"I'm grateful for support of many, many wonderful women in community."

"I am grateful for being able to carry message that Light and Love is always present and everlasting. I get to do this on a moment to moment daily basis. I am grateful for all loving people that I am blessed with in my life. I am grateful that universe provides completely and abundantly. I am grateful to be alive and living full out."

Copyright 2002 Doreene Clement All Rights Reserved

Doreene Clement is the creator of The 5 Year Journal, a journal where you can write about your life in one book for 5 years. You can tour the book at www.the5yearjournal.com dkcomni@aol.com 480.423.8095

Process and explore As you write, it is a process of exploration into who you are, and what you are thinking. It is an examination of what it is that you carry with you, in your mind, everyday.

Reduces stress, helps focus, and organizes Journaling is a proven method to reduce stress, because expression and clarity through journaling your experiences removes tension from that experience. With less tension, you can be more focused, and it becomes easier to see and then focus on what is really important to you, for you, and your career.

Can improve well-being, and makes time for you Through keeping a journal, with all benefits that you can receive, there are studies proving that journaling improves well-being. With journaling you stop and think about what you are experiencing or needing.

Creates a personal reminder You can use your journal to remind yourself and even people you work with of not only deadlines and timeframes, but you can outline specific targets in your journaling. Your journal becomes a planning and organizing tool as you use it to set specific goals for yourself, individuals, and for your company.

More journaling benefits Departments, and Co-workers Journaling

Another powerful force that you can create is to suggest everyone in a department journal on a specific solution or problem. Individuals can also journal about where they would like to see their department go in next year, 2, or 3 years. You can create topics or have staff create journal topics that can benefit department or company as a whole.

Blue Sky What if…. Blue Sky is a brainstorming technique where sky is limit, and since sky appears to have no limit, you can GO FOR IT.

You can use your journal as a blank palette to create all dreams and ideas, all those thoughts that can be recorded without fear that they can't or won't happen Journal your thoughts, ideas, dreams, and desires without any concern that this, that, or other would have to be, or have to happen, before your idea can come true.

30 day journals…are an effective way to focus on specific problems or concerns. You would keep a separate journal and write about one situation for 30 days. (You can also use more, or less than 30 days.) Journaling is a way to process. Concentrating on one topic for a set amount of time, narrows focus and energy to a specific concern.

Copyright 2002 Doreene Clement All Rights Reserved

Doreene Clement is the creator of The 5 Year Journal, a journal where you can write about your life in one book for 5 years. You can tour the book at www.the5yearjournal.com dkcomni@aol.com 480.423.8095