Happiness for Dummies

By: W. Doyle Gentry

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins

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.

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