On November 11, 2013, a jobless forty-year-old wrote three sentences in a notebook. They changed everything.
"I'm grateful that I'm alive. I'm grateful for my family. I'm grateful for the cup of coffee I had on the beach."
That's how Marc Reklau's first gratitude journal begins — written while unemployed, living off savings, with no idea what came next. Sixteen months later, on March 31, 2015, his first book was downloaded nearly 40,000 times in a matter of days.
Today his books have sold over 1,000,000 copies. Ask him for the single biggest factor behind that transformation, and his answer is one word: gratitude.
Sound too simple? That's the point. Gratitude is considered the single most impactful intervention in all of positive psychology — scientifically linked to being happier, sleeping better, and reducing anxiety, anger, and even headaches.
Here's why it works: you cannot be grateful and angry at the same time. You cannot be grateful and worried at the same time. It's the best antidote to every negative emotion — and it costs you five minutes a day.
In this simple book, you'll learn seven exercises to put gratitude to work, including:
...and much more.
If gratitude came in pill form, it would fly off the shelves. It doesn't. You still have to do a little work. Five minutes a day should do it.
The more grateful you become, the better your life will get. Start tonight.