The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life (Thorndike Press Large Print Lifestyles) - Hardcover

Kaplan, Janice

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9781410485953: The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life (Thorndike Press Large Print Lifestyles)

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ISBN 10: 1410485951 ISBN 13: 9781410485953

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2016

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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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Praise for The Gratitude Diaries

"Uplifting and entertaining, this book is sure to give readers a more positive perspective."
--Booklist

"If you liked Sheryl Sanberg's Lean In... read Janice Kaplan's The Gratitude Diaries."
--Time Magazine

"Kaplan's plan to be more grateful is approachable for anyone. Her conversational tone is encouraging, like talking to a good friend who's having a great day and wants to share it with you... Simple, effective procedures that can be easily incorporated into even the busiest lifestyle."
--Kirkus
"Kaplan's study is insightful and loaded with compelling research and solid techniques for positive thinking, and her own example provides the most convincing testament to her ideas."
--Publishers Weekly
"The subtitle says it all: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life. Kaplan interweaves anecdotes from her year of living gratefully with interviews with doctors, psychologists, philosophers, artists and A-list actors, teaching you that working at being happy pays off."
--American Way

"A heartfelt, thoughtful, and entertaining read on how we can bring more gratitude into our lives. It's like The Happiness Project meets Thanksgiving--a guided tour through the science and experience of appreciation."
--Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take

"Janice Kaplan has written a warm, inspiring, wonderful book, showing each of us how gratitude and focusing on our blessings can transform our lives."
--Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of Jemima J and The Beach House

"Can there really be such a thing as a hardheaded woman's practical guide to living in gratitude? There can and there is. After reading about Janice Kaplan's transformative year, I'm here to say I believe it!"
--Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Deep End of The Ocean
"I recognized myself in almost every word of Laura's excellent book. And tracking my hours was an eye opener for me, as it appears I'm one of the people who's been unrealistic about how I spend my days. This book is liberating, useful, and so important in this era in which everyone seems to feel overwhelmed."
--Celeste Headlee, author of We Need to Talk

Book Description:

In this uplifting personal story of her transformation 'from grumpy to grateful', Janice Kaplan encourages us to pause, take stock and be grateful for what we have in life in order to improve our health and wellbeing.

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