Chip Franks believes the world has enough people grinding through their days without joy. What it needs more of are Joyful Savages — people who’ve done the work to genuinely love being alive, even in hard seasons. After a stroke at 45 left him broken and depressed, Chip rebuilt his brain through a gratitude practice so systematic and neurologically grounded that it became something others could replicate. He’s now on a mission to help high performers transform from success without satisfaction to lives fully savored. Through The Joyful Savage Movement and the A-OK a Day Foundation, Chip is building a cultural shift — one where gratitude isn’t fluffy, it’s fierce. Chip has been endorsed by Hal Elrod (author of The Miracle Morning), James Altucher (author of Choose Yourself), and Emily Fletcher (founder of Ziva Meditation). He lives in Texas with his family.
❤️👍 Quick Blessings!
Howdy Reader!
It's late in the day, and I want to get this little piece of (hopefully) love, joy, and blessings out to you--please use it to count your own blessings!
Let's get right to it!
- Being able to get stuff done--to design the things we want and need to do, to organize them, and actually take action to get them done. It feels so good to "check them off" of the list. I did a little of that today.
- Recipes online. My wife is making "Marry Me," chicken right now...it's about to be done and smells sooooo good. Thank you to whoever takes the time to create and/or post these. My family will be feasting in just a bit!
- Mean people doing business. My wife had to deal with a particularly foul person today...and for the life of me, I just don't GET why or how people can be so rude and a-holeish.
It's a chance to practice Grace--although I don't always do it. I have a philosophy that says (I'm doing this from memory, so it may not be exactly accurate):
"People may be mean, rude, lying, unreasonable, and ugly...and I choose to love them anyway."
It's taken from a saying Mother Teresa had, and I adapted it. So these mean people give us a chance to work on ourselves. I'm grateful for that.
- "Fish" came home last night. He's my daughter Mandy's cat, he's a stinker, and she spoils and treats him like a real child. Well, he left last night to wander the woods next door at night (I actually let him out before it got dark, but he didn't return until after dark). We had to go out and search for him for 45 minutes for my anxious baby girl.
And we finally got him. That stinker. But he makes my daughter so happy, so I'm grateful he's back.
- My son got to spend time with his Guelos today (grandparents). He loves them so much, and they love him--and it's just an absolute good that they get to spend time together. They are so cute together, and Alec's granddad is probably his favorite human....which stings JUST a little...but I'm so happy that they get the time together.
That's it!
I hope you know and realize that you're loved.
With love,
❤️👍 Chip
Love * Life * More
Chip Franks believes the world has enough people grinding through their days without joy. What it needs more of are Joyful Savages — people who’ve done the work to genuinely love being alive, even in hard seasons. After a stroke at 45 left him broken and depressed, Chip rebuilt his brain through a gratitude practice so systematic and neurologically grounded that it became something others could replicate. He’s now on a mission to help high performers transform from success without satisfaction to lives fully savored. Through The Joyful Savage Movement and the A-OK a Day Foundation, Chip is building a cultural shift — one where gratitude isn’t fluffy, it’s fierce. Chip has been endorsed by Hal Elrod (author of The Miracle Morning), James Altucher (author of Choose Yourself), and Emily Fletcher (founder of Ziva Meditation). He lives in Texas with his family.
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