Every Day Thankful. Becca Anderson
Читать онлайн.| Название | Every Day Thankful |
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| Автор произведения | Becca Anderson |
| Жанр | Здоровье |
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| Издательство | Здоровье |
| Год выпуска | 0 |
| isbn | 9781633535282 |
Copyright © 2017 Becca Anderson
Published by Mango Media Inc.
Design: Laura Mejía
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Every Day Thankful: 365 Blessings, Graces and Gratitudes
ISBN: 978-1-63353-527-5
Printed in the United States of America
Deepest love and appreciation to the elders in my family who survived the Great Depression and shared stories of living through hard times with humility and a sense of gratitude. I owe you so much for the wisdom.
Wake at dawn with a winged
Heart and give thanks for
Another day of loving.
—Khalil Gibran
Table of Contents
February - Matters of the Heart
September – Harvest Your Blessings
October – Gratitude and Giving Go Hand in Hand
November – Count Your Blessings
December – Time for Celebration and Appreciation!
The Importance of Living Life as a Thank You
by Nina Lesowitz
Are you tired of walking around with a hole in your heart? Do you need more inspiration? Studies show—and experts counsel—that gratitude is a key component of our own happiness. People who are grateful about events and experiences from the past, who celebrate the triumphs instead of focusing on the losses or disappointments, tend to be more satisfied in the present. In her popular book The Secret, Rhonda Byrne writes, “With all that I have read and all that I have experienced in my own life using The Secret, the power of gratitude stands above everything else. If you do only one thing with the knowledge of this book, use gratitude until it becomes your way of life.”
The recent buzz surrounding the power of gratitude is overwhelmingly positive. Jeffery Zaslow, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, recently wrote there may be a positive by-product of the troubled economic times that followed the 2008 stock market dive: a decrease in the urge to complain. “People who still have jobs are finding reasons to be appreciative. It feels unseemly to complain about not getting a raise when your neighbor is unemployed,” he wrote. “Homeowners are unhappy that home values have fallen, but it’s a relief to avoid foreclosure.”
Indeed, in these times of economic woe, gratitude is popping up everywhere. Turn on the TV. We listened as a career coach on The Today Show advised job seekers to put the words “thank you” in their job search tool kits, declaring that the key to distinguishing oneself from the masses is to send a thank you note. Click on to Facebook and check out the gratitude groups, where hundreds of people log on each day to give thanks for everything from the sun rising that morning to their neighborhood dog parks. Cathy, of Greenville, South Carolina, wrote, “I am grateful for a bark park to take my dog-children to, so I picked up extra poop and trash this morning.” Mary, from Philadelphia wrote,