Thankful Calendar!!

I have such exciting news!! This project has been in the works for some time now, and it was oh so not easy to keep under wraps. Now that the time has come, I am so excited to finally share it with you:

The 'Thank You' Project - meaning you, me, us - we now have our own Thankful Calendar!

Huge thanks to Stephanie of Stelie Designs for helping make it happen and for making it look oh so pretty. Our 'thank you' desk calendar features fun colorful illustrations and 'thankful' quotes by real people from all over the world, so each month reminds you to give thanks and focus on the better all the while bringing color to your day and hopefully a smile to your face. Big thanks to everyone who shared their 'thanks' with me and let me use them in TTYP projects!

As The 'Thank You' Project's tag line goes - "a 'thank you' a day keeps the worries away" - we sincerely hope that the Thankful Calendar 2012 will help you keep a thankful mindset and help keep those worries away each day of the week, each week of the month and each month of the year.

I will be posting more pics of the calendar soon, right now you can take a look and get it here. Do share the excitement with me and let me know what you think! Which month is your favorite?

P.S. Happy International Thank You Day!

Book Update: a HAPPY Collaboration

In the hopes that all of those who celebrated had a great holiday of Thanksgiving, I'm here to share some exciting thankful news and info while you all are still in the thankful spirits! And if the holiday is not celebrated in your country, you should know by now that it's never a bad day to give some thanks.

So, how about we talk some happines today? If you're not familiar with "Happy" yet, it's about time I introduce you! HAPPY is a documentary that takes us along on a journey all around the world in search of what really makes people happy. The movie uncovers the "secrets behind our most valued emotion" through a combination of interviews with the leading happiness research scientists and real life "ordinary and extraordinary people". 

Happy people behind HAPPY share my belief that gratitude plays a huge role in shaping your happier frame of mind, and I am more than happy to finally let you know that Derek Silvers, who is the transcriber and does all things publicity for the movie (and who you might already know via the Happy Blog), and Roko Belic, the HAPPY director himself, both personally contributed to the upcoming thankful book by yours truly with their thankful thoughts!

And although I can't yet share the outcome of our thankful dialogues and there's no official movie release date yet, there's something you can get your hands on almost right away - HAPPY is available for pre-order! I believe Derek can explain all things happy better, so you can read more about this limited time deal (and so much more!) here. 

Ahh, who's just as excited as I am?!.

The 'Thank You' Book

Some of you have been asking what was next for me once my year of giving public thanks daily was done... Well, you can think of this post as of an official announcement - I am writing a book on thankfulness! This new challenge of mine is to celebrate gratitude and the amazing people who followed me on my thankful journey - you! If any of you amazing people want to make a valuable book contribution here and now, do not hesitate to take a look at my thankful survey and have your say!

So yes, maybe it's too early for you to be breathing out - I hate to break it down to you, but every now and then you'll still have to deal with my thankfulness on blogger. To make you more thankful for my upcoming updates, I promise to try and keep each as short and informative as a good classic thankful post should be. Oh, and if you're wondering what's that I'm thankful for today, it's my newly found internet independence! What a luxury is it to come home after work and boycott my laptop for as long as I want, because I can! Yes, I can!