When you make gratitude a habit, every day comes bearing gifts. Count your blessings and change your life! Gratitude helps people focus on what they have instead of what’s missing. The wonderful thing about counting your blessings and practicing gratitude is that you don’t have to be born with that tendency; you can learn how to be a thankful person and enjoy all the emotional benefits of gratitude. It only takes a little practice to make it a regular part of your outlook—a daily habit. Learn how to use the power of gratitude as you read these revealing true stories. You’ll be inspired to: Find silver linings in adversity Approach each day with a positive attitude Learn to live in the moment Experience the joy of giving Get back to basics Find joy in friends and family Recognize those everyday miracles Have faith Say thanks and pay it forward

The power of gratitude can change your life! In this collection of 101 inspiring stories, people just like you share how they turned their lives around by seeing the silver linings, counting their blessings, and changing their perspective. Get inspired to become a thankful person! Scientific research has proven that being thankful improves your health, your cognitive function and your relationships. And you can learn to be a thankful person! Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Gratitude is full of true, inspiring stories by people who have changed their lives for the better by actively practicing gratitude, by saying thanks, and by stopping and thinking about their blessings, even on a bad day.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Count Your Blessings will inspire and uplift readers with its stories of optimism, faith, and strength. In bad times, and good, readers will be heartened to find something good in each day. A great Christmas gift and start to the New Year. What are you thankful for today? This uplifting book reminds readers of the blessings in their lives, despite financial stress, natural disasters, health scares and illnesses, housing challenges and family worries. Stories of optimism, faith, and strength remind us of the simple pleasures of family, home, health, and inexpensive good times.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Best Mom Ever! is full of loving and entertaining anecdotes by grateful children, all in praise of the woman who encourages them, supports them, and most importantly, loves them. These stories will brighten any mother’s day, and show her that the kids were paying attention after all.

A mother’s job is never done, but in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks to My Mom, she gets the praise she deserves! Children of all ages share their words of thanks in these 101 stories of love, learning, and gratitude to the woman they couldn’t have done without! This new collection is filled with heartwarming and entertaining anecdotes by grateful children, all in praise of the woman who encourages them, supports them, and most importantly, loves them. These stories will brighten any mother’s day, and show her that the kids were paying attention after all.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive will inspire and uplift readers with its stories of optimism, faith, and strength. In bad times, and good, readers will be heartened to keep a positive attitude. A great start to the New Year. Every cloud has a silver lining. And the stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive will encourage readers to stay positive, because there is always a bright side. This book continues Chicken Soup for the Soul’s focus on inspiration and hope, reminding us that each day holds something to be thankful for.

Now more than ever, our teenagers need to be reminded of all that is good in their lives. These 101 true stories of teens for teens serve as that reminder, and will leave them feeling better about their present, and their future. In Chicken Soup for the Soul: Attitude of Gratitude for Teenagers, teenage readers will learn how gratitude, even in the most challenging situations, can change their lives for the better. These 101 real-life stories show teens how to see their lives from a new perspective: through a lens of gratitude. These stories of thankfulness, mindfulness, appreciation for family and friends, doing the right thing, resilience, making best efforts, and doing good deeds for others are sure to encourage the good values and behavior that we wish for them. Teenagers will feel less alone and more empowered as they read about other teens who have faced the same ups and downs in their own lives. Chicken Soup for the Soul books are 100% made in the USA and each book includes stories from as diverse a group of writers as possible. Chicken Soup for the Soul solicits and publishes stories from the LGBTQ community and from people of all ethnicities, nationalities, and religions.