Beyond Happiness

The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction

De: Dr. Jennifer Guttman

Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne

Are you happy? Nearly half of adults worldwide—40 percent—would say “no”. Even when we possess it, happiness can be a fleeting emotion. It’s natural that we should desire something longer lasting.

In Beyond Happiness: The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction, psychologist Dr. Jennifer Guttman guides listeners in living a deeply fulfilling life by aiming for a kind of contentment that is more sustainable than happiness.

Having endured a number of life-altering challenges, Dr. Guttman knows firsthand how transient happiness can be. She spent nine years battling medical professionals to receive care for her son, whose long undiagnosed ailment eventually led to extensive heart surgery. Next, she faced life-threatening health issues of her own and, soon after, her father’s death. Unexpectedly, she came out stronger and more content. But how, exactly?

Dr. Guttman analyzed the steps she took to persist in the face of adversity and to remain optimistic despite the obstacles she had to overcome. She subsequently shared these actionable techniques with clients suffering from depression, anxiety, feelings of unlovability, and feelings of existential despair. The tools that had helped her helped them.

In Beyond Happiness, Dr. Guttman empowers listeners to achieve lifetime satisfaction by employing six techniques that can be practiced and even mastered in the comfort of your own home:

1. Avoiding assumptions
2. Reducing people-pleasing behaviors
3. Facing fears
4. Making decisions
5. Closing out tasks
6. Active self-reinforcement

When coalesced, Dr. Guttman’s techniques will buttress feelings of inherent lovability, defiant resilience, patience, authenticity, and self-confidence. She provides clear-cut strategies and tangible steps that can be easily incorporated into everyday life.

Engaging and enlightening, Beyond Happiness: The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction offers a user-friendly, practical approach not only to surviving life’s pitfalls but to thriving with a durable, balanced, sustainable level of contentment.

©2022 Sustainable Life Satisfaction, LLC (P)2022 Audible Originals LLC

A beautiful surprise

I received so many nuggets from this book! I loved the topics and how they were broken down with examples and strategies.

understand my life better

relay good book and recommended to anyone, thech you to many tools in the present life for people

Let It Stay! Awesome Book

Beyond Happiness: The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction by Dr. Jennifer Guttman
6h 28m narrated by Bernadette Dunne, 256 pages

Genre: Personal Success, Self-Help, Nonfiction

Features: Perseverance, Stop People Please, Satisfaction, Social Media, Self-Concept: Self-Worth, Self-Confidence, Self-Efficacy Self-Respect, Belief in One's Inherent Lovability, Avoid Assumptions, Reducing People Pleasing Behaviors, Face Your Fears, Make Decisions, Following Through - Starting is Easy Finishing is Hard, Closing Out Tasks,
Active Self-Reinforcement, Thinking Errors, Magnifying and Minimizing, Patience, Frustration Tolerance, Overthinking, Rubber-Band Method, Self Talk, Not Rescuing Your Children, Anxiety, Treat Yourself Well, Habit Formation, Types of Resilience

Rating as a movie: PG-13

My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟❤️

My thoughts: This book was in my Audible library, and I discovered it was going to expire in the Included catalog in 9 hours, so I spent my night reading this book. It was a very good read, and I am saddened to know I can't reread it without using a credit or paying $10-$28. One of the best books I've read on the topic, better than Atomic Habits, as this book focuses on that too.

Recommend to others?: Absolutely!

Now I always say I’m looking for lifetime satisfaction instead of happiness

I believe in setting the right goals for the right outcomes and Dr. Guttman’s book sets the reader up for success from the start by targeting lifetime satisfaction, not happiness.

I’ve been using the strategies Dr. Guttman lays out in this book and have found myself feeling more empowered and confident, which opens me up to greater contentment. Highly recommend!

Great job

I do really like all the details , performance and enjoyed a lot,, very obvious to feel the great effort to do such a nice book like this,, highly recommended,, I will listen to it again and again,, Thank you Dr.Jennifer,, hope that I will be lucky to meet you some day,, It’s me Dr.Amel

Amazing Self-Help Book!

This book helped me understand the basics of achieving lifetime satisfaction. Throughout my life, I’ve strived to achieve happiness; this taught me to strive for satisfaction. I learned that “happiness” isn’t the end goal and will only set me up for disappointment. I really enjoyed the tips and tricks on improving my daily life; it was truly motivational. I always found myself to be a people-pleaser, and this helped me understand that I won’t achieve the results I’m looking for. I’m an avid audible listener, and the narrator often has a voice that I can’t even finish the book. The narrator’s voice from Beyond Happiness was the icing on the cake; she has the most calming presence, and she’s almost motherly. I highly recommend this book!

good tips

I enjoyed the concepts ideas and examples of this podcast. It was easy to understand too.

This Will Actually Help You

True tips and advice that is actually helpful. I will be saving this to refer back to. Well done. Highly recommend!

Informative

I love how her thoughts help me believe in myself better. I’ll apply them to improve my life.

Great book

The book was informative and the author does a good job explaining and giving examples on how to improve your day to day life. This title motivates you to always finish what you start from small to larger things.