New picture book · Ages 3–7
The Happy Garden
A bedtime story about what to water.
Tilly’s dad tells her the little patch of dirt behind their house grows whatever you think about. She grumbles, and up come the weeds. Then she finds a better thing to think about. The Law of Attraction, bedtime-sized, with a three-good-things ritual for lights out.
🎁 A perfect stocking stuffer · Book 1 of The Tilly Books · Free printable garden page
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Feel Good First,
read by Jeff.
The complete audiobook in the author’s own voice. About 6½ hours. Stream it anywhere, or download it and keep it forever.
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Chapter one, on the house
I'll send you The Door Marked Pull right now — the opening chapter of Feel Good First.
The New Book
The book I wish someone had handed me at 25.
Twenty-two short chapters. One rule, twenty-two angles. Written in plain English, and you'll laugh more than you expect to.
Written to walk you back to what you already know — and keep forgetting.
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"The better you feel, the better it goes.
That's how reality is built."
— Feel Good First
The Author
Jeff Utter
I've spent nearly two decades practicing this work daily and teaching it to a small weekly circle. That shared love is what grew the Joy Is The Key community to 128,000+ members. Feel Good First is the book version of what I've been saying in those Sunday rooms for years — distilled, twenty-two ways, in plain English.
I also wrote Reality Is Optional, run a Sunday mastermind, and built JoyPilot — an app for the practice. Everything I do points at the same thing: feeling good is not a reward for getting your life right. It's the doorway.
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