The Book of Happiness: Brilliant Ideas to Transform Your Life

by Heather Summers (WorkMagic, UK); Anne Watson (Executive Focus Ltd, UK)

• ISBN13: 9781907293900
• ISBN10: 1907293906
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-02-01
• Publisher: Capstone

Summary

The acclaimed authors of The Book of Luck are back with some brilliant ideas for bringing more happiness into your life. The Book of Happiness is more than just a practical guide to improving your happiness levels. It's a complete makeover, aimed at putting a spring in your step, and a permanent lift to your spirits. We all know happiness is a state of mind, but few of us know how to improve our share of it. Many people think that happiness just comes out of nowhere. Not so. The reality is you can create your own happiness by choosing what you do, what you say, where you go, what you remember, who and what you surround yourself with, what you think and what you listen to. The Book of Happiness kicks off with a Happiness Questionnaire to give you an instant snapshot of your current state of mind. Once you have scored yourself, you will learn the areas you need to focus on. There is a workbook to complete at each key stage, as well as stirring anecdotes, tips and happy thoughts to keep you going. Just remember: it only takes 21 days to get rid of an unwanted habit and to acquire a new one. Isn't it about time you got the happiness habit?

Table of Contents

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: What is happiness and how to develop the Happiness Habit

The Happiness Questionnaire

The Stairway of Happiness

Surroundings

Creating an environment that will increase your happiness

What we mean by Surroundings

How your Surroundings affect your happiness

Brilliant Ideas for improving your Surroundings and growing the Happiness Habit

Workbook - practical actions you can take to increase the amount of happiness in your Surroundings

Take the Happiness Challenge!

Behaviour

Changing what you do to create the Happiness Habit

What we mean by Behaviour

How your Behaviour affects your happiness

Brilliant Ideas for improving your Behaviour and growing the Happiness Habit

Workbook - practical actions to increase the amount of happiness that results from the things you do

Take the Happiness Challenge!

Skills and Capabilities

Making the most of your talents and using them to develop new happiness skills

What we mean by Skills and Capabilities

How your Skills and Capabilities affect your happiness

Brilliant Ideas for improving your Skills and Capabilities to grow the Happiness Habit

Workbook - practical actions you can take to make the most of your Skills and Competencies and therefore increase your happiness

Take the Happiness Challenge!

Values and Beliefs

Being true to what you value and believe so that it adds to the happiness in your life

What we mean by Values and Beliefs

How Values and Beliefs affect your happiness

Brilliant Ideas for living your life according to your true Values and Beliefs - and therefore increasing your happiness

Workbook - practical actions you can take to make the most of the Values and Beliefs that work for you and which will result in happiness

Take the Happiness Challenge!

Identity - Be Yourself

Being yourself - seeing yourself for who you are and using this knowledge to get the happiness you truly deserve

What we mean by Identity

How your Identity affects your happiness

Brilliant Ideas for getting to know who you are and to be happy within yourself

Workbook - practical actions you can take to increase the amount of happiness resulting from being true to yourself

Take the Happiness Challenge!

Purpose

Being more than yourself - finding the path to the Purpose and meaning in your life

What we mean by Purpose

How your Purpose affects your happiness

Brilliant Ideas for fi nding your Purpose in life and feeling happy about why you are here

Workbook - practical actions you can take to set a course for happiness in your life

Take the Happiness Challenge!

Happiness and Work - Questionnaire

Lancaster University Research Findings

Index

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