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Paperback — $14.99Marco Island · this week's honest page
The opposite of gratitude isn't ingratitude. In Marco Island, as everywhere, it's autopilot: the cruise control that feels like progress until you check the map.
And this is Marco Island: one of the Naples 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 That's why the answer can't be a slogan. It has to be lived.
🎧 A note for Marco Island readers (read aloud)
“Ambition is not ingratitude.” — There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency
Being thankful for today and honest about tomorrow is not a contradiction — it's the whole assignment.
Written with warmth and a sharp eye for the details of ordinary life — school hallways, group chats, Sunday kitchens — the book treats your plateau with respect, and then hands you the keys out of it.
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.
Is this aimed at women? It's written with a broad, warm voice that lands strongly with women 30-60 — book-club favorite territory — and plenty of husbands keep borrowing it.
Trade twenty minutes of scrolling for the first chapter of There Is a Fine Line Between Gratefulness and Complacency — free on KU, $0.99 on Kindle, $14.99 paperback.
Kindle — $0.99
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Kindle Unlimited: $0 · Paperback: $14.99 + Prime · Book-club prompts: main site.