If you would like to experience the best day of your life so far,
simply perform the following 3 part exercise:

Part 1
Take out a sheet of paper and pen, or use your computer.
Now, for just a moment, imagine that this is your last day on Earth.
What would you do if this were true?

Make a list. Include everything you would like to accomplish if this
truly were your last day on Earth. Would you visit your grandmother?
Would you make amends with those old enemies? Write it all down.

Part 2
Do the things on your list.

Take a walk on the beach. Go to the playground and swing on the
swings. Give the last dollar in your pocket to that homeless person.
Tell all those you love how much you really love them, and how deeply
they affected your life. Cry. Laugh. Leave nothing out. Hurry now! Do
it all! You only have one day!

At the end of the day, you will realize that you have spent just one
day being truly and gloriously ALIVE. You have wasted not a precious
moment. You did not gripe and complain today. You did not take a nap
today. You did not condemn a single soul. You forgave everything
truly. You saw with new eyes just how precious a gift you have been
given.

Most importantly, you may have woefully realized just how many of
these glorious days you allowed to slip by you, unaware. And when at
last you rest, you will experience a peace and a joy you have not
felt in many years.

Part 3
Do this every day.

You life can become an unending source of peace, joy, love and
contentment. You can make this so. It is easily within your ability
to hold in your hands all that your Higher Power holds out to you
each and every day, though you see it not.

Do not berate yourself for your past mistakes. For, though it did not
seem so at the time, our addiction brought us face to face with the
only thing that could give us all of this; our Higher Power. Allow
your Higher Power to guide the ship that is your life today and see
where it leads you.

I have taught many this simple little exercise. All who have learned
and have come to practice this idea have told me that this technique
contains within it the power to change their lives forevermore. In my
last book it was the first exercise and also the last exercise, for
it is the beginning of wisdom and it is the end of wisdom.

Now, the only question that remains is:

Will you do it?

Best,

Don M.
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