What a wonderful little book full of simple ideas that can be easily implemented to live generously in many ways.

This is a cute book with, as the title states, 365 ways to live generously. I liked the idea of taking one thing a day to be more grateful and generous with my life. It's easy to read, I would read it in order, but you could always skip around to the various generosity challenges. I liked that it talks about building habits and also about self care. If you can't take care of yourself, you can't really help anyone else. This is a book that I bought a hard copy of as I belief I will reread it regularly. We all need reminders sometimes to take time for ourselves and to build good habits.

What an absolutely fantastic book, and one that I have actually purchased to add to my permanent bookshelf.

365 Ways to Live Generously: Simple Habits for a Life That's Good for You and for Others Kindle Edition by Sharon Lipinski

This is a great book packed full of practical, useable ideas to live a fuller, happier, more generous life, with as much emphasis on generosity towards yourself as to others. Being generous isn’t about giving away money and gifts however, it’s about taking care of yourself both physically and mentally, living life mindfully, reflecting on behaviours and boundaries in your relationships with others, and accepting people for who they are, and much, much more.

I bullet journal regularly, and this book is a perfect companion for me to not only look at the practical organisation of my day and manage my tasks and priorities, but also to bring in self-reflection and development as a person. I’m excited at the thought!

My only thought is that the daily reflections contain some pretty big ideas, ideas that I feel might take more than one day to reflect upon and develop, so I will adapt accordingly.

An easy four out of five stars.

A great concept for a book, containing practical advice that is accessible and can be implemented by any one of us in our day-to-day lives. For readers looking to improve their habits and better appreciate the world around us, this is an indispensable guide.

This book was a great reminder that it's very easy to live generously without breaking the bank.

I liked this. Not only for the simple self-improvement reminders about health, diet, meditation etc, and daily quotations, but as it says in the title 'live generously'. In this day of the endless selfie and self-absorption that seems to possess many, it is surely a good thing to have reminders about sharing and thinking about others perhaps less fortunate than ourselves. The author says we need a journal to go along with this, and although some may see this as an unnecessary addition to the book, I think it helps this kind of process to get your thoughts on paper. I will continue this day by day, and look forward to a better and more generous me at the end of it!

Review of an advance digital copy from the publisher.

Thank you for this book. I think it probably works better in the paper format than electronic. There is no way to navigate on the kindle - you can't go to the day you want to if you miss a day, you just have to go page by page - and it just doesn't work well for me in that format. I also think that I am too practical for the mindfulness activities like experiencing raisins in different ways. Thank you for the book and good luck with it. I will not post a review since I did not read it all.

The idea of this book is great and I enjoyed some of the different ideas/activities the author gives the reader pertaining to philanthropy, gratitude, and relationships. The book is centered around journaling activities and there is a different activity for each day. Most of this was overwhelming to me and I don't see myself being able to keep up with something like this. I'm sure if could be useful to someone else though.

I received a copy via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this book SO MUCH. It filled me with a lot of idea about what I can do to being more positivity into my life, my family, friends, coworkers. Steps I can take to feel more at peace, active and content in my own life. I am so thankful for the chance to pretend this.

Sharon Lipinski has written a wonderful book about the seven generosity habits.(Physical health, mindfulness, relationships, connecting with yourself, gratitude, simplicity and philanthropy) Each day of the week covers a different topic and each week builds off the previous weeks. The daily tasks are very easy to complete and don't require a lot of time. I plan to go back through the book day by day and do each item.

This book is great if you want to learn or get ideas on how you can show your generosity without money!
I personally thing that generosity is way more then donating some of your hard earned money, but rather it is something that you can do in other relevant, simple, daily and still very thoughtful ways.

And this book really offers some great suggestions to live a more generous life, not only towards others but also towards yourself!
Which i think is fantastic, because how many of us forget to be generous to ourselves? So how wonderful is it that there are also a few things in this book specifically targeted to learning/being more generous with our own selfs and not "just" towards other people!

As i already said, i really loved that this book is not focused on how you can spend money, but rather where and how you can volunteer time and energy.


The only thing that i really didn't like that much, was that the author constantly talks about writing in a journal or writing down your personal experiences of each of those daily habits.
Its lovely to have "practice" options, but if i am told ever time i get an idea how to be more generous to write it down, compare what i do know to what i want to do and all that? After a few weeks i start to feel a bit of pressure. Which i know is a personal thing.
But i wanted to point out that this book is structured in a way that after every daily habit or idea for the day, the author tells the read to go "practice" as she calls it, and by that she always wants the read to do something with a journal and writing something down.

So if the tis something you really don't like? Or never do? Might not be the best book for you, if you can't just over-read that.

Other then that little thing?
I can only recommend this book. It might not give you 365 ideas, but it certainly will give you a huge amount of new ideas that you might have not thought about without this book!

365 Ways to Live Generously Simple Habits for a Life That's Good for You and for Others by Sharon Lipinski will be released this January 8th by Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
It's the story of a lady plenty of success born in a family with a mom very generous with everyone.Her mom, tells Sharon helped everyone in every possible ways and necessities, while the author grew up pretty selfish and without any kind of compassion for other human being.
Sharon doesn't know the reason why from a mom such generous she became at least someone so closed with other people. Maybe it was because of work, maybe it was because absorbed by a full-time job with zero private life and plenty of responsibilities. Sharon started to get up during the night with frequent panic attacks. Responsibilities, pressure was very high, she couldn't cope anymore with all of it: living in a system like that one, constantly under pressure and she decided to resign starting a more spiritual and real trip along the USA.

Once she met a man abandoned to himself with a very sad story behind. That man wouldn't have been invited tells he author to spend any minute at the house where he previously lived in with his dear ones, he was considered a sort of failure from his dear ones, and so Sharon invited this man for the Thanksgiving dinner in the closest place they would have found, and there she discovered what it meant to go out with a stranger that it is not anymore a stranger but a friend and someone with which you are able to establish a great and good connection thanks to his human story that it is after all also your human history because each of us is in this world for a certain purpose.
Not only: Sharon discovered how a little gesture of generosity like spending some time with a stranger since at few minutes before could mean the world to him.

The book is very captivating, because after this experience Sharon learned what it means to be generous with other people and now she wants to give to all of us the opportunity to change our mind, our body for becoming best people and for becoming great new generous helpers in this world.

Create your Best Life thought Generosity one of her motto.

I found the story touching and the entire book stimulating.
Change is possible just we must want it.


Buy it if you think to be a little Scrooge in every sense, and you will start a new real beautiful chapter in your life!


I thank NetGalley and Llewellyn Publishing.

I am going to use this book as the new year starts in 2017. I love all the recommendations it has and think it will be a great way to follow those "New Year Resolutions!"