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Manifesting Ideas:
Wish Lists for the Whole Family to Enjoy

We're used to making holiday and birthday list. Actually we list things we are going to buy and do all of the time from phone calls we need to make to our groceries for the week. 

This season, use some of the list paper for what you'd like to 'see' for your family and relationships. Not the simple goal of what to accomplish but who you'd like to become and how you'd like to respond to those around you.

Holiday Wish Lists eBook here

Doing this as a family exercise can and will set a different tone for the holiday season. It will help all of your family members get to know you better and you'll get new insight into them and what their internal priorities are. 

You can also do this at a get together and with friends. 

Be as creative as you like. There's many different list pages, so that you can pick the best page for the list you're going to make in this particular sitting. 

~ The key to this exercise... think worldly, broadly and innerly. You can do it! And, as with anything, the more you do it, the better you'll get at it. And, before you know it, you and everyone you did the exercise with will be living it!

Enjoy this eBook with 35 different Holiday Wish List designs. It's fun for the whole family!  You can use them for everything from lists of stocking stuffers, gifts they want to give their friends and for wishes to help change the world. They are super cute. Enjoy!  (Click here to get the eBook now)

Gratitude Stories

These stories can compliment the lists you made beautifully or you can take a completely different route. Again, this exercise and how you'd like to spin it for you and yours is completely up to you.

Holiday Heart Paper here

You can write about things, people, emotions, memories... anything and everything you can think of. If it's in you life (in any way, shape or form) you can be grateful for it.

The pictures are so cute! There's a bunch for you to choose from and they are all lined so it will make writing a certain amount easy. (If you'd like to use the same paper for a longer exercise than just one page, you can do that , too.) 

If you need some ideas, read this blog entry. It will help. 

Being grateful is a state of being. It's a frame of mind, a deep appreciation for all that is in your life and all that will be. You're training yourself, your friends and family to connect to that inherent feeling of Being Blessed. 

Super cute holiday heart lined paper. There's 24 different designs. You can use them for a variety of writing exercises. Print the one you want at the time or print the whole eBook. It's up to you and it's fun for the whole family! (Click here to get your eBook now)

Cute Holiday Ideas

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The greatest thing about living during this time is the internet. It's an amazing source of information! 
With social media booming, you can find just about everything! A great place to look for all types holiday ideas is Pinterest. Why Pinterest? It's the pictures! The toms and tons and tons of pictures. You have unlimited room to pin as many things as you like! You can separate your boards and label/title them anything that you want to. And, you can share them with the world, keep them completely to yourself or only add people that you want. You can even create boards that your family and friends can pin to. Not sure what someone wants for a gift? Go check out their Pinterst account. I guarantee you'll be surprised! lol And, it will make all your holiday shopping easier! And, Pinterest is totally free. Enjoy! (Click here to Check it out!)

Free Holiday Activity Books for Kids

There's a plethora of holiday activity books for kids of all ages. Many of the books and activities are created for the whole family to enjoy together.

Visit our Everything Holiday! Section  

Notes about the Free Activity Books: 

Why the eBooks are free and how We got Started ~

Due to rising costs and educational cut backs, Changes Made Easy .com and Full of Love Pet Supplies .com has created a series of eBooks for parents and educators to help make their jobs a little bit easier, save you some time and add some fun.

The eBooks re set up so that you are able to print the whole book or just the pages you'd like to use that day.

Our eBooks contain exercises that focus on improving communication, vocabulary, spelling patters, keeping the innocent and imaginative part of childhood alive, story writing and enhancing creative and critical thinking skills.

We hope you enjoy using them as much as we enjoy making and giving them to you.

