Kindle — $0.99
Paperback — $14.99For the quietly restless in Bernalillo
The opposite of gratitude isn't ingratitude. In Bernalillo, as everywhere, it's autopilot: the cruise control that feels like progress until you check the map.
And this is Bernalillo: one of the Albuquerque area's most established communities — the kind of place where life looks handled from the outside, which is exactly why the gratitude-versus-settling question lands so quietly here Which is exactly the kind of setting where comfort is easiest to mistake for closure.
🎧 A note for Bernalillo readers (spoken excerpt)
“There is a fine line between gratefulness and complacency. One brings peace. The other slowly convinces you to settle.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency
The goal isn't to despise the life you have. It's to love it enough to keep growing inside it.
There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency doesn't lecture — it reflects. The chapters move from late-90s nostalgia to modern comparison traps, from career plateaus to the quiet marriages of gratitude and ambition, always in language that feels like a smart friend talking straight.
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.
What's the one-line takeaway? 'Grateful' and 'growing' were never opposites — and the moment you pick both, the guilt goes quiet.
The full book goes chapter-by-chapter through the exact line you just felt — Kindle $0.99, paperback $14.99, free on Kindle Unlimited.
Kindle — $0.99
Paperback — $14.99
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