The Magic
by Rhonda Byrne
Twenty-eight days of gratitude practices: listing ten things each morning, gratitude for health, money, relationships, the past, with a magic-rock ritual. Strip the metaphysical framing and it is a structured gratitude program, and gratitude is one of the best-supported practices in positive psychology. The best of Byrne's books for that reason.
Read it if…
you want a structured daily gratitude practice and can ignore the framing.
Skip it if…
the language of magic puts you off; a plain gratitude journal does the same.
Three things you will actually use
- Specific gratitude beats general.
- Daily practice changes baseline mood over weeks.
- The ritual is optional; the practice is not.
Do this first
Do day one: ten specific things you are grateful for and why.
Our verdict
Gratitude program in costume.
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