Download or read book What Makes You Happy written by Fiona Robards and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you want most in life? Most peoplewould answer: "I just want to be happy." Sounds simple, but what does happiness look like? And is the life you lead now bringing you closer to happiness? Many of us have adopted lifestyles that don't support happiness. We lead lives that are too rushed, too stressed and too focused on things that don't matter. And our obsession with economic development is destroying the natural environment. We need to rethink our way of life because our unhealthy lifestyles are making us physically and mentally unwell. They're making us unhappier, not happier. The solutions -- doing things that support our wellbeing, finding opportunities to connect with others and supporting the environment we live in -- are intrinsically linked. The good news is that many simple, positive, healthy choices and activities promote wellbeing. Fiona Robards is a psychologist -- with four Masters degrees -- but the things that make her happy are simple: a walk with a friend, a movie, travelling, watching waves rise and fall, kindness. In What Makes You Happy? she looks at ten areas of our life, ranging from finances to relationships, personal style to having fun, and through a series of practical exercises and searching questions guides us down the path to finding our own simple solutions to everyday happiness, so that we can stress less and live calmer, richer lives.
Download or read book If It Makes You Happy written by Claire Kann and published by Swoon Reads. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Kann's If It Makes You Happy is a coming-of-age novel about a young girl learning to embrace her cultural and sexuality identity. Winnie is living her best fat girl life and is on her way to the best place on earth. No, not Disneyland--her Granny’s diner, Goldeen’s, in the small town of Misty Haven. While there, she works in her fabulous 50’s inspired uniform, twirling around the diner floor and earning an obscene amount of tips. With her family and ungirlfriend at her side, she has everything she needs for one last perfect summer before starting college in the fall. ...until she becomes Misty Haven’s Summer Queen in a highly anticipated matchmaking tradition that she wants absolutely nothing to do with. Newly crowned, Winnie is forced to take center stage in photoshoots and a never-ending list of community royal engagements. Almost immediately, she discovers that she’s deathly afraid of it all: the spotlight, the obligations, and the way her Merry Haven Summer King, wears his heart, humor, and honesty on his sleeve. Stripped of Goldeen’s protective bubble, to salvage her summer Winnie must conquer her fears, defy expectations, and be the best Winnie she knows she can be—regardless of what anyone else thinks of her.
Download or read book Happiness by Design written by Paul Dolan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not just another happiness book. In Happiness by Design, happiness and behavior expert Paul Dolan combines the latest insights from economics and psychology to illustrate that in order to be happy we must behave happy Our happiness is experiences of both pleasure and purpose over time and it depends on what we actually pay attention to. Using what Dolan calls deciding, designing, and doing, we can overcome the biases that make us miserable and redesign our environments to make it easier to experience happiness, fulfilment, and even health. With uncanny wit and keen perception, Dolan reveals what we can do to find our unique optimal balance of pleasure and purpose, offering practical advice on how to organize our lives in happiness-promoting ways and fresh insights into how we feel, including why: • Having kids reduces pleasure but gives us a massive dose of purpose • Gaining weight won’t necessarily make us unhappier, but being too ambitious might • A quiet neighborhood is more important than a big house Vividly rendering intriguing research and lively anecdotal evidence, Happiness by Design offers an absorbing, thought-provoking, new paradigm for readers of Stumbling on Happiness and The How of Happiness.
Download or read book Happy Ever After written by Paul Dolan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be ambitious; find everlasting love; look after your health ... There are countless stories about how we ought to live our lives. These narratives can make our lives easier, and they might sometimes make us happier too. But they can also trap us and those around us. In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Professor Paul Dolan draws on a wealth of evidence to bust the common myths about our sources of happiness and shows that there can be many unexpected paths to lasting happiness. Some of these might involve not going into higher education, choosing not to marry, rewarding acts rooted in self-interest and caring a little less about living forever. By freeing ourselves from the myth of the perfect life, we might each find a life worth living.
Download or read book Do More of What Makes You Happy Journal 2020 Weekly Monthly Planner 1 2020 to Dec 31 2020 with 122 Pages 6 X 9 Do What Makes You Happy Quotes Calendar 2020 Quotes Planner 2020 Happy Planner 2020 2021 written by Makes You Happy 2020 Planners and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Do More Of What Makes You Happy 2020 Weekly & Monthly Planner, journal and notebook is great for jotting lists, taking notes, gratitude, doodling, brainstorming, prayer, meditation and mindfulness journaling, perfect for gel pen, ink or pencils, great size to carry everywhere in your bag, for work, high school, college, best gift idea for christmas, birthday, graduation or beginning of the school year gift for men, women and girls.This do more of what makes you happy planner is a perfect organizational tool. daily pages combined with suggestions for things to do keep you focused on your daily schedule, with space for notes and the daily priority list each monthly spread (January 2020 through December 2020) contains an overview of the month, a notes section, blank and lined, dotted pages.
