Spread Thanks: Create Miracles Through the Power of Ink - Softcover

Anguita, Elena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150438881X ISBN 13: 9781504388818

Verlag: BalboaPress, 2017

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Very often, the simplest solution is the best. If you are looking to dramatically improve your life and leave a legacy of goodness to the world, let your thoughtfulness shine through. Lift your pen, and write a note of thanks. Its that easy. Spread Thanks is both a book and a movement that just takes a few minutes a day but pays you back a million times over. Within this book, youll find out how, when, where, and why this practice is so powerful. There is so much to gain! Boost your peace, love, energy, enthusiasm, and prosperityall of these are in your hands and in your handwriting. Try it today and youll soon be a believer!

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Elena Anguita is a change agent, author, and speaker who passionately supports education, literacy, and helping people learn. She lives in Pennsylvania and works as an account executive for a leading American educational products company. With many national awards to her credit, Elena enjoys using her natural enthusiasm to advance creative and philanthropic endeavors. Drawing on her unique ability to connect people and ideas in miraculous ways, she launched the Spread Thanks revolution in 2017.

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Spread Thanks

Create Miracles Through the Power of Ink

By Elena Anguita

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2017 Elena Anguita
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-5043-8881-8

Contents

Chapter 1: A Wandering Soul Gets a Big Whoosh, 1, 
Chapter 2: Putting Pen to Paper, 13, 
Chapter 3: Your Daily Routine in 3 Easy Steps, 25, 
Chapter 4: Saying Thank You Each Day, 35, 
Chapter 5: Staying Motivated and Moving Forward, 49, 
Chapter 6: Saying Thank You in Past Tense, 63, 
Chapter 7: Saying Thank You in Advance, 77, 
Chapter 8: Expect the Unexpected, 89, 
Chapter 9: The Spread Thanks Revolution, 103, 
Sample Thank You Notes, 113, 
Suggested Resources, 135, 
Acknowledgments, 137, 
About the Author, 139, 

CHAPTER 1

A Wandering Soul Gets a Big Whoosh

Living in Rome as a young girl, I was surrounded by historical treasures, beautiful scenery, and deep faith, but within my own family I didn't feel that beauty and peace. Instead there was a hopelessness that seemed to permeate our home and I felt it from my earliest awareness.

Even before I started school, I understood that our family was different and my mother was living in a perpetual state of sadness and grief. Shortly after my birth, which was in Spain, my father died leaving my mother to raise us three small girls all by herself. She couldn't understand why her God had abandoned her by taking her husband far too soon.

My mother was not from Spain so there was nothing but tragic memories there for her. She was in fact an intrepid American living abroad, so she decided to relocate our little family to her favorite city in all the world: Rome, Italy. As a young widow with three babies in tow, this was a pretty gutsy move, but then again, she was a very special woman. She chose to raise us in the Roman Catholic Church (even though her own faith was shaken) for us to be exposed to faith. But no matter what she did, she could not shake off her loneliness and despair. It was while she was in Italy that she started to wrestle with a few personal demons, namely depression and alcoholism, which persisted for most of her life.

When the beauty and tranquility of Rome could not save her, she gave up on Italy and decided to return home to America with us, while she searched for herself and a way to regain her health and strength. I had just become a teenager so this was a massive adventure for me. My stomach was in knots as the plane touched down on American soil. And where did we take up residence you may ask? Under the bright lights of New York? Enjoying the majesty of the Rocky Mountains? No. We went to the place my grandmother resided, my mother's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Open to the Possibilities

Talk about culture shock. The Colosseum in Rome one day, and coal mines the next. I was bewildered and excited with all the new experiences, but I did know one thing for certain: I had to be strong for my mother and be a good girl. So I assimilated and studied and tried to make friends. I was the model of a responsible daughter. But deep inside, I was still seeking my own place in the world, my own purpose which I knew had to be more than mastering mathematics, making meals, and saying my prayers.

I distinctly remember both the wonderment and the challenges of adjusting to our new lives. It was the same time that my own spiritual awakening was happening. I've been on a spiritual journey of my own since turning 13, open to the many possibilities the world had to offer.

I used to think that "big awakenings" would strike someone like a bolt of lightning, but for me, my perspective opened up quite organically. Even as a teenager, I would ask the big questions like, "What is my mission?" and, "There has to be a purpose to all this." And I followed my mother's path, gradually turning away from the strict dogma of the Catholic religion, as I began searching for my own answers.

On that path, however, I still accepted that life was about being good and doing good. Deep in my bones, I knew I would find a way to improve the human condition and make the world a better place. I've just kind of always known that, but who could have foreseen it would take another 40 years to really discover how to do it? But when I did, it was not long before I started to vibrate at a whole new level and I felt myself and my whole world transform. This book is about that energy shift and how simple --- yet mind-blowing --- it can be.

Along the way, like many of you perhaps, I found the most incredible books in the process. Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch was a life-changer for me because it gave me a bigger picture than I could have possibly imagined. And books like A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle stirred something deep inside and I kept seeking with a renewed hunger for my own transformational moment.

Growing Up in a Hurry

I never lost the wandering soul that I inherited from my mother. I kept searching most of my adult life, until a few years ago. And on that path, I encountered my own share of life's challenges, as we all have. Later in my life, when I worked in corporate, I came to call these challenges AFGEs (pronounced af-ghee – which is an acronym that stands for Another Freaking Growth Experience). It's when something messes up royally in your work or in your life, and you try to find a silver lining or some bigger meaning for it.

Feel free to use this term – we all have AFGEs! My first big AFGE came when I was really young and I suddenly realized that I had to grow up in a hurry. One day I was a carefree young school girl playing with friends, exploring the sandy beaches near our home in Ostia, outside of Rome, Italy. The next thing I knew, I woke up at age 13, living in a completely new country and culture, and having to care not only for myself but also the house and my mother. So many days, my mother was in such pain due to depression that she could not make meals, tidy up, or care for our needs.

Not surprisingly, this became a pattern in my life: always being the good girl, the caretaker, not rocking the boat. But in my heart I knew I was destined for something more. I just needed to be patient and my "aha" moment would miraculously appear.

So it did. It appeared, and yes, it was when I least expected it and in the last place I might have thought to look. In fact, it had to hit me twice before I really noticed it, before I realized that this might be "the thing" that I'd been waiting for.

But now for the bad news. Like so many transformational moments here on earth, mine was preceded by a colossal amount of personal and professional chaos (yes, a whole pile of AFGEs) happening in what was otherwise a pretty organized and predictable adult life up to that point. If you are currently in chaos, where you have keep dodging more crap or another "growth experience," then take heart. I suspect that you're likely just in the eye of the storm yourself, like I was, and when it clears, you too will be at peace, and moving forward with a vastly improved outlook. What a great system, right?

Facing Storms at Work

So yes, let me tell you about the storm before the calm. Here's what was going on. I'll just relate the highlights, and then we can get on to the solution.

A few years before my "aha" moment, I was just coming out of a severe situation, where I had been working for a new company, doing high level sales for them and...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BalboaPress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 150438881X
• ISBN 13: 9781504388818
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150
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