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Mara Linde
A Year of Small Good Things by Mara Linde, shown as a paperback standing at an angle
A whole year

A Year of Small Good Things

One line a day, one page a week, for a whole year

Seven lines a week. That is the entire commitment.

  • One page a week, seven lines
  • A different question every single week
  • Seasonal and monthly read-backs
  • The ten you would keep, at the end of the year
  • Undated: start in any week
$12.99 Paperback on Amazon
Format
Paperback, undated
Size
6 x 9 inches (152 x 229 mm)
Language
English
Shelved under
Happiness, Journal Writing
A Year of Small Good Things lying open on a table, showing a spread of the pages you fill in
What a spread looks like once the book is open.
About this journal

Most gratitude journals are abandoned in March. This one asks for seven lines a week.

One page a week for fifty-two weeks. Seven numbered lines, one for each day, and a different question at the top of every page. Fill one in each evening or do the week on Sunday. Both count.

What is inside

  • 52 weekly pages, seven lines each
  • A different prompt every week, no repeats: something that made the week easier, a person who was kind without making a thing of it, a rest you actually took
  • Four seasons, each with its own opening page and read-back
  • A monthly page that asks who keeps appearing and what costs nothing
  • A year-end page: the ten you would keep
  • Undated, so you can start in any week of any year

Why weekly works

  • A page a day becomes a chore by February
  • Four words is a complete entry
  • A thin week with two lines is still a week you kept

A gift for Christmas, a birthday or the first of January, for anyone who has started a gratitude journal before and not finished one.

From the back cover

Most gratitude journals ask for a page a day and are abandoned in March. This one gives you one page a week with seven short lines on it, one for each day, and a different question at the top every week.

Fifty-two weeks, four seasons and a read-back page at the end of each, so by December you are holding a year of things you would otherwise have forgotten by Friday.

Undated. Start in any week of any year.

A Year of Small Good Things

Seven lines a week. That is the entire commitment. $12.99, paperback.

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