Welcome to Nobody Told me

Because they only make my heart

grateful

Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.

And today we are thrilled to be talking to John Kralik.

He is the author of a fantastic book called A Simple Act of Gratitude,

How Learning to Say Thank You Changed My Life. And he is also a judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court.

Welcome to the show, John. Thank you. Hi, Jan. Hi, Laura. I'm happy to be here.

Yeah, we are thrilled to have you here. Tell us about the journey that led to you writing this book.

Well, I was at a very difficult point in my life.

I was running a small law firm, and at the end of the year, I added up all the receipts and figured out that my salary for the year was a negative

$17,000. So I hadn't made anything. I was very frustrated. I was going through my second divorce.

And I think I often say that, you know, when it's happening the second time, it might actually be the fault and not the other person.

And so I was really struggling and I really felt somewhat angry like I had, you know, nothing at all to to be grateful for I had some hope in that I

just won a big verdict and I was dating somebody new but right before Christmas the judge

threw out the verdict and she broke up with me so I I really felt kind of hopeless. I walked up to the top of the mountain here in one of my favorite walks above Los Angeles,

Echo Park, Echo Canyon, which many people recognize.

And I got lost on that walk back into the woods.

And I heard a voice telling me that until I learned to be grateful

for the things that I had, I wouldn't receive the things that I wanted. And on the way down,

I made a resolution to write one thank you note a day for a year just to see if anything would get any

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