Daily gratitude journals are very powerful...we are basically recording thoughts of the heart to be read by loving universal energies. Everyone is capable of finding things to be grateful for...most just get too caught up in the heartache of those cycles of negativity. Persistence is key...because nobody is perfect. I find the combination of writing things down and saying them out loud...and even just repeating them in the mind with good intention like a mantra...and visualizing them too...manifest and draw closer the desired reality so much faster. It makes me happy to hear that your two year process of turning your life around is going so well and you can see some of the results of your hard work all around you!