Everyday Gratitude: Inspiration for Living Life as a Gift

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A beautifully designed gift book featuring a curated collection of inspiring quotes, thought-provoking reflections, and accessible practices from A Network for Grateful Living, a global community one million strong, dedicated to helping others discover that happiness is rooted in gratitude for daily life. Small, grateful acts each day can uplift, make a difference, and help change the world. Everyday Gratitude offers a collection of inspirational quotes, original reflections, and daily practices that bring awareness to the abundance of things to be grateful for in ordinary daily life. Curated and compiled by A Network for Grateful Living - which encompasses a global community one million strong - this beautifully designed collection expresses their desire to help others discover that the roots of happiness lie in gratefulness. Hand-lettered art and a thoughtfully designed package with an attached ribbon bookmark make this book the perfect gift for anyone who practices yoga, meditation, or mindfulness, or anyone who needs an encouraging reminder of life's gifts. AUTHOR: A Network for Grateful Living is a global organisation offering online and community-based educational programs and practices that inspire and guide a commitment to grateful living and catalyse the transformative power of personal and societal responsibility. They can be found online at gratefulness.org. SELLING POINTS: . An inspirational gift book that awakens gratefulness in daily life. With hand-lettered art, a ribbon bookmark, and each page lovingly designed to feature a unique look with an inspiring quote and original reflection, the book format itself resounds with thoughtfulness and gratitude. . An accessible, non-sectarian approach that will resonate with the growing mainstream yoga/meditation/ mindfulness community. With scientific findings and cultural experience both touting the benefits of being grateful for everyday moments and experiences, this broad and inclusive approach will appeal to many segments of the yoga and mindfulness community, personal growth enthusiasts, and members of interfaith spiritual and religious groups. . A Network for Grateful Living has a strong, worldwide platform. Founded by Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk with a popular TED Talk titled "Want to Be Happy Be Grateful" (5.7 million views), A Network for Grateful Living's website, Gratefulness.org, has one million unique visitors annually and 50,000 subscribers to their Word for the Day emails. Full-colour; illustrations throughout; includes ribbon bookmark

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"Any book that reminds us that life is a gift, is a gift in itself. This book is a true gift." -- Jack Kornfield, best-selling author of No Time like the Present and A Path with Heart

"Everyday Gratitude overflows with an abundance of blessings for all of us." -- Lynne Twist, best-selling author of The Soul of Money

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A Network for Grateful Living is a global, nonprofit organization offering online and community-based educational programs and practices that inspire and guide a commitment to grateful living, and catalyze the transformative power of personal and societal responsibility. Based in Hadley, Massachusetts, they are the force behind the best-selling Everyday Gratitude and Everyday Gratitude Frame-Ups.
Kristi Nelson is the author of Wake Up Grateful and the executive director of A Network for Grateful Living. She has a master's degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and has spent more than 30 years in nonprofit leadership, development, and consulting. She has worked at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and the Soul of Money Institute. Nelson is a Stage IV cancer survivor who cherishes living among friends and family in western Massachusetts.
As a scholar, writer, and social activist, Brother David Steindl-Rast has shared messages of peace, interfaith dialogue, social justice, and environmental stewardship worldwide for more than 50 years in spoken and written word that is both thoughtful and occasionally infused with beauty, wonderment, and wit. His TEDtalk Want to Be Happy Be Grateful has garnered over 5 million views and thousands of people a day tap into the interactive online community he co-founded, A Network for Grateful Living, for information and guidance on the transformative power of gratefulness as a mindfulness practice.