How to want more without feeling guilty for new moms: honest answers for Lincoln

Lincoln · this week's honest page

Ask around Lincoln and most people will tell you they're grateful. Ask them what they're building next and the room gets quieter. That silence is the whole subject of this page.

And this is Lincoln: part of greater Providence, full of people who built a good life on purpose and still feel the pull toward more Which is exactly why this question lands differently here than anywhere else.

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

“Ambition is not ingratitude.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency

The pattern Lincoln knows by heart

Comfort arrives as a reward, stays as a routine, and leaves as a regret — usually in that order.
You keep upgrading the life and forgetting the liver of it.
You've outsourced wanting to the next purchase, the next trip, the next anything.

Ten minutes at the edge

Sit somewhere in Lincoln you usually pass through — a park bench, a parking lot, a quiet street — and do absolutely nothing for ten minutes.
Whatever your mind keeps circling back to without a screen in front of it is the thing this book would tell you to look at.

Gratitude looks backward with warmth. Growth looks forward with nerve. A full life uses both sets of eyes.

The book's actual argument

Chapter by chapter, There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency separates peace from autopilot: what to keep, what to restart, and how to want more from a life you already love — without the guilt spiral so many ambition books accidentally create.

Lincoln Q&A

Do I need to be unhappy to get something from it? No — it's written for people who like their lives and suspect there's more. Gratitude is the starting point, not the problem.

Does it work as a gift? It's the rare growth book that reads as a compliment, not a hint. The paperback is the usual gift format, and it ships with Prime.

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Start a free KU sample tonight or grab the $0.99 Kindle edition — and let Lindsey Nasser finish the sentence this page started.

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