Choosing Gratitude: Learning to Love the Life You Have

Choosing Gratitude: Learning to Love the Life You Have
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In his latest book, Choosing Gratitude: Learning to Love the Life You Have, renowned author James A. Autry reminds us that gratitude is a choice, a spiritualâ€”not socialâ€”process. Made evident as behavior, gratitude is not the behavior itself. We may automatically respond, â€œThank youâ€ or â€œAppreciate itâ€ in the daily course of our lives. These are polite, conditioned responses, but they are not gratitude. Instead, gratitude is a way of life, a belief system, that means cultivating a spirit of thankfulness even through the negatives of life. It is remembering there will always be more reasons for gratitude than for despair. In a society consumed by fears of not having â€œenoughâ€â€”money, possessions, security, and so onâ€”Autry suggests that if we cultivate gratitude as a way of being, we may not change the world and its ills, but we can change our response to the world. If we fill our lives with moments of gratitude, we will indeed love the life we have. James A. Autry, a former Fortune 500 executive, is an author, poet, and consultant whose work has had significant influence on leadership thinking. He is the author of ten books, and his writings have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Featured in Bill Moyersâ€™ PBS series The Power of the Word and in Moyersâ€™ book The Language of Life, Autry has also been noted on National Public Radio via Garrisonâ€™s Keillorâ€™s â€œWriterâ€™s Corner.â€ He serves on the national advisory board of Poets & Writers, Inc. Autry resides in Des Moines, Iowa, with his wife, Sally Pederson, who recently retired as Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, and their twenty-seven-year-old son. He has two grown sons by a previous marriage and is a proud grandfather of two.
Country USA
Brand Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
Manufacturer Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781573126144
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
Manufacturer	Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781573126144
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Choosing Gratitude: Learning to Love the Life You Have

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