How to want more without feeling guilty for book clubs: honest answers for Laporte

For Laporte readers · honest answers

The opposite of gratitude isn't ingratitude. In Laporte, as everywhere, it's autopilot: the cruise control that feels like progress until you check the map.

And this is Laporte: a community in the Fort Collins orbit where ambition is normal, busy is a badge, and gratitude can quietly slip into autopilot And that's precisely where gratitude and growth start arguing — politely.

🎧 A note for Laporte readers (a moment of audio)

“I should be grateful, but I still feel unfinished. If you've ever said that, this book was written for you.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

The signs that land hardest in Laporte

You describe your life with gratitude and your days with a sigh — and both are true.
You've gotten very good at maintaining things, and you can't remember the last thing you built.
The idea of wanting more feels almost embarrassing, like admitting the life you have isn't enough.

Try this tonight (5 minutes)

Write down one thing you're genuinely grateful for in Laporte — then write one thing you've been calling 'gratitude' that is actually fear of trying.
Set a 10-minute timer tomorrow morning and do one small thing your 'more' would do.

None of this means your life is broken. It means it's ready. Gratitude was never supposed to be the finish line — it's the fuel.

The ending that gets bookmarked

It ends where most books begin: with a practical, kind, slightly uncomfortable question about what you'll actually do next. Readers in Laporte and across the country keep the last chapter bookmarked.

You asked — Laporte answers

Is this a religious book? No — it's a personal-growth memoir-essay hybrid with universal themes. Readers of any background (or none) quote it the same way.

Why is it only $0.99 on Kindle? To make the decision easy. It's free with Kindle Unlimited, and the $14.99 paperback is the same book in a format you can gift.

For every Mountain West reader who nodded too many times

There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency says the rest — with humor, warmth, and zero guilt-trip. Kindle $0.99 · free on KU · paperback $14.99.

There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency — book cover Kindle — $0.99 Paperback — $14.99

Kindle Unlimited: $0 · Paperback: $14.99 + Prime · Book-club prompts: main site.