Download or read book Happy Money written by Elizabeth Dunn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of spending. Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money. When it comes to spending that money, most people just follow their intuitions. But scientific research shows that those intuitions are often wrong. Happy Money explains why you can get more happiness for your money by following five principles, from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. And the five principles can be used not only by individuals but by companies seeking to create happier employees and provide “happier products” to their customers. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton show how companies from Google to Pepsi to Crate & Barrel have put these ideas into action. Along the way, the authors describe new research that reveals that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models, that commercials can actually enhance the enjoyment of watching television, and that residents of many cities frequently miss out on inexpensive pleasures in their hometowns. By the end of this book, readers will ask themselves one simple question whenever they reach for their wallets: Am I getting the biggest happiness bang for my buck?
Download or read book Do One Thing Every Day That Makes You Happy written by Robie Rogge and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each day presents an opportunity to find delight, whether in your surroundings, your work, your relationships, your insights, or your actions. This journal will guide you to look inside and outside yourself to discover and appreciate what makes you happiest. With prompts and exercises, the wise words of writers, musicians, philosophers, and leaders will help you reflect on what fills you with joy. You’ll measure your happiness at the outset and along the way; after a year’s worth of delight, your smile will be bigger than ever.
Download or read book Whatever Makes You Happy written by William Sutcliffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as Whatever Makes You Happy, the hilarious and moving novel about mothers and their adult sons, now a Netflix original movie starring Felicity Huffman, Angela Bassett and Patricia Arquette which has now been viewed on over 27 million accounts worldwide Matt, Daniel and Paul were childhood friends. Now in their thirties, they've lost touch and have only one thing in common: their mothers. Little do they know that, having spent a cardless Mother's Day discussing how their emotionally dysfunctional offspring should be settling down, Carol, Gillian and Helen have decided to pay their wayward sons a visit. On the same day, they turn up on their sons' doorsteps, uninvited and unannounced. Their plan is to reestablish the mother-son bond by moving in for one week. Just a week. Surely that's not a lot to ask...
Download or read book Stumbling on Happiness written by Daniel Gilbert and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it. Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had expected. Why? As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Just as memory plays tricks on us when we try to look backward in time, so does imagination play tricks when we try to look forward. Using cutting-edge research, much of it original, Gilbert shakes, cajoles, persuades, tricks and jokes us into accepting the fact that happiness is not really what or where we thought it was. Among the unexpected questions he poses: Why are conjoined twins no less happy than the general population? When you go out to eat, is it better to order your favourite dish every time, or to try something new? If Ingrid Bergman hadn’t gotten on the plane at the end of Casablanca, would she and Bogey have been better off? Smart, witty, accessible and laugh-out-loud funny, Stumbling on Happiness brilliantly describes all that science has to tell us about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely we are to enjoy it when we get there.
Download or read book Whatever You Do Be Happy written by Julia Dellitt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banish negative thinking once and for all and shift into a happier, stress-free mindset with these 400 ways to seeing the best in every situation! You know you should be staying positive, but how do you get back to your happy place after something sidetracks your thoughts? Whether you’re having a bad day, are suddenly faced with a difficult situation, or you’ve found yourself in a bit of a rut, Whatever You Do, Be Happy is the perfect guide to getting back to a positive mindset. This book includes 400 totally manageable activities that will bring back your smile with ease! Try finding a quiet space to help you reset from a stressful experience or take a few minutes to focus on your breathing when trying to solve a problem. You will discover that it doesn’t take months of work or a total life overhaul to live a happy lifestyle. All it takes is the simple, actionable advice in this book to start changing your mindset immediately. Start your journey to optimism and happiness now!
Download or read book Happier at Home written by Gretchen Rubin and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy wrote, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This is the statement that inspired bestselling author Gretchen Rubin to wonder whether she could foster an even greater happiness in her home. During The Happiness Project, the same questions kept tugging at her. How can I raise happy children? How can I maintain a tender, romantic relationship with my spouse--after fifteen years of marriage? How do I keep my Blackberry from taking over my private life? How can I foster a well-ordered, light-hearted atmosphere in my house, when no one else will lift a finger to cooperate? This book is Gretchen's account of her second journey in pursuit of happiness. Prescriptive, easy-to-follow, and anecdotal, Happier at Home offers readers a way of thinking and being that is positive and life-affirming. With specific examples following the calendar year, an intimate voice, and drawing from science and pop culture, this book will resonate with anyone looking to strengthen the bonds of family.