An Attitude of Gratitude

A Month of Gratitude
Have you been doing your daily 'What I'm Thankful For' this month?  If you have, you're ahead of this exercise! If you haven't, no worries. You can start today! You may want to get some scratch paper to jot your list down on. Be sure it's big enough for everything or have a couple of sheets available. You'll be listing 30 different 'things' you're grateful for. (There's 30 days in November.) Try to get a variety of things that you're grateful for in your life. You're going to want to cover: Mental, Emotional, Physical (your body), Spiritual, Material (things), and Financial (money stuff) for yourself and then, of course, all the people and animals in your life... You could add Social, Recreational, Your Work and/or School and anything else you can think of. You could even start a separate list of categories of things you're going to write about being thankful for. (The organizing is completely up to you, these are just ideas. think 'balanced' when you're doing this and you should be able to cover all aspects and areas of your life pretty easily.)  Contemplate what you're writing down. This isn't meant to be done in five minutes. This is a contemplative exercise that you're going to want to put some time and effort into. (Hence the scratch paper, you'll be making a Gratitude Journal and there's a link for free Gratitude Journal pages for you to print out.) After you have the wording that you want, transcribe your list into your Gratitude Journal. Be sure to date it! 
Take your time with this. Remember, this is usually an exercise that you do for the entire month! Enjoy this exercise. You're looking over and reviewing your life. That in itself is something you could put down... That you have the time, the space, the will and the ability to do this exercise.

Here's a Simple & Fun Holiday Idea:
This year send out Gratitude cards! You can use them with or instead of Holiday Cards or/and add a 'Thank You' and/or a 'Why I appreciate You' in your cards that you send out this year. You can also add it to your emails and/or gifts. 
Being grateful is a wonderful habit to get into! You'll be surprised how compliments and feelings of appreciation begin to to pour out of you once you begin to focus on everything you love in your life. you'll naturally become more positive and secure; those are some of the side effects of focusing on what you already have instead of what you want. And, what a fabulous way to start... telling everyone in your life how much you appreciate them! Holiday cards are a great way to communicate your adoration; you're sending them out anyway! If you're not doing cards or gifts... You can always call them! If you're not used to expressing yourself in this way, make a little list or notes to yourself before you talk to them. If you're uncomfortable, rehearse it. You can practice in your mind, with another person or by looking in the mirror or saying it out loud. Oh, and smile when you're doing it. Really. Practice talking with a smile. It will make a difference! If you're a social media person, find pictures, quotes (or think up your own!) that talk about gratitude and how thankful you are. You may be surprised by how many people respond to your positive postings, tweets, statuses and pins! Spread the Joy! 

Craft Time!
Make a Thank You Journal with a Gratitude Collage Cover! How fun! There's so many ways that you could do this. 
The Inside:You can decorate a notebook, get a journal and decorate the cover, you can make the cover and print the pages from the Free Gratitude Journal for Kids and insert them into a three ring binder or go to a store and have the book bound for you. (If you use the print outs, there are two different sizes of printed paper, download the examples to see which will fit the journal you're making for yourself the best. Click here to get the journal pages now.)
You have so many options. Pick one that fits you and you like... Be sure it's something that you are going to like using and writing in regularly. Be conscious of the size, shape and binding. you want to make this as convenient for yourself as possible. 
The Cover~you can draw, paint or write on it. You can decorate it anyway that you like. You can cut out pictures and glue or tape them on. You can seal it with glue, laminate it, use spray so that it doesn't smear. It's completely up to you how you'd like to protect it. Practice first. If it's pictures you're using, line them up before you stick them on permanently. If you're drawing or painting, do some rough drafts. And there's everything you can do on the computer! You could even make a collage online and print it out. 
This is a gratitude collage. It's things, people and moments that you have or have already had. This isn't a create what you want exercise, it's an I appreciate my life, as it is, right now exercise. 
The Substance: Here's the content section. You may want to set some goals about how often you're going to use your journal; the only thing you really should do is date the entries, other than that, it's anything thing goes and anyway you want to do it! This is your journal about what you appreciate in your life. The entries should reflect what you are grateful for. (Try to keep everyone else's voices out of your head while you're journaling, writing and crafting. Tune into you and where and why you feel grateful, blessed, loved, that deep sense of appreciation.) Need ideas about your entries? You can add your exercise of A Month of Gratitude. you can write about wonderful moments in time that you are thankful for. You can put in your accomplishments and challenges you have overcome. You can write about how lovely the weather is and how blessed you are to be alive. You can even meditate on gratitude and write about your experiences. you may find that each and every meditation is different!
What Now? You enjoy it! And, you did it! Congratulations! That's it. It's that simple and easy! You can vary this anyway you like. You could turn this into a family project night, do it with your partner or by yourself. You can change it up, fill it up and make a new one in a week or next year. If you set the same time each day or each week to write in your journal you'll find that contemplating and focusing on what you appreciate in your life will quickly become a habit; you're welcoming in and training yourself to have an attitude of gratitude. 

