Book description
Now, you can find the happiness you want and live “the good life” you
deserve by applying the helpful information in
Happiness For Dummies
, the ultimate guide to achieving bliss! You'll discover proven
techniques for living a meaningful, healthy, and productive life no
matter what your life circumstances happen to be. Positive concepts and
techniques will help you change key behaviors, foster good habits, and
be in sync with your surroundings.
This helpful guide will give you
the chance to assess your happiness and understand what it means to be
happy at each stage of self-actualization. You'll learn why having
positive emotions can improve your health and well-being. And, you
will find out what happiness isn't and how to avoid confusing
happiness with culturally valued outcomes like wealth, power, and
success. Pursue what you want, seize the day, find benefits in life's
challenges, and live a coherent lifestyle. Find out how to:
- Assess your current capacity for happiness
- Live the life that you want
- Overcome common obstacles to happiness
- Identify your strengths and virtues
- Improve your emotional and spiritual life
- Create meaningful social ties and learn to be alone
- Find the silver lining
Complete with lists of ten ways to raise a happy child, ten common
roadblocks to happiness, and ten personal habits to foster happiness,
Happiness For Dummies is your one-stop, easy-to-follow guide
to being happy and living your best life.
W. Doyle Gentry, PhD, is a clinical psychologist,
a distinguished Fellow in the American Psychological Association, and
the Founding Editor of the Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
