Today host Hoda Kotb knows what it is to have a bad day. She’s experienced loss and disappointments and has survived cancer. Now she tries to focus on the positive, and she starts every day with an uplifting Instagram post. She chooses an early morning quote that motivates her, makes her laugh, or reminds her of her power, and she posts it for all of her followers to see.
But not everyone’s on Instagram, and not every moment are we online. For those offline moments, when we’re still needing some inspiration, there is help. Hoda has come out with a book filled with a year’s worth of uplifting posts, complete with her comments and stories about what make the quotes meaningful for her.
I Really Needed This Today is filled with moving quotes from celebrities and authors, from history and from yesterday, from people you know and anonymous writers with a moment’s inspiration that lives on. Hoda takes these quotes and shares her own take, her personal stories, moments with her children, her challenges and celebrations, her shortcomings and her breakthroughs.
In turns funny, moving, personal, heartfelt, candid, grateful, open, snarky, courageous, and profound, these daily shots of spiritual B12 can offer readers a chance to reconnect with their joy, with their gratitude, with their faith, and with their dreams.
I Really Needed This Today is perfect for a gift, for yourself or for someone else. But I recommend keeping it at home for private moments, as there was a day at work I almost started ugly crying, moved so powerfully as I was by Hoda’s honesty and openness.
Galleys for I Really Needed This Today Were provided by G.P. Putnam’s Sons through NetGalley, with many thanks.