THE GRATITUDE DIARIES: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Transformed My Life

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.

frueherer Titel: THE SUNSHINE DIARIES! - THE GRATITUDE DIARIES is poised to be the trend-setting book that makes gratitude a global axiom, the next big idea in our evolving conversation about seeking to make our lives more joyful and more satisfying 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. 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. With warmth, humor, and vision, Janice's journey seeks to empower readers to start thinking positively and change their lives. Janice Kaplan has enjoyed wide success as a magazine editor, television producer, writer and journalist. As Editor-in-Chief of Parade magazine (which has the highest circulation in the US - 35 million copies a week and 72 million readers), she earned acclaim for attracting some of the country's best writers and biggest-name celebrities. Her cover stories with public figures ranging from Matt Damon to President Barack Obama drew worldwide attention. She previously served as deputy editor of TV Guide magazine and executive producer of the TV Guide Television Group, where she created and produced more than 30 television shows that aired primetime on ABC, FOX, VH1 and other networks. In addition, she was the regular book reviewer on Good Morning America until 2013.