This 30-day journal was created to jumpstart an optimistic outlook of gratitude, therefore challenging the reader with encouraging daily affirmations. These daily passages and declarations were written to reawaken a perspective of focusing on what a person has, rather than what a person does not. By turning a negative situation to a positive one, modifies how a person thinks and reacts to everyday issues and struggles of life. The goal upon completing this journal is to inspire the hopeless mindset for a brighter future, impart and obtain wisdom through taking a self-journey of enlightenment, and a sense of accomplishment when completing the challenge to embrace life with a smile, knowing that it will get better.