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Did you know that the practice of gratitude can increase your level of happiness by around 25%?

Saying ‘Thank You’ for the things in life that we are grateful for seems like such a simple and easy thing to do, but I’m surely not alone in doing this far too infrequently.

To rectify the situation I’d like to say a big thank you to my beautiful baby girl and my wonderful wife; I love you both very much.

I’m grateful for all my family and friends. I hope to see many of them when I’m back home in Dublin during my Christmas holiday.

I want to thank you, the reader, for taking the time to read my ramblings. Hopefully they’ve been a help to you in some way, or at the very least an entertaining read.

I’d like to thank Dirk du Toit and all the other traders I have meet on my trading journey so far. It’s been wildly more interesting than I’d ever imagined and has played a huge role in shaping me to be who I am today.

Being grateful on a more regular basis could be a very good New Year’s Resolution. I hardly ever do New Year’s Resolutions; I don’t want to give up my daily indulgence in a small piece of dark Belgian chocolate, thank you very much. This one could be a keeper though.

The topic of gratitude brings to mind a story I heard of a man who used to keep a stone in his pocket that he had collected from a beach. He kept the stone with his house keys and would put the stone in his pocket along with his keys every morning. Each evening when emptying his pockets he would remove the stone along with his keys.

The stone was his reminder to be grateful for something in his life. Every time that he touched the stone he would reflect for a second on something or someone that he was thankful for. The stone became his conduit for everyday gratitude.