After a particularly bad 2007, lawyer John Kralik decided to start 2008 with a serious New Year’s resolution: to be thankful for the good things and people in his life. So he spent the next year writing one thank you note for each day — to family, friends, co-workers, even the barista at his local Starbucks. Those notes make up his new book, 365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life
Why not just say thanks? Kralik tells NPR’s Liane Hansen that it was his grandfather who fostered his interest in written gratitude at an early age.
“My grandfather, whenever you sent him a thank you note, he would always send you a silver dollar,” Kralik explains. “And then if you wrote him a thank you for the silver dollar, he’d send you another.”
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