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The Gratitude Diaries
The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life | Janice Kaplan
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In this inspiring memoir backed by cutting-edge research, Janice Kaplan spends a year living gratefully and gains a fresh outlook that transforms her marriage, family life, work, health, and everyday experience. The Gratitude Diaries follows journalist and former Parade editor in chief Janice Kaplan as she learns to gain a positive perspective and improve her life by becoming more grateful every day. In her fresh and witty journey, Kaplan discovers that gratitude isn't the same as happiness (which can be fragile and fleeting) but has deeper emotional roots, is longer-lasting, and is impervious to change or challenges. Relying on both amusing personal experiences and extensive research, Kaplan discovers how gratitude can transform every aspect of life, including marriage and friendship, money and ambition, and health and fitness. She interviews dozens of experts--including doctors, neuroscientists, researchers, academics, and philosophers--and gathers extensive data from the national gratitude survey she conducted, to offer surprising findings about why gratitude changes your outlook in any situation. Through interviews with real people including celebrities like Matt Damon, Daniel Craig, and Barbra Streisand, Kaplan discovers why gratitude matters in everything from our success at work to our children's happiness. With warmth, humor, and vision, Janice's journey seeks to empower readers to start thinking positively and change their lives.
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BookBelle84
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On living your life with gratitude and joy

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Insightsintobooks
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bookishdawg
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“...second guessing wasn‘t allowed. It didn‘t matter where you‘d been - only where you now planned to go.”
I‘m working on sustaining a gratitude practice this year, and this book was a great place to start. ❤️

Chrissyreadit Are you in Oregon? Beautiful! 6y
bookishdawg @Chrissyreadit Close! It is of Mt Hood, taken from the Washington State University campus in Vancouver 😊 6y
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Eggs
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💙💙💙 6y
vkois88 ❤❤❤ 6y
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TheKidUpstairs
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! @Sills I LOVE everything! Two great books from my TBR, the most adorable tea towel, some super delicious sounding tea, and the tea infuser that I have been COVETING ever since I saw it on another Litten's post!!! And a super yummy, comforting, and easy to make recipe for sausage tortellini soup that looks like it will be a staple of my dinner rotation! Thank you again!

@MinDea @TricksyTails

Sills @TheKidUpstairs So glad you love❤️I had fun putting it together😊 7y
TricksyTails So lovely!! 👏😊♥️ 7y
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What a great book to read right at the end of the year!!! It‘s given me a wonderful New Year‘s Resolution to look at the world differently!!!! Totally recommend

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QueenBook
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It‘s my favorite day! Get to pick my #BOTM selection 😁🤗🙌🏻

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heikemarie
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After a truly crazy week - I came home to a back to school care package from my #litsypenpal! I love everything @NCNY and can't wait to put everything to great use!! 💜💜💜thank you!

heikemarie @NCNY I am currently feeling the pressure to put the Best Quote Ever™ on the marquee so obviously great idea! 7y
TrishB Lovely💟 that's what my kids call them - litsy care packages - they text me and tell me when they're here. 7y
NCNY I hope you have a great school year! Thank you for being a teacher. 🙂 7y
NCNY @inwhichHeikereadsharder Ha! Please post it once you've decided. 7y
GA_Bookworm07 How dpes one get a litsy pen pal? Ive pen palled for 20+ years and love it. 7y
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kspenmoll
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MrBook Great pic 😁👏🏻! 8y
BB1958 Any book about Gratitude is likely worthwhile 8y
kspenmoll @MrBook Thanks! Simple can be good! @BB1958 So true 8y
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kspenmoll
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#WinterSolsticeBookExchange #SecretSantaGoesPostal
Thank you so much @Chrys ! Love the Book Lover's Diary; don't own one! Bookmark is lovely, and can't wait to read the book- perfect for my Christmas break from teaching! And chocolate❤️💚such fun to open one by one- 🎁😍

MrBook 😁👏🏻 8y
BookishMarginalia Woohoo👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 8y
kspenmoll @MrBook such fun! @BookishMarginalia Enjoyed this spirit of giving & exchanging so much! Thx for all your work to make this happen! 8y
ChasingOm Thom has always been one of my favorite authors. I tore through his catalogue when I was in high school, and I read "Follow the River" every five years or so. 8y
kspenmoll @ChasingOm thx ! Have not read his books; plan to enjoy this! 8y
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kspenmoll
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#WinterSolsticeBookExchange #SecretSantaGoesPostal @BookishMarginalia
Such generosity! All the way from Missouri. Love the wrapping!

MrBook 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 8y
BookishMarginalia 💝💝💝 8y
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kspenmoll
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#WinterSolsticeBookExchange #SecretSantaGoesPostal @BookishMarginalia Arrived today- 👏😀🎄🎅☃️ will open & post soon.

Suet624 It arrived!!!!! 8y
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kspenmoll
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#thankfulfor #photoadaynov16 @RealLifeReading
Happy Thanksgiving to all you Littens! Thankful for this site, family, friends, my furry pets, a job with people I love,books, walks- I am blessed. Our Thanksgiving spread that my husband excitedly prepared, along with a pre dinner drink my son made us: Poinsettia- 1/2 oz cointreau, 3 oz cranberry juice in a champagne flute- top with champagne. It was delightful! I just clean up!

MrBook Awesooooommmme!!! 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻! 8y
kspenmoll @MrBook awesome it was!💚 8y
britt_brooke Yum!! 8y
Mommamanzi This looks amazing! 8y
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kspenmoll
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When you rise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive--to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. - Marcus Aurelius

Goal to finish The Gratitude Diaries this month & attack my November #tbr stack. TBR pictured plus my #botm selection. #photoadaynov16 @RealLifeReading

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TeacherRecommends
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Has anyone read any of these? Have heard mixed reviews of them all and don't know which one to start on first!

LitLogophile I liked Glass Sword better than Red Queen. It gets away from the repetition of themes from other YA novels, but still has a lot of flaws. 8y
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kspenmoll
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Starting my day with gratitude and coffee!

mcctrish I need this book 8y
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SincerelyStacie
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This book is reminding me that being grateful is the key to daily happiness. It's so easy to focus on the negative in any situation but Kaplan shares how to find the good in everything. It's a great read so far!