I’m so excited to share that our book, Goodness Abounds: 365 True Stories of Loving Kindness, comes out today! It’s the fourth book in our bestselling 365 Book Series, collaborative books that my husband, Dan Teck, and I publish that feature hundreds of authors sharing from their hearts. Over 275 co-authors from all over the world came together to share a moment of goodness that they either experienced or witnessed firsthand with the hopes of proving once and for all that goodness really does abound in our world.

This book came about because I was feeling overwhelmed by all of the negativity and divisiveness in the news and on social media, especially after the 2016 election here in the United States. Scrolling through our Facebook feed was no longer enjoyable due to one contentious post or news story after another. Dan and I were angry and disheartened, and we found ourselves sinking lower and lower into a pit of powerlessness and despair. We began questioning everything we thought we knew about the inherent kindness in people and wondered what had happened to the light-filled, loving universe we thought we lived in.

Our first inclination was to bury our heads in the sand and come up only when the world seemed sane and peaceful again. But something deep inside our soul whispered that loving kindness was still out there, that the majority of people still had huge hearts and were still making a positive impact in our world, and that it was up to us to turn on our “goodness radar” to find it.

Being on the lookout for goodness felt empowering to us – we liked having something to focus on that made us feel good instead of bad. So we started thinking about our lives – starting with the present and working all the way back to childhood – looking for evidence of goodness that we had experienced from both strangers and loved ones. We wanted to remember all of the moments – the big ones and also the small ones. We wanted to surround ourselves with all of these happy and life-affirming memories because we knew that they would help us have more faith in humankind again. And it worked. We began feeling more hopeful, and the cloud of darkness that had been surrounding us seemed to lift a little bit. We could see a glimmer of light again.

We were so excited to be feeling hopeful again, and we wanted to invite others to join us in finding, focusing on, and celebrating goodness in their own lives, too. We knew that many others were still feeling disheartened and powerless, so we thought that it would be wonderfully uplifting if hundreds of us came together to share our stories of goodness in one book so we could all fill our hearts with the knowing that no matter how bleak things looked, people were still so helpful and giving. As the stories began pouring in, each one we read renewed our faith in humanity and opened our hearts just a bit more. While reading them, we cried tears of joy as we were reminded of just how giving and kind people truly can be.

Some of the stories tell of life-changing moments that you never forget, such as when an entire community came together to help someone in need or when someone was given a helping hand that changed the trajectory of their life. We also read many stories that shared quieter moments of kindness – moments that aren’t always as easy to remember because they may not be as flashy as the bigger moments, but moments that can be just as powerful. These moments, when added up, become the fabric of our lives: a smile from a stranger, a helpful hand from a neighbor, a kind comment from a teacher, a hug when it is most needed, a caring note from a co-worker, a random act of kindness from someone you’ll never see again, or an “I love you” that stays in your heart forever.

We’re so happy that we get to share all of these moments with you – the entire range of goodness – to help show how prevalent loving kindness truly is in our lives, in our communities, and in our world. It’s everywhere. And that makes me very, very happy.

Our experiment worked. Goodness does abound. We just have to open our eyes and hearts to it – to turn our “goodness radar” on and look for it. It’s there. I promise. And this book shows how widespread it truly is! 

I hope you’ll order the book for yourself and for your friends and family – it will make such a great holiday gift! I hope you’ll give yourself this gift of feeling uplifted and hopeful. And I hope you, too, will find that goodness truly is everywhere!

Over 60 Free Gifts!

 

For a limited time, everyone who orders the book will receive our bonus gift package, which includes over 60 soulful gifts (meditations, ebooks, ecourses, and more) – all contributed by the co-authors!

Please click here to learn more about it and order it today!

 

 

 

Come to Our Online Party Today!

 

We’re hosting a launch party on Facebook today from 10 am – 4 pm pst, and we would love for you to join us!

We’ll be giving away tons of amazing prizes, chatting with many of the co-authors, sharing book excerpts, and celebrating with everyone! It’s happening from 10 am-4 pm pst. You can pop in and out throughout the day – we’ll have new prizes to give away every 30 minutes! Be sure to invite your friends, too! The more the merrier!

Here is the link to join us: https://www.facebook.com/events/247990099038709/

 

Thank you for celebrating this special moment with each of us who wrote from our hearts in this book. We are so grateful to share such a profound book with you, and we hope that it uplifts each and every person who reads it!

Hugs,

jodi

P. S. – We’ve put together a blog tour where many of the contributing authors will be sharing about our book over the next month! Be sure to click here each day to check out all of the blogs – you’ll find excerpts from our book, giveaways, interviews with the authors, and more!

P.P.S. – I hope you’ll order our book today and come to the Facebook party! We’re giving away over $5,000 in door prizes, and it’s going to be so much fun! Please click here to join us at the party.

 

 

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