Gratitude isn't just about accepting, receiving or acknowledging and appreciating what you have, it's also about Giving. When you are centered in deep appreciation for yourself, your life and those around you, it opens you to have the inner space to be able to give back, contribute to society and help those around you. What's your contribution to the world? How can you be of service? How can you spread more love and joy? This would be a great meditation and a good journal entry, even if you made a list of ideas or goals that you'd like to do. How could you spread this feeling (gratitude) to others?

Free Gratitude Journals for the Whole Family to Enjoy!

Free (downloadable) Gratitude Journals!  These are great for the whole family! You can print the entire journal or just the pages that you'd like to use for the sitting/exercise. There's two different journals to choose from ~ download the example pages to decide which journal will fit your exercise the best. The lay outs are the same but the numbers of lines on the pages are different in each journal. Each journal comes with 5 sets of  one picture page and two lined pages. Click here to see them now. 

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Start your Day Right

How incredibly blessed we are that every day is a new day. 

You choose what each day means to you, what you're going to do with it and how you're going to handle it. Starting your day out right is about setting your intention. You decide how you feel everyday and what you are going to accomplish. If you do not make the conscious and physical effort to tell yourself what you want, then you are letting your subconscious mind decide and do what it has been programmed and trained to do. 

The fist few moments in the morning are so precious. You're in an altered state. Your subconscious mind is open to suggestion. And, if you are aware, you'll hear those subconscious thoughts as you start to wake up or as the sleepy fog begins to lift. 

If you have the wherewithal, say nice things to yourself in this state. 

Before you start your day, try to carve out (just) 10 or 15 minutes to write out what you'd like for the day.

Getting your head right before you start your day, sets your entire day up to be the way you want it. This is your day. You create it. You change it. You live it and you control your reactions to it.

Getting your mind where you want it to be every day will change your whole world. Yes, you need to do it everyday. Yes, it gets easier. And, yes, you can find the time. If it's important to you, you'll find away. There are more ways to get things done than there excuses to why we can't. 

Taking control of your day is one of the kindest, most empowering things you can do for yourself and it only takes a few minutes each day.

We all don't have time first thing in the morning to relax and think or even have time for ourselves. If you're rushed  in the morning or if your home is full of life early, do the exercises before bed or the day before (whenever you have a few minutes alone). You can reread what you've written before you start your day.

Set your intention for today.

You may find that you like to write a paragraph, a list of goals or create your own affirmation. You may find that each day is different or that you snuggle into a habit that fits you perfectly and is exactly the same everyday. Whatever you do, it's great. You're doing it and that's the point. You're telling yourself that you are serious and this is what you want for the day. It sets it up in your mind as a high priority, even if you never think about it until tomorrow morning when you're writing out your intention.

When you make this a regular part of your life, you'll find that you get more done, accomplish your goals easier and are calmer and more relaxed inside. You naturally become more in-tune with yourself because you are paying attention to yourself, you are attending to your needs and you are being very clear about what you're expecting from yourself.

