Happy for No Reason

The 7 Steps to Being Happier Right Now

By: Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline, Jack Canfield

Narrated by: Marci Shimoff

Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

2009 Audie Award Finalist for Personal Development

What would it take to make you happy? A fulfilling career, a big bank account, or the perfect mate? What if it didn't take anything to make you happy? What if you could experience happiness from the inside out: no matter what's going on in your life?

Studies show that each of us has a happiness set-point: a fixed range of happiness we tend to return to throughout our life that's approximately 50-percent genetic and 50-percent learned. In the same way you'd crank up the thermostat to get comfortable on a chilly day, you can actually reprogram your happiness set-point to a higher level of peace and well-being. This life-changing program shows you how!

In Happy for No Reason, transformational expert and best-selling author Marci Shimoff reveals a remarkable program, incorporating the latest findings in positive psychology, moving real-life stories and powerful tools and techniques that will raise your happiness set-point and enable you to experience more unconditional happiness in your life: starting today.

Download the accompanying reference guide.

©2008 Marci Shimoff (P)2008 Simon and Schuster, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Marci Shimoff is one of the most compelling people I've ever known. I'm happy she's shared her wisdom with all of us in Happy for No Reason." (Marianne Williamson)
" Happy for No Reason offers seven clear, powerful, and effective steps you can practice to be happier right now!" (John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus)

Pure Happiness

Loved this book ♥️♥️♥️♥️ knowing you don’t need a reason to be happy even though we have many reasons to be HAPPY !!

This book delivers!!

This is the best book I have come across in terms of practicality. Throughout the audio she pauses so that you can do the exercise right then in stead of "doing it later". The steps are easy and make a lot of sense. I will be purhcasing this in hardcover as well for my library. If you are looking for ways to create some joy in your life this is the book for you!!

happy Happiness

This is a non-stop listen type of book. It makes you feel good just listening to it. Plus the PDF files she talks about, you can download for free on the book's website. I guarantee you will listen to it more than once.

Great Book!

Thanks Marci and Carol for creating this book! I appreciate it very much! Great job!

Yes, worth the credit and the listen

Its a good offshoot book from the Secret movie and I like her presentation. She isn't trying to force you to belief in the Secret or new thought type thinking but the possitive attitude principles and examples are good support to help you in the Self Help series of books. If you become even a tad more happier after listening and using this book, then that is worth far more then the credit, so i say check it out fellow self helpers...

great practical writing about shifting your mindse

very helpful in cultivating a mindset shift and beautifully read by the authors and others.

Credit Remorse

This is just basic common sense with a lot of advice you can get from 10,000 other self help books out there. I basically used a credit because it kept showing up in my recommendations. The book is kinda boring. sorry

All you need to be happy in one place

What did you love best about Happy for No Reason?

Absolutely great book. You can find most of the information included here in a variety of books. For some reason, I'm caught up in reading several of these types of books at the same time. But Marci Shimoff makes sure that you have all of the tools in the same place. I also love that this book points to the scientific backup for happiness. Twenty years ago this would have been consider "woo-woo" stuff. Now the federal government pays for treatments in some of these things because of the documented history. Read it. Just reading this book will rewire your brain for happiness.

Which scene was your favorite?

As a 12 stepper, I love that one of the final stories is about finding happiness in 12 step recovery in AlAnon. If for nothing else, I would highly recommend reading this book. ITs a tale of recovery done right.

Thank you.

This book has saved my life. I've read it 4 times now! Thank you Marci!

was not very helpful for me

alot of material from other people, programs, no real measurements of her life happiness