In Honor of Thanksgiving, Best-Selling Author and Huffington Post Blogger Natalie Pace is Highlighting Six Ways that Gratitude Leads to Wealth

    SANTA MONICA, CA, November 27, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- "Thanksgiving affords us the perfect opportunity to count our blessings. What many of us don't realize is that gratitude is one simple action that can lead to lasting, permanent change in every aspect of our lives - from wealth and health to living a rich life," according to Natalie Pace, the author of The Gratitude Game: 21 Days to a Healthier, Wealthier, More Beautiful You. In honor of Thanksgiving and to celebrate the release of her new book, Natalie Pace is featuring 6 ways that gratitude can help you shift out of debt and struggling to survive and into living a rich life, with money to invest, to give to charity and to enjoy.

According to Natalie Pace: "Debt is similar to dieting. When you adopt healthy fiscal habits, you create wealth. When you try to "crash diet" and pay down debt in one lump sum, you're more likely to balloon back up to serious debt fairly quickly because you are still chained to the unhealthy money habits that got you into debt in the first place." The tips create permanent, lasting change.

6 Ways That Gratitude Leads to Wealth

1. The Origin of Money is Gratitude.
2. The Thrive Budget.
3. Fun.
4. The Billionaire Game.
5. The Fire Ritual.
6. The Rich Life, Instead of Making Everyone Else Rich

And here's how it works...

6 Ways That Gratitude Leads to Wealth

1. The Origin of Money is Gratitude. Before there were dollar bills and gold coins, there was gratitude. In prehistoric times, if you saved the life of someone, they might bring you food for a year, or help you build a house to shelter you from storms. If you can't be grateful today for all of the conveniences and blessings we enjoy, it's not because they aren't awesome. It's because your budget is out of whack.

2. The Thrive Budget. When you limit the amount you spend on housing, food, transportation and insurance to 50% of your income, then you have 50% left over to invest in passive income (money while you sleep), the charity of your choice, education and fun. It's easier to feel grateful when you aren't buried alive in bills or drowning in debt! Yes, this requires a creative restructuring of your life.

3. Fun keeps you healthy by releasing natural antioxidants and happy hormones. Fitness fun actively promotes health. Health is wealth! Healthy people work, enjoy their money and spend far less on medical bills. With 1/3 of Americans obese and almost $3 trillion spent annually in the U.S. on medical care, a lot more fun is part of the cure!

4. The Billionaire Game. Are you trying to keep up with the Joneses - are you a spender - or are you investing in your dreams - as entrepreneurs and billionaires do? The Billionaire Game, one of the features of The Gratitude Game, challenges you to imagine how you would live if you had all of the money in the world, and then guides you how to take steps to make your dreams real.

5. The Fire Ritual. Are you whining about your problems or creating the solutions? The Fire Ritual is designed to turn you into a problem-solver, who consciously creates a life she can be very thankful for.

6. Love, Forgiveness. Resentment, hatred and all negative emotions are like being stuck in a mud puddle. Past mistakes are useful as a map to dodge future pot-holes. However, sitting in the mud day after day talking about all of the silt on your clothes doesn't help anything. Better to get up, brush yourself off, give thanks that you're still around to sing a new song and continue on up the path to greater health, wealth and wisdom -- avoiding similar pitfalls, as you go.

The Gratitude Game: 21 Days to a Healthier, Wealthier, More Beautiful You is available now on Amazon. Day 3's Mantra is: Gratitude. As Natalie Pace says, "The beauty of The Gratitude Game is that as you become a person that others are more grateful for, they will begin showering more tokens of their thanks (money) on you. Who knows? You may be the next J.K. Rowling or Nelson Mandela; there is absolutely something that you are here on this planet to do better than anyone else. And when you find that, you will be richly rewarded - not just in material possessions, but also in living the life of your dreams."

Natalie Wynne Pace is the bestselling author of The Gratitude Game, The ABCs of Money and Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is (aka You Vs. Wall Street, in paperback). The ABCs of Money has been ranked at or near #1 Investing, Basics (free) on Amazon for over 18 months (since March 31, 2013), with over 125 reviews, of which almost half are 5-star. Natalie Pace has been ranked a #1 stock picker, and is a repeat guest on national TV and radio shows such as CNBC, Good Morning America, Fox, ABC-TV, Forbes.com, NPR and more. Her budgeting and investing strategies have saved homes and nest eggs for more than a decade. Her mission is to add a splash of green to Wall Street and transform lives on Main Street. As a strong believer in giving back, she has been instrumental in raising tens of millions for public schools, financial literacy, the arts and underserved women and girls worldwide.

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