Download or read book The Socrates Express written by Eric Weiner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times. We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a different perspective, to unearth hidden beauty, and to find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope. Eric Weiner combines his twin passions for philosophy and travel in a globe-trotting pilgrimage that uncovers surprising life lessons from great thinkers around the world, from Rousseau to Nietzsche, Confucius to Simone Weil. Traveling by train (the most thoughtful mode of transport), he journeys thousands of miles, making stops in Athens, Delhi, Wyoming, Coney Island, Frankfurt, and points in between to reconnect with philosophy’s original purpose: teaching us how to lead wiser, more meaningful lives. From Socrates and ancient Athens to Beauvoir and 20th-century Paris, Weiner’s chosen philosophers and places provide important practical and spiritual lessons as we navigate today’s chaotic times. In a “delightful” odyssey that “will take you places intellectually and humorously” (San Francisco Book Review), Weiner invites us to voyage alongside him on his life-changing pursuit of wisdom and discovery as he attempts to find answers to our most vital questions. The Socrates Express is “full of valuable lessons…a fun, sharp book that draws readers in with its apparent simplicity and bubble-gum philosophy approach and gradually pulls them in deeper and deeper” (NPR).
Download or read book Happy Ever After written by Christine Bradstreet and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine lifelong happiness, the sort of happiness that's so rock solid it's not affected by the events going on around you. If that sort of happiness has slipped through your fingers in the past, you're in the right place. Join Christine Bradstreet as she guides you through healing your life and unlocking the secrets to growing genuine, lifelong happiness. As you read Happy Ever After, expect to grow the type of happiness that's felt out of reach for you until now. If you already consider yourself a somewhat happy person, expect to move on to deeper and more permanent happiness with this book. As you read the book and go through its steps, you'll spark a flame beneath your inner happiness. It's the happiness that resides within you, even if you don't feel it today, and even if you've never felt it before. Like fog lifting, your true happiness is going to re-emerge. Dr. Bradstreet will guide you to set a strong foundation for personal growth. You'll learn to see yourself and others differently as you expand your understanding of your true spiritual nature. You'll resolve and heal your past. You'll uncover the reasons behind your unhappiness and the things that aren't working in your life. And, you'll learn to recognize the thoughts, habits, and beliefs that have been sabotaging your happiness until now. There are universal divine principles of happiness, and you'll learn to put them to use in your life. Finally, use the section of actionable happiness hacks to awaken your happiness each day. Also available is this book's companion journal, Hold This Thought, by Christine Bradstreet.
Download or read book Play with the Day a Yearly Goal Journal Cast a Vision Set Monthly Intentions Live with Soul written by Suzanne Heyn and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play with the Day is a soulful goal journal, planner and habit tracker that will help you live better -- not just get more done. With it, you''ll weave beautiful rituals and habits into your life along with a few focused to-do''s, leaving plenty of room for play. You''ll live more soulfully while tapping into the universe''s magic to help you become who you most want to be. Because life isn''t about checking things off a list -- it''s about living! Unfortunately, most planners are a series of to-do''s, which results in living from the brain and not from the heart. Big dreams are not achieved by logic alone! Strategy is a powerful tool, but creatives who live from the heart require something more. Living from the heart is about taking one right next step at a time, allowing ourselves to be guided as life changes and we change. It requires us to stay open to inspired guidance and serendipity, the kind of magic that transcends logic but is the special sauce necessary for turning the wildest beyond wild dreams into reality. If your desires transcend logic, then your planner needs to, too. Play with the Day Yearly Goal Journal strikes the perfect balance between masculine structure and feminine flow. **This journal is UNDATED, allowing you to start and stop at any time.** Play with the Day Yearly Goal Journal features 8 parts: Part 1: Review First, you''ll take stock of the 12 months that just passed with guided journaling prompts to help you compassionately assess how things have been going for you and create closure. Part 2: Daydream Next, you''ll tune into your heart and ask yourself what you''d create if anything was possible. Time to go beyond the limits of your mind and existing reality! Part 3: Cast a vision The most fun part! You''ll create a vision in 8 key areas of life. Each area offers two pages, one to brainstorm and another to create a mini vision board to harness the law of attraction. Part 4: Build a positive mindset Hidden fears will stop you from manifesting your dreams unless you honor them and write a new story! This guided journal portion will help you uncover even the most secret, deep hidden sabotages, allowing you to move beyond them and create real change in your life. Part 5: