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I received this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways. As always, an honest review.
Gratitude Miracles: The Journal That Could Change Everything! is a combination workbook and journal to fill with gratitudes from your life. The setup of this workbook is the following: each day you write 3-5 sentences about one thing you are grateful for. There are prompts to get you started and each month has a theme. I liked the concept of writing about one gratitude per day instead of only making long gratitude lists. I found it helpful to dive a little deeper into each gratitude. This helped me to learn a few new things about myself and appreciate each gratitude more. The daily gratitudes are also quick; they didn’t take more than 2-3 minutes. The weekly activities correspond with that week’s daily gratitudes and helped me to notice themes, miracles, and things I need to work on. It was a great way to reflect on and summarize my week. Each month has a different theme, for example happiness, health, etc. This is where the journaling comes in. At the beginning and end of each month you journal about that specific month’s theme. What it means to you, what you hope to get out of it, the lessons you learned, etc. I liked that these were a great way to frame each month and reflect on myself. The time between each of these longer journals was just right. Frequent enough that it kept me connected to myself and my gratitudes, but infrequent enough that this more time consuming journaling didn’t take too much time out of my day. The setup of this gratitude journal kept me accountable. Many times before I would try to keep a gratitude list on my own, but wouldn’t stick with it for more than a few days. This book gives me a concrete place to think, write, and explore what I am grateful for. As much as I love this gratitude journal, I do have a few criticisms. I wish there was more room to write my daily gratitudes. I found myself cutting these short at times due to lack of space. Maybe that’s just me wanting to write half a page or more per day instead of a shorter amount. I also wish there was about 10% more explanation. I figured out how to best fill in the workbook, but it wasn’t as straight forward as I had hoped. I liked that the author did some research, shown at the beginning of this book, about what makes gratitude journaling most effective. Overall I am enjoying Gratitude Miracles. It keeps me accountable to gratitude journaling, has great prompts, adequate guidance, and frames this process so that I get the most out of it.
I’ve just started the third week of gratitude journaling. The book takes us through a year of gratitudes. I will probably add to this review in a month or two, when I’ve been able to work through more of it, to give a more complete opinion of this journal. So far I’m really enjoying the book and the process of using it.
Update: I've just started on the third month of this gratitude journal. I'm using it every day and still enjoying the process. I still stand by everything I wrote at the beginning of using this journal. I've discovered that some months are more applicable to me than others, depending on what I need to work on at that time.
Gratitude Miracles: The Journal That Could Change Everything! is a combination workbook and journal to fill with gratitudes from your life. The setup of this workbook is the following: each day you write 3-5 sentences about one thing you are grateful for. There are prompts to get you started and each month has a theme. I liked the concept of writing about one gratitude per day instead of only making long gratitude lists. I found it helpful to dive a little deeper into each gratitude. This helped me to learn a few new things about myself and appreciate each gratitude more. The daily gratitudes are also quick; they didn’t take more than 2-3 minutes. The weekly activities correspond with that week’s daily gratitudes and helped me to notice themes, miracles, and things I need to work on. It was a great way to reflect on and summarize my week. Each month has a different theme, for example happiness, health, etc. This is where the journaling comes in. At the beginning and end of each month you journal about that specific month’s theme. What it means to you, what you hope to get out of it, the lessons you learned, etc. I liked that these were a great way to frame each month and reflect on myself. The time between each of these longer journals was just right. Frequent enough that it kept me connected to myself and my gratitudes, but infrequent enough that this more time consuming journaling didn’t take too much time out of my day. The setup of this gratitude journal kept me accountable. Many times before I would try to keep a gratitude list on my own, but wouldn’t stick with it for more than a few days. This book gives me a concrete place to think, write, and explore what I am grateful for. As much as I love this gratitude journal, I do have a few criticisms. I wish there was more room to write my daily gratitudes. I found myself cutting these short at times due to lack of space. Maybe that’s just me wanting to write half a page or more per day instead of a shorter amount. I also wish there was about 10% more explanation. I figured out how to best fill in the workbook, but it wasn’t as straight forward as I had hoped. I liked that the author did some research, shown at the beginning of this book, about what makes gratitude journaling most effective. Overall I am enjoying Gratitude Miracles. It keeps me accountable to gratitude journaling, has great prompts, adequate guidance, and frames this process so that I get the most out of it.
I’ve just started the third week of gratitude journaling. The book takes us through a year of gratitudes. I will probably add to this review in a month or two, when I’ve been able to work through more of it, to give a more complete opinion of this journal. So far I’m really enjoying the book and the process of using it.
Update: I've just started on the third month of this gratitude journal. I'm using it every day and still enjoying the process. I still stand by everything I wrote at the beginning of using this journal. I've discovered that some months are more applicable to me than others, depending on what I need to work on at that time.