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niques, and they have creatively changed his wholeapproach to life. He is now able to see the good inevery day. I met him one wild, snowy morning.Nature was letting loose with everything: wind,cold, and snow in a tempestuous demonstration ofwinter at its worst, or its best, depending upon theviewpoint. And this man’s viewpoint was unmistakable.With a broad grin he called to me, “Isn’t thisa glorious bad day?”He had learned how to wake up creatively. At theoutset, he mentally conditioned himself to enjoying“Count your blessings.”a good day that day and every day, and so the accumulatingdays turned out to be good for him.4. A beginning-of-the-day technique I find most helpfulis to add up quickly all the things for which I canbe thankful. Usually I do this addition of blessingsmentally, but sometimes, when discouragement isparticularly strong, I list my life assets on paper sothat my eye may see, as well as my mind compute,the number of blessings I possess. The more you“count your blessings,” naming them “one-by-one,”as the old hymn says, the better, and happier, yourday will be.7