Choosing Happiness - Life & Soul Essentials

Australia's foremost self-help author gathers her wisdom into a comprehensive volume for today's time-poor readers - a modern-day bible of personal and social development. The message of this book is very simple. Right now you can be happier. * You can change the way you think about yourself and other people. * You can increase self-confidence and self-trust. * You can build better relationships - including those at work. * You can manage your life and time. * You can learn to use your strengths. * You can be much kinder - to yourself and others. * You can live your life like it really matters. This book shows you how. 'Stephanie Dowrick makes the hard questions simple; she makes the impossible real and possible. Her wisdom is contagious. If anyone can cause a happiness revolution, she can.'- Paul Wilson, author of the 'Calm' books The message of this book is very simple: Right now, you can be happier!More "things" won't do it. Even a great relationship may not save you. In Choosing Happiness the focus is on the only place where real change can happen: in how you see yourself and relate to other people. The book uses practical guidance and warm, realistic inspiration to show clearly that while you can't always choose what happens in your life, you can choose your responses, values and behaviors – and the results are life changing.Choosing Happiness offers skills and insights across all areas, from your most intimate relationships to your friendships, extended family, work, and community. Psychologically positive and astute, it also looks at the big spiritual questions that let you value your life rather than just "spending" it. Small changes bring big results. Beautifully packaged, with a flexibind spine and a red ribbon placeholder, this book is like the wise, kind friend you can't wait to return to again and again. A celebration and summation of Stephanie Dowrick's life's work, Choosing Happiness is a modern day bible of philosophical and psychological thought. Focusing on strengths and opportunities not problems, it tells you what you need to know to enjoy your life. Focusing on strengths and opportunities, not problems, this book tells you what you need to know to enjoy your life. It is a bible of philosophical and psychological thought. Title from ebook title screen (viewed on Apr. 26, 2006).