I've been on a bit of a self help kick recently. The latest book I read was The Secret. You might have heard of it. I was scared to tell people that I was reading it. The book seemed to get a lot of flak from cynical types (of which I was one). So I took the dustcover off it and read it only when I was at home. What took the book many pages to tell you I can tell you in a few words: What you think is what you'll get. If you think you're a piece of crap, then you'll only get crappy situations in life. If you think you're the bees knees, you'll find yourself in great situations and many fantastic opportunities will abound. While there's some problematic assertions in The Secret (if you have an illness you willed it there yourself through negative thinking - say what?!), the one major take away from it that I found super useful was the exercises of finding gratitude in your life. The book has you journaling all of the things that you could