When you're first starting, you want to try this different ways; you want to find what works best for you. If this seems overwhelming, use just one or two sentences and follow these simple rules:

• be clear and concise
• be specific (with what you want to accomplish)
• use the present tense
• be realistic

~ I live a spiritual life.

~ I make healthy choices for myself and my family today.

~ Today I act on the messages I receive.

~ I handle everything at work today with patience and grace.

~ I get everything done on my to do list easily

~ I choose to be fully engaged in all of my tasks today.

~ I focus on appreciating ___________ today.

As you continue this exercise (every day) you'll be surprised how much more you are enjoying your life, staying present and improving your relationships.

As simple as this may seem, the impact is huge. You'll reap the rewards of doing this regularly. You'll begin to look forward to it and trust that it works and be able to observe the impact it has had on your life.

Download/Meditation Recommendation:

Hypnosis to Start your Day

Make today the best day you have ever had! This hypnosis download sets you up to have a great day. You are able to choose what you want your day to be like and where you want your focus to be. Would you like to have a super fantastic day? Well, this download makes it simple and easy. All you have to do - is listen to your download. (click here) To get the maximum benefit, it is recommend that you get the Hypnosis Workbook (click here) and the Making Today the Best Day you Have Ever Had Journal (click here) to go with your download. Click here or go to Changes Made Easy .com and you'll find them in the I Love Hypnosis Downloads .com Section.

Happy Independence Day, America!

The 4th of July is a celebration of our independence, those that have fought for it and our great and deep appreciation of all the service men and women that have served to keep her free. We honor our Forefathers and remember and enjoy our freedoms. We celebrate the 4th of July with fireworks, parties and parades. We spend it with our family and friends. We look forward to it all year long. It's America's Birthday.

Thought for the Day and Evening

Use today (this evening) to think about and meditate on what sacrifices are made to claim and create independence and freedom. You may want to think about it on a large scale (a country) or on a smaller, more personal scale. Spend time in appreciation of what others have done to pave the way for you in your life and revel in gratitude.

Writing Exercises

~ Take some time to define what  independence and freedom mean to you (as a definition) and in your life. You need to know how you think and feel about something if you want to create more of it, get rid of it or change it. (The first step is always knowing how you feel and think about something.) Being clear about independence and freedom in yourself and your life increases your ability to bring what you want into fruition and eliminate what you don't.
~ A wonderful exercise is to make a list to remind you of all of the freedoms you enjoy in your life. You could list your possibilities, your dreams, your hopes. Be as detailed as you like. Take as much time as you are comfortable with. 
~ A wish list would be a fabulous exercise for today.
~ If there's something you want to be free of ~ today is a great day to contemplate it.
~ If you have a journal, use today as an entry focusing on independence. You could take any angle that you'd like; what you have, what you'd like to have or what you wished you have. 

Contemplation Exercise before Bed

Before going to sleep tonight, spend a few minutes to review everything that you are grateful for in your life. Think about your choices and the joy that you have choices in your life. Even the smallest choice can be a huge gift. Where ever you find yourself in the world, whatever state you find yourself in life ~ feel the deep connection to Spirit that you have and the miraculous feeling of free will. You always have more options than you realize. Use today to tune into that Higher Part of you, feel  the connection you have with the past and the hope that moves you into the future. Every moment, each thought ~ every day is a new day. Every new day brings gifts of opportunity.  

Recommended Download/Meditation:

Moving Forward

Are you ready to move forward and eliminate and remove anything and everything that is holding you back? This meditation is to remind you that you are in charge of your life. If there is any part of your life that you feel stuck in, are unsure of what to do or just simply want your life to get going... this meditation is for you. It's simple and easy to get you where you want to be and have all of the steps laid out for you clearly. You set your goals and eliminate anything that is stopping you from having them. Do you think you may have a block? This download makes it simple and easy to get rid of! Click here for more information.