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

by Jane Enright

Overview

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

A 2023 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize finalist, Jane's Jam leads readers through a fresh, thought-provoking playbook approach to creating new beginnings after seeming endings—finding good during and after handling unexpected change. Packed with timely, uplifting, practical strategies for overcoming obstacles in our lives and increasing outside-in thinking, mindfulness, and gratitude, Jane's Jam can help you develop a healthy mindset, respond more positively to and thrive during unwanted change, and inspire choices that create joy, happiness, and the super awesome life you deserve!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781647422813
Publisher:	She Writes Press
Publication date:	11/01/2022
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

In 2017 Jane Enright suffered an unforeseen traumatic brain injury that left her almost speechless. Today she is an inspiring award-winning Canadian author, wellness expert, and inspirational speaker. Her transformational, food-for-the-soul journey has been described as extraordinary and moving. Jane is the winner of the 2022 Canadian Book Club Award (in categories Best Book, Spiritual, and Health & Wellness) and a silver medalist in the 2022 Living Now Evergreen Book Awards to commemorate world-changing books published in this new millennium for her compelling, uplifting memoir entitled Butter Side Up: How I Survived My Most Terrible Year & Created My Super Awesome Life. Jane is also the author of the acclaimed wellness playbook Jane’s Jam: Inspiration To Create Your Super Awesome Life, shortlisted for the 2023 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize for salient writing. Jane is helping international audiences find peace and create joy and happiness through her partnerships and her inspirational writing and speaking. For more details, visit 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

2023 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Honorable Mention in Self-Help
2022 Winner of the Canadian Book Club Award for Best Book, Health & Wellness/Spiritual
2022 Living Now Book Award, The Evergreen Medal, for a world-changing book on Health & Wellness
2021 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist

 “Inspired and inspiring, Jane’s Jam offers exceptional insights, 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 Jam is a reminder that we can reimagine what could be, live differently, and experience better than we could ever imagine!”
—Jane Ubell Meyer, founder of Bedside Reading

“Jane’s Jam takes a practical and positive approach to giving us all tangible ways to overcome obstacles we face in our own lives. Jan’s Jam shines a sweet ray of hope, showing a path to a better life.”
—Deke Copenhaver, TEDX speaker and author of The Change Maker: The Art of Building Better Leaders

 “Jane’s Jam creates a uniquely inspiring and humorous approach to overcoming adversity and living your best life to help readers look on the bright side-no matter what the situation!”
—THEHIVEARY.COM

“Jane’s Jam can help any reader contend with unexpected change and find light on the other side.”
—Kelley Holland, author of You Are Worthy

“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.”
—Library Journal

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