USING THE MAGIC OF GRATITUDE

     
     The blogger purchased the run-away best-seller, "The Secret", in one of the stores in New York when we were visiting the family of our nephew in New Jersey. Authored by Australian writer Rhonda Byrne, the book is about the law of attraction, a sort of a guide that that would get you anything you want. Meaning, you have to be positive, think and feel that what you wished for is there and on the way. That book was circa 2007 and the writer has produced two other inspirational books since then--"The Power" and "The Magic". The last one was given as a gift by my son and his wife, who at present are working in different countries-- he in Singapore, and she in Toronto.
     The book advises that if you want things done, you have to express gratitude before embarking on an undertaking. The writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton used gratitude before he goes to work for the realization of his dream and desire. As cited by Byrne, here is what he says before he does things: "You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and give grace before the play and the pantomime, and grace before I open a book and grace before before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, before I dip the pen in the ink."