Jane's Jam: Inspiration to Create Your Super Awesome Life

by Jane Enright

Overview

Stuff with four letters ending in a “t” happens to everyone; it’s how you handle it that matters . . .
Life puts us all through change; some might even say life is change. In the blink of an eye, the unexpected can happen. Your life can suddenly be toast—butter side down, full of icky stuff you don’t want anywhere near you. Conversely, you can also land butter side up, with wonderful opportunities you never could have imagined. 

 
The COVID-19 pandemic is a reminder to all of us that change can change its mind anytime. Now more than ever, it is important to keep perspective and remember that our life is what we create. Positive thoughts have a good effect on us. They can support us to become happier, heathier, and add value to our entire lives—especially during times of great uncertainty. Maintaining a positive mindset can attract more brightness into your life, so you can successfully navigate those curveballs out of left field and move forward, not backward, while life plays out.
Jane’s Jam is not self-help jargon; it is edutainment for the soul. Following in the footsteps of Butter Side Up: How I Survived My Most Terrible Year and Created My Super Awesome Life, this powerful, uniquely inspiring, and humorous OMG-playbook approach to overcoming adversity and living your best life will help readers look on the bright side, bounce back from the unthinkable, and intentionally create a super awesome life—no matter what the situation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781647422813
Publisher:	She Writes Press
Publication date:	11/01/2022
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	1,149,995
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jane Enright is an ordinary person who has survived some extraordinary things. An inspiring and humorous thought leader, author, and speaker, Canada-based Enright is a former kindergarten teacher, strategic planner, and university lecturer, as well as the founder of My Super Awesome Life Inc. She speaks to audiences seeking answers to overcoming a fear of the unknown, grief, stress, loss, depression, anxiety, stagnation, indecision, sadness, and more. From top executives to stay-at-home moms, she is helping audiences throughout North America land “butter side up” and find joy after unplanned change. You can find Jane on LinkedIn and Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest. For more information, visit her at www.mysuperawesomelife.com or www.janeenrightauthor.com.

Table of Contents

Prologue xv

Introduction xvii

Part 1 Where Do I Start? Begin at the Beginning (Acceptance & Creating Happiness)

Chapter 1 It Is What It Is 1

Chapter 2 Learning How to Let Go and Accept 5

Chapter 3 The Pursuit of Happiness (By the way, what time is kickoff?) 9

Chapter 4 Are We There Yet? 15

Part 2 What's Next? (Outside-in Thinking & Mindfulness)

Chapter 5 Think BIG (Picture) 25

Chapter 6 Coloring Outside the Lines 29

Chapter 7 Learning How to Surf 39

Chapter 8 Choosing Peace 43

Part 3 When You Focus on the Good in Life, Life Gets Better! (Gratitude & Kindness)

Chapter 9 Discovering the Upside with Gratitude 49

Chapter 10 Saying Thank You Even When it Is Hard To Do So 53

Chapter 11 Be Your Own Number-One Draft Pick 61

Chapter 12 Self-Care Is Not Selfish 63

Chapter 13 The Power of You! Using Your OMG™ 71

Endnotes 75

52 Weeks of Inspiration 79

Suggested Reading 95

Resources To Foster A Sense of Belonging 103

Acknowledgments 107

About the Author 111

Editorial Reviews

Jane’s My Super Awesome Life, Inc.™ platform provides a much-needed dose of inspiration and motivation to live the best life, even when it’s so hard to do so.”
—TheStylegazer.com

“Enright is a wonderfully clear-minded narrator of her own experiences. . . . The result is a stirringly believable tale of personal reinvention. An unsparing, ultimately uplifting account of turning a crisis into a new view of life.”
—Kirkus Reviews

2023 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Honorable Mention in Self-Help

“Enright’s upbeat energy comes through on every page of this book and strikes a tone that many readers will find encouraging, particularly if they’re experiencing rough times.” 

—Kirkus Reviews  

“A blueprint to navigate personal and professional setbacks, during these turbulent times. Enright explains that difficulties can be overcome by looking at life through a different lens. Numerous examples of sports figures who have transformed their lives, are an inspiring read. Some may even want to become the head coach of their own lives using Enright's strategy.”

—Library Journal

“Inspired and inspiring, Jane's Jam offers exceptional insight, motivating illustrations, and a 'real world effective' DIY instruction guide for dealing with unexpected adversity of any and all kinds.”

—Midwest Book Review

“Jane’s My Super Awesome Life, Inc.™ platform provides a much-needed dose of inspiration and motivation to live the best life, even when it’s so hard to do so.”
—TheStylegazer.com

From the Publisher

10/01/2022

This is a blueprint to navigate personal and professional setbacks, something many need during these turbulent times. The author's first book, Butter Side Up, explored hardships Enright faced during her worst year, but her latest focuses on the framework she developed to bounce back from her struggles. She calls her approach, the OMG playbook, which encourages "outside in" thinking and taking steps to practice mindfulness and gratitude. She believes difficulties, when viewed through the right lens, can become opportunities. She explains this process in 12 chapters and a summary. The "Go Routes" are activities she provides to make this easy to incorporate into daily living. She also includes 52 inspirational quotes from her previous book and additional resources, and she references motivational writers and studies that back her claims that her plan can lead to a super awesome life. VERDICT Numerous examples of sports figures, such as Terry Fox and others who have transformed their lives, are an inspiring read. Some may even want to become head coach of their own lives using Enright's strategy.—Chantal Walvoord

Library Journal

2022-09-07
A brief motivational guide to improving one’s attitude about life.

“What if,” Enright asks at the beginning of her book, “we could look at our changing circumstances and see that there is no wrong choice, and there are no mistakes, only an opportunity to discover new ways of being?” This may seem counterintuitive to many readers, as it goes against what other works of self-help literature espouse. However, Enright follows up this statement by taking readers through the value of “positive self-talk” to become “the quarterback of our life” by changing bad habits and ceasing to undermine our own hopes. To this end, she expands on some “Happiness Go Routes” that her readers may travel, such as “Laugh Out Loud” or “Create a Vision Board.” Each of the book’s short chapters opens with quotes from a famous author or celebrity, from Paulo Coelho to RuPaul (the latter of whom is quoted as saying that “Life is about using the whole box of crayons”), and contains bulleted sections that summarize key points. Her advice throughout is balanced between advice regarding resources readers may use in their communities and personal tips, such as reminders to set aside “me time” as part of one’s journey to happiness and satisfaction. Enright's upbeat energy comes through on every page of this book and strikes a tone that many readers will find encouraging, particularly if they’re experiencing rough times. However, the work is brought down by some bland, self-evident pointers (“It’s important to be true to yourself and what you value in life”) and declarations that seem overly optimistic (“when you focus on the good in your life, your life gets better”). Readers may also feel that the book’s opening assertion is questionable; there are, of course, wrong choices and mistakes in life that aren’t always simply matters of attitude adjustment. Still, despite this, readers will still be able to find some worthy self-help advice in these pages.

A brisk but ultimately slight handbook for embracing positive change.

Kirkus Reviews