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Dr. Kirk Mahoney (Author)
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October 31, 2011
"Give Me 5 Minutes a Day, and I'll Give You Greater Satisfaction with Your Running or Walking in Less than 4 Months" -- That's the claim of author Kirk Mahoney about his book Gratitude Power for Runners and Walkers.

This is you.


You, the runner or walker, are always looking to make time for your workouts, improve your performance, and avoid getting hurt. You wake before your family does, so you can go for a training run or walk. You cross-train and study what others do, so you can cut your chip time down to size. You work on your form and scratch your head at the shoes-or-barefoot debate, all in attempts to protect yourself from injury.

But, is this you, too?


Things don't always work out as planned.
  • You feel guilty or get annoyed -- or even feel guilty because you got annoyed! -- when your child or spouse stops you just as you were about to slip out the door for an early-morning workout.
  • Your chip times seem to be drifting upward, and you're getting angry while thinking, "What the heck is going on?!"
  • Your fear of getting hurt has shortened your stride and ruined your form.
Is this how you want to live?

Do happy, successful runners and walkers build their training regimens around annoyance, guilt, anger, and fear?

Of course not.


There is a better way.


There is a solution. It's a book called Gratitude Power for Runners and Walkers, and here's what it will do for you:
  1. Start your day on the right foot -- in less than five minutes.
  2. Enjoy every single aspect of your training and racing.
  3. Appreciate everything that supports you as a runner or walker.
It takes a special individual.

Of course, it takes a very special individual to fully appreciate the value of gratitude.
Just think about all the conversations you've had with ungrateful runners or walkers that turned into gripe sessions ... and maybe you thought:
  • "Wow, you are ungrateful for everything that you have."
  • "Have you heard about the concept of gratitude?"
  • "Wait, I'm not your therapist!"
Stop being a therapist for others.

You will stop being a therapist to fellow runners or walkers as soon as you take control and raise your own level of gratitude for everything in your life:
  • Activities
  • People
  • Places
  • Things
  • Your Body
Read this book for your own therapy.

Gratitude Power for Runners and Walkers
is filled with 906 statements across 105 topics relevant to your life as a runner or walker.

Spend just five minutes a day reading about a topic and the gratitude statements that go with it, and you will change your life in less than four months.


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About the Author

Kirk Mahoney loves to run and walk. So he created SpryFeet.com as a place to help you to kindle happiness with your endurance running or walking while you enjoy growth and better health from the sport. And this book reflects his passion for using gratitude to transform all areas of one's life. Kirk lives in Houston, Texas, with his wife, Eunice, who is an endurance walker.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 146 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace (October 31, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1466493852
  • ISBN-13: 978-1466493858
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,625,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Kirk Mahoney, whose books are sold in twenty-three countries (and counting!), has three great passions: communication, endurance running & walking, and happiness.

Kirk believes that athletes can perform better by being happier, so he gives great tips and techniques on how they can be happier -- through his books and at SpryFeet.com.

Kirk also believes that everyone can learn to communicate better, so he created KirkMahoney.com as a place to discuss English punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Positive power December 20, 2011
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Endurance running can be thankless, long and painful - unless you find a reason within yourself to run. Gratitide Power for Runners and Walkers helps each reader find that missing element to make every run the most positive it can be. We've all had bad runs. It's easy to dwell and just as easy not to lace up the next time the calendar says it's time for that training run. When you use your runs to look for those things that make each run special and find gratitude in just that, the bad runs are easily forgotten. Thank you, Dr. Mahoney, for putting in words those things we all need to remember step by step, run by run.
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The power of an attitude of gratitude cannot be overstated - but it is still something a lot of folks have trouble cultivating. In this book, Dr. Mahoney has made doing so much easier with great thoughts on the benefits of gratitude and lists of tons of things for which to be grateful. Even though the book is aimed at runners and walkers, I can see it being beneficial for anyone who is simply a breather. (Funny thing, though - since starting this book, I've greatly increased the amount of walking I do...!)
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This is another excellent book by Dr. Kirk Mahoney! I work with professional and amateur athletes and am always reminding them of the power gratitude has on their performance results.

What I particularly like about this book is the level of detail and thoroughness. Dr. Mahoney has created five categories to focus your gratitude: Activities, People, Places, Things, Your Body, and gratitude statements for each category. Even though I'm not a runner or power walker, I can find gratitude in nearly every statement or I can change the statement to apply to my circumstances.

I am recommending this book to all my athletes as the perfect template for learning to express gratitude in their sport!
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