Create stepping stones to your vision A big part of realizing your dreams is simply making success a habit. In this section, you''ll identify the main habits that will get you where you want to go and figure out how to implement them in your life. Part 6: Live with soul This is the soul of this goal setting workbook! Each month, you''ll write about your desires and what you''re grateful for, creating a powerful foundation to the start of the month. You''ll set a main intention and up to 3 goals while digging into a handful of juicy guided journaling prompts -- just enough to deepen you into your goal without overwhelming you. You''ll also connect to the main habits or rituals required to achieve your goal. Part 7: Track your habits This section features a habit tracker for maintaining the habits you''ve identified as important for helping you achieve your goals and become who you want to be. Part 8: Close the year Finally, close the year with a few brief, soulful questions different than those in Part 1. **The idea behind this habit tracker journal is that healthy habits create the foundation of joy and success. It''s not what you do one day, but what you do every day. Using this goal setting journal and workbook, you''ll achieve the perfect balance of structure and flow. Life is about more than work and getting things done. Sometimes you need a massage or a hike! And sometimes during that massage or hike, you receive a multi-million dollar idea. You can''t schedule that. It has to come from within. With Play with the Day, you''ll identify those messages to create a life as unique as you are.
Download or read book What Makes Us Happy written by David Leads and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Just Want To Be Happy. I Wish I Could Just Be Happy. All I Really Want Is To Be Happy. How many times have you heard these statements? How many times have you said them? Do you really want to be happy in life? Do you know what it takes to be happy in life? After everything you do for money, power, prestige, and fulfillment, it all comes back to happiness, and maximizing your happiness. So, how do you know that what you're doing is really something that's going to make you happy? It's so easy to fall into the traps that society feeds us about what we need to do in order to be happy. However, it's easy to know what doesn't make you happy. You know that buying things doesn't make you happy. You know that owning a fancy car doesn't make you happy. You know that working 12 hours a day doesn't make you happy. So, do you actually know what makes you happy? We wanted to find out. So we interviewed close to 100 people. We asked them what made them happiest in their lives, and we discovered 10 happiness themes that made people happy. This book will teach you 10 real ways to increase happiness in your life This book is for people who want to increase happiness in their lives. It's for people who enjoy their lives, but want to live life to the fullest, and who want to maximize their happiness. What will this book do for you? You will learn the 10 ways to increase happiness. And here's a hint - they all relate to giving to other people. When you GIVE happiness you actually GAIN happiness. That's how to be happy. Here are the 10 ways: 1. Recognize the work of others 2. Stay in touch with friends and family 3. Give unexpected help 4. Give meaningful gifts 5. Spend time with others 6. Give physical affection 7. Notice other people 8. Share other people's interests 9. Vocalize your feelings to others 10. Have good conversations with other people These 10 ways to increase happiness are simple, obvious, yet virtually nobody does them. This book will teach you why each of these 10 ways work, how you should implement each of them, and what it will do for your life when you use them. Use this book as your guide for learning how to increase the happiness in your life!
Download or read book The Happiness Reset written by Tamara Lechner and published by Lechner Syndications. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamara's happiness journey began when her daughter was diagnosed with autism and she found her world turned upside down. The things she thought were important for a happy life (like cars, houses, and clothes) took a backseat to connection, joy and purpose. This led to Tamara's commitment to improving proactive wellbeing on a global scale working world leaders in contextual wellbeing measurement and management. The Happiness Reset- What to do When Nothing Makes You Happy couples positive psychology interventions with days of the week to give structure and support to wellbeing in a highly individualized way. Tamara's deep belief is that happiness happens by choice, not chance.
Download or read book Tiny Love Stories written by Daniel Jones and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Charming. . . . A moving testament to the diversity and depths of love.” —Publishers Weekly You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be swept away—in less time than it takes to read this paragraph. Here are 175 true stories—honest, funny, tender and wise—each as moving as a lyric poem, all told in no more than one hundred words. An electrician lights up a woman’s life, a sister longs for her homeless brother, strangers dream of what might have been. Love lost, found and reclaimed. Love that’s romantic, familial, platonic and unexpected. Most of all, these stories celebrate love as it exists in real life: a silly remark that leads to a lifetime together, a father who struggles to remember his son, ordinary moments that burn bright.
