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.
