Hello!

Welcome to SevenPractices.com, companion website for my book, Pay Attention, Say Thank You – Seven Rules & Practices for Joyful Living. If you’re here because you are reading the book and want to access Exercise 1 and the other links mentioned in the book, you’ll find them all in Reader Resources in the menu bar.

If you have questions about Joyful Living or stories to share about Living Love, please email me here.

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Thanks for visiting – come back again soon!

-Gail Woodard

About the book:

Pay Attention, Say Thank You is a simple guidebook that takes you through seven life practices which can bring joyful living to anyone. If you try the practices, you will see results.  But don’t believe me.  Try the practices and then believe your own experience.

The first three rules, Pay Attention, Say Thank You and Be Quiet are easy behaviors to incorporate into your life.  The remaining practices – Releasing Resistance and Fear, Heart-Centered Living, Creating Your Own Reality, and Changing the World – are a bit more complex.  To me, they are ongoing, creative approaches to living life with intentional joy.

It is the conscious performance of these practices, the practicing of them, that allows remarkable change and growth to occur.  Unless you use them daily, they will remain simply words and concepts, and your life won’t change.  These practices are like aerobic conditioning for your spirit.  Just as increasing your aerobic capacity for your body requires physical exercise, so increasing your capacity for joy requires steady exercise and practice.

Plenty of intelligent science backs up my claims, but to me what is more important is that you  jump in and have your own experience, experimenting bit by bit.  You’ll find ways to reorganize your thinking patterns consciously to overcome your own resistance and patterns of belief.

If you reach the final chapter, be prepared. Here’s where I encourage you to do, if you’ve moved yourself into joyful living: take it on the road.  Conducting experiments in love to change the world is a delicious practice that the world desperately needs from you.  All it requires is conscious effort to shift your thinking and to act intentionally with love. This final practice calls on you to use your knowledge to bring joy and creative responses to life’s circumstances involving others.

Each of us can really do something now to change the world around us.

About me

Mother, writer, teacher, publisher, traveller, banking executive, consultant, waitress, cashier and Girl Scout – all labels that capture some piece of my life.  Presently based in southern Arizona, I write and publish, travel as often as possible, and find every opportunity I can to spread a little love around. Makes for a magical day.