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Summary: A winner!
Review: I don't usually like self-help books, as anyone perusing my other reviews will know. But this one is different -- it offers an easy path for personal transformation, and lays out pages attractive so all you have to do -- all! -- is write five things for which you are grateful, one each on five little lines, each day. Author even gives you several pages of hints for when your own "gratitude pump" runs dry. This quote is variously attributed to Meister Eckhart or Mother Theresa, but the words ring true 100% when applied to the use of this Gratitude Journal: "If the only prayer you ever say is 'thank you', that will be sufficient." Give this book a try -- but WARNING -- regular use may change your life.
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Summary: A winner!
Review: I don't usually like self-help books, as anyone perusing my other reviews will know. But this one is different -- it offers an easy path for personal transformation, and lays out pages attractive so all you have to do -- all! -- is write five things for which you are grateful, one each on five little lines, each day. Author even gives you several pages of hints for when your own "gratitude pump" runs dry. This quote is variously attributed to Meister Eckhart or Mother Theresa, but the words ring true 100% when applied to the use of this Gratitude Journal: "If the only prayer you ever say is 'thank you', that will be sufficient." Give this book a try -- but WARNING -- regular use may change your life.
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Summary: A wonderfully beautiful book
Review: I really love this beautiful book. It has a simple country-styled design with just a few lines to jot down or sketch your feelings of gratitude, but you know something, I found all the space I needed because for me, even a single word fills my heart with memories of love and that's where I think gratitude really lives. This is a fun book and a neat tool of self-expression and self-awareness. For me, and I imagine for you too, the book gently guides one deep within to our own smiling soul. I love the books soft color and gentle designs and I guess that's one of the reasons why it's fun to carry around in my crazy-quilt purse, ready to be pulled out beneath a lazy willow or on the banks of a bubbling creek. The more I use the book, the more it's magic speaks to me.Lily of the Valley Carnie, author - Chi Gung: Chinese Healing, Energy, and Natural Magick
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Summary: Great for beginners but serious journalers need more lines!
Review: I simply love Sarah Ban Breathnach's Simple Abundance. And yes, the gratitude journal is a life changing experience. I would recommend it for anyone. This book is also nice if you can sum up your daily gratitude in a few words. I have a few friends who feel 5 lines for 5 daily seeds of gratitude is sufficient. However, if you are like me and enjoy journaling. If your 5 items that you are grateful for turns in to 7, 10, even 20 items each day (believe me, once you get into the habit of the gratitude journal, you will become grateful for everything) -- then you need to purchase another journal. I would recommend buying this book for the inspiration, but buy a beautiful blank journal later as your gratitude grows!
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Summary: Great for beginners but serious journalers need more lines!
Review: I simply love Sarah Ban Breathnach's Simple Abundance. And yes, the gratitude journal is a life changing experience. I would recommend it for anyone. This book is also nice if you can sum up your daily gratitude in a few words. I have a few friends who feel 5 lines for 5 daily seeds of gratitude is sufficient. However, if you are like me and enjoy journaling. If your 5 items that you are grateful for turns in to 7, 10, even 20 items each day (believe me, once you get into the habit of the gratitude journal, you will become grateful for everything) -- then you need to purchase another journal. I would recommend buying this book for the inspiration, but buy a beautiful blank journal later as your gratitude grows!
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Summary: A NICE JOURNAL , BUT NOT MUCH WRITING SPACE.
Review: If the intent of this journal was to record our blessings each day, then one would need to do some brief hand-scratching to record them in the extremely limited space provided. Perhaps it is based on my beliefs in Buddhist Philosophies, but I very much like the idea of giving thanks for five blessings we have received each day. Quite often though, I find myself often giving thanks for the same things over and over again: the love of my husband, good health, the beauty of nature, the joy of humanity and the peaceful nation in which I live. These precious gifts could be broken down further but the scanty amount of space does not leave much room for any lengthy thoughts. One really does have to do an abbreviated version, and that is the one major downfall of the book. For those who like to write with eloquent periphrastic flair, they will probably find the writing space on these pages is far from adequate.
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Summary: For your Gratitude Journal, not your everyday journalling...
Review: The Journal of Gratitude is developed specifically for that purpose - the exercise of writing down 5 things each day for which you are grateful. It contains some nice quotes and thought provoking sayings that you may enjoy as well. But if you are considering purchasing or giving this as a gift to someone who wants to keep a daily journal, you will not find enough space. As Career Planning and Development Host at BellaOnline, I like to do a lot of writing - and I do need more space. But my Gratitude Journal is something special, and I like to have someplace special to do it - what better place than one where I can get a bit of a motivational quote at the same time to help me end my day in peaceful thought. If you want to purchase a beautiful journal for your own gratitude book, you can go and select one from any bookstore out there, but be prepared to spend the same amount or more than you will pay for this one - the companion to the Book - Simple Abundance - which launched this wonderful project in the first place. If we all took the time to be grateful for some simple things each day, how much happier could we be? Try it and find out...
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Summary: Be grateful!
Review: This book is a gentle reminder that no matter how bad your day was, you can find at least 5 things to be grateful for. A Guide to the Scriptures is another book to read and realize just how blessed you are.
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Summary: BLANK BOOK
Review: THIS BOOK IS NOT WORTH GETTING. IT'S JUST A BLANK BOOK [...] YOU CAN WRITE AJOURNAL IN ANY BOOK ESPECIALLY A RINGED NOTEBOOK WHICH IS CHEAPER AND BETTER. YOU CAN STILL TAKE THE ADVICE (NOT ORIGINALLY HERS, WRITING JOURNAL AND WRITING 5 THINGS YOU ARE GREATFUL FOR) JUST DON'T WRITE IT IN THE BOOK THEY SELL YOU BECAUSE THEY HARDLY GIVE YOU ANY SPACE.
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Summary: The best gift I have ever received
Review: This book was a gift from a very dear friend. When I got it I didn't truly "get it", or it's purpose, but then I read the author's words in the beginning, and started to enter in it daily, and I realized the true power of saying "thanks." Breathnach accentuates the journal with amazing, often simplistic quotes which both move and inspire you. To those who say that this is merely a blank-paged journal, I must agree. However, how many of us can say that we actually DO write down 5, 6, or even 1 thing a day to which we say thanks? Plain and simple, this is a beautiful, often inspirational way to offer a very simple, yet powerful note to the universe: thank you. Those who follow the course of this journal throughout one year will realize how simplistic, yet amazing giving thanks is. Recounting your journey throughout the past year and seeing how your perceptions and values have molded around gratitude is a truly invaluable way to learn, and grow in life. Get this book - but more importantly, give it to a dear friend or loved one.
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