Melody Beattie provides a six-week action plan, challenging people to practice her miracle exercise for forty days. she instructs listeners to complete a daily gratitutde list, which includes what they don't like about their lives, and provides a series of activities that will help them recognize what miracles they want to create. It's crucial, she shows, for people to be grateful for what they have and what they are, not what they want or wish they were.