Editor’s Note

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Yes you, the one holding this in your hands right now. It is because of you and your support for this magazine that we are still here. So, thank you! We most definitely do not take your support for granted. We do our absolute best each and every issue to inspire you, to educate you and to connect you to businesses here on the Sunshine Coast that may be relevant to you.

We have a rule inside Matters Magazine: this issue must be better than the last. Trust me, that isn’t always easy to follow, but we give it our all each and every issue.

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Sometimes I think the importance of gratitude isn’t fully understood. I personally have found that the more grateful that I am, the better I feel about my life. I learnt that gratitude wasn’t just a word to give lip-service, “I am grateful for…” listing all of the things I was grateful for like a robot, which I did for a while because I thought that was what I was supposed to do. I realised that I needed to actually FEEL gratitude and truly get in touch with the FEELING of my gratitude and remind myself in the moment of why I was grateful for the thing I was SAYING I was grateful for. I then took it a step further, actually imagining myself sending gratitude from my heart out to the person or the things, really feeling how having that person or thing in my life made such a difference to me.

That is when I really started to feel more and more satisfied with my life, more and more overwhelmed by how fortunate I was. Soon, I was able to recognise and focus on the good things in my life more and more. Sure, the bad stuff was still there, I just taught myself to pay it less attention and pay more attention to practising FEELING my GRATITUDE for the good stuff.

Like the Pantene commercials would say, this doesn't happen overnight. But, like anything, the more you practise, the better you get. Then eventually, like driving a car, it becomes second nature.

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