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  • Happiness for Dummies

  • By: W. Doyle Gentry
  • Narrated by: Brett Barry
  • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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Happiness for Dummies

By: W. Doyle Gentry
Narrated by: Brett Barry
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Publisher's summary

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. Happiness For Dummies is your one-stop, easy-to-follow guide to being happy and living your best life.
  • ©2009 Wiley Publishing, Inc. (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers
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    just plain bad

    Spends most of the book describing what happiness is, very little time on what one should do to obtain it, and when it does get into how to go about obtaining it it's just plain bad advice.

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