The Gratitude Diaries
How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life
(Sprache: Englisch)
In this New York Times bestseller, Janice Kaplan spends a year living gratefully and transforms her marriage, family life, work and health. Her pioneering reseach was praised in People and Vanity Fair and hailed on TV shows including Today, The O'Reilly...
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In this New York Times bestseller, Janice Kaplan spends a year living gratefully and transforms her marriage, family life, work and health. Her pioneering reseach was praised in People and Vanity Fair and hailed on TV shows including Today, The O'Reilly Factor, and CBS's The Talk. On New Year's Eve, journalist and former Parade Editor-in-Chief Janice Kaplan makes a promise to be grateful and look on the bright side of whatever happens. She realizes that how she feels over the next months will have less to do with the events that occur than her own attitude and perspective. Getting advice at every turn from psychologists, academics, doctors, and philosophers, she brings readers on a smart and witty journey to discover the value of appreciating what you have.
Relying on both amusing personal experiences and extensive research, Kaplan explores how gratitude can transform every aspect of life including marriage and friendship, money and ambition, and health and fitness. She learns how appreciating your spouse changes the neurons of your brain and why saying thanks helps CEOs succeed. Through extensive interviews with experts and lively conversations with real people including celebrities like Matt Damon, Daniel Craig, and Jerry Seinfeld, Kaplan discovers the role of gratitude in everything from our sense of fulfillment to our children's happiness.
With warmth, humor, and appealing insight, Janice's journey will empower readers to think positively and start living their own best year ever.
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Given that I am working on a new project about gratitude, I should have woken up on this early April morning to sunny skies, singing birds, and friends gathered in my living room singing Kumbaya.
Instead, everything that could go wrong did.
But somehow, I kept seeing rays of sunshine.
To start, my old Volvo wouldn t spark and jumper cables had no effect. The neighbor who came over to help saved the day by driving me to the train station, twenty minutes away. I got to the city and stepped onto the rainy, windy sidewalk just as a bus raced through a huge puddle and sent a thick stream of muddy water all over me.
Yuuck! I screamed, though my language might have been a bit more colorful.
A few passersby clucked in sympathy, but I didn t want to go to my important meeting looking like a survivor from a Tough Mudder race. My favorite J.Crew was just a few blocks away, so I dashed over, quickly bought a bold-print skirt, and changed in the fitting room.
I got to my meeting on time, but the CEO I had come to see had a fake tan and extremely overmoussed hair. He texted while I talked and managed to look up only at the end. Hey, you look hot in that skirt, he said.
Since I was pitching a project, not cruising Match.com, I should have been furious. But instead, I laughed and told myself I d been saved from working with a man who spent more on hair products than I did.
I went to have coffee with my best friend, Susan, whom I have known since we met in summer camp at age eight. She is intensely loyal, fiercely critical, and relentlessly blunt.
You must be miserable, she said when I outlined my day.
Not really. I m trying to be positive.
How can you be positive about a dead car?
I took a deep breath. I could do this. The car was fourteen years old and had 150,000 miles on it. I never expected it to last this long. More
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important was that I have a nice neighbor who came to help.
Yeah, that was good, Susan admitted. How about getting soaked on the sidewalk?
Look at the funny side. The idiot CEO complimented my skirt. And think how lucky I am that I could buy a new outfit without breaking the bank.
Susan dumped two packets of Splenda into her coffee and stirred furiously. For years she d heard me gripe about needing more money, so this appreciating what I had was a switch.
I m your best friend. You can bitch and complain all you want.
I don t feel like complaining, I said, surprising myself as much as her. I can t change what happened, so it feels good to change how I think about it.
Susan took a long sip of coffee. She has an ambitious, hard-driving nature. Though inordinately successful at work, Susan is often stressed, pressed, and occasionally depressed. Like all of us, she gets so busy concentrating on what she wants that she forgets to be happy for what she has. I worried my good spirits might grate on her. But she just raised an eyebrow.
If this is that gratitude stuff you ve been working on, I think I need it. How do I sign up?
It was time to share my secret. So on the top of a napkin, I wrote the heading Three Reasons I m Grateful Today. Then I pushed the napkin across the table and handed Susan a pen.
Fill it in, I said.
Susan stared at the napkin for so long that I finally took it back and crossed out Three Reasons and changed it to One Reason.
We ll start easy, I said.
That was exactly what I had done a few months earlier. I now knew that writing down one thing every day that made me grateful could change my attitude about everything else. A g
Yeah, that was good, Susan admitted. How about getting soaked on the sidewalk?
Look at the funny side. The idiot CEO complimented my skirt. And think how lucky I am that I could buy a new outfit without breaking the bank.
Susan dumped two packets of Splenda into her coffee and stirred furiously. For years she d heard me gripe about needing more money, so this appreciating what I had was a switch.
I m your best friend. You can bitch and complain all you want.
I don t feel like complaining, I said, surprising myself as much as her. I can t change what happened, so it feels good to change how I think about it.
Susan took a long sip of coffee. She has an ambitious, hard-driving nature. Though inordinately successful at work, Susan is often stressed, pressed, and occasionally depressed. Like all of us, she gets so busy concentrating on what she wants that she forgets to be happy for what she has. I worried my good spirits might grate on her. But she just raised an eyebrow.
If this is that gratitude stuff you ve been working on, I think I need it. How do I sign up?
It was time to share my secret. So on the top of a napkin, I wrote the heading Three Reasons I m Grateful Today. Then I pushed the napkin across the table and handed Susan a pen.
Fill it in, I said.
Susan stared at the napkin for so long that I finally took it back and crossed out Three Reasons and changed it to One Reason.
We ll start easy, I said.
That was exactly what I had done a few months earlier. I now knew that writing down one thing every day that made me grateful could change my attitude about everything else. A g
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Autoren-Porträt von Janice Kaplan
Janice Kaplan has enjoyed wide success as a magazine editor, television producer, writer, and journalist. The former editor in chief of Parade magazine, she is the author or coauthor of fourteen books, including the New York Times bestseller I’ll See You Again. She lives in New York City and Kent, Connecticut.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Janice Kaplan
- 2016, 336 Seiten, Maße: 13,4 x 20,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Dutton
- ISBN-10: 1101984147
- ISBN-13: 9781101984147
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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Praise for The Gratitude DiariesUplifting 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
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 Reviews
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 the #1 New York Times bestseller The Deep End of the Ocean
I recognized myself in almost every word of Janice's excellent book.
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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
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