Finally revealed...The astonishing power of gratitude
and the solution to the 5 big mistakes that
keep most people from putting it to work for them!

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Daily Gratitude Newsletter
Volume 4, Issue 15 - September 2008
Putting Gratitude To Work For You
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"B-25's, Heart Attacks, and Gratitude"

Today we have a special guest article from a man whose wisdom I have come to greatly admire. Richard Russell is 84 and still writing a daily commentary on the stock market, interspersed with insightful thoughts about what he has learned from life. I thought that his comments on adversity and appreciation were well worth reading.

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"I look back over my own life, and I marvel at how or why I've lived to the age of 84. I grew up during the Great Depression. I've been held up at knife-point twice, once in Harlem, NY, and once in San Francisco on Market Street. I had a severe mastoid infection when I was 8 years old, and almost died during the operation -- this was before antibiotics, when surgeons literally had to cut out the infection. I lived through World War II, and I had a painful double hernia operation. I suffered two heart attacks and a quintuple by-pass operation. I recently suffered a stroke. I lived through a big motorcycle crash and a number of narrow motorcycle close-calls (I rode cycles for 45 years).

To put it succinctly, I appreciate and am amazed by the fact that against all odds, I'm still here and still alive.

It's funny, I well remember one incident during WW II as if it was yesterday. I was huddled in the nose of my B-25 bomber, and I had just released our bomb-load. I could see black puffs of flak exploding all around us. Some of the fragments were bouncing off our plane, and they sounded liked stones hitting sheets of metal. I was scared out of my mind, and although an agnostic I suddenly said to myself, "Please God, get me out of his one alive, and I'll never ask for anything again."

Today if I suffer a loss I think back and appreciate the fact that I'm still alive. Against great odds, I'm still here. And today I'm not hurting. If I were to lose everything I own I would still be here. I know I'm a lot better off now than I was when I was having a heart attack, and I'm a lot better off than when I was flying missions during WW II.

Appreciation, it's the antidote to the sorrow and pain of losses that you might have taken in the stock market or somewhere else. Remember that word -- appreciation. It's the way out of depression and pain."

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Yes, appreciation! Being grateful for what we have instead of unhappy about what we don't. I think that gratitude has been a key to Russell's long and productive life, especially in overcoming adversity.

You can read more of Richard Russell at Dow Theory Letters. Be sure to read his "Rich Man, Poor Man" article and give it to your kids.

I appreciate all of you faithful readers,
Wes

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