Detailing the author's traumatic life events, this work is meant to inspire the reader to overcome no matter what has been experienced in life. It is intended to be short and concise, but detailed enough to paint the picture and uplift others. Actually meant to be 10 short chapters, the author stopped at 9 but had every intent to write the 10th chapter. However, one evening while thinking about the content for the 10th chapter, the Universe revealed the significance of the number 9. The number 9 is the number of Universal Love, spiritual enlightenment, spiritual awakening, leading by positive examples, self-sacrifice, life purpose, inner strength, and higher perspective. This work undeniably represents the completion of the author's spiritual awakening and the Universe wanted the title to be just that. So, coming full circle, hopefully after reading this the reader either begins, continues, or reaches his or her own spiritual awakening.

Choose Happiness! is a treatise on Practical Perspectivism, a way of seeing the world, and a practice of living in it, elaborated by Jeffrey Zahn, MD., a recognized happy person, practicing anesthesiologist, family guy, and all around connoisseur of the simpler things in life. Easy to understand and put into effect, Choose Happiness! describes the Ten Precepts of Practical Perspectivism and explains how to put them to use in your everyday life as a means to eke more happiness out of each day.

Nell W. Mohney, adapted from the Introduction: "In seminars I have conducted over a thirty-year period, I have discovered that the quality most wanted by Americans is happiness. Many of those seminar participants drove to the seminars in luxury cars, and they looked well fed and well dressed. Yet, individually, they often expressed disappointment with life and admitted to having a feeling of emptiness. They wanted, and even felt entitled to, more happiness.... I am one of those who truly believe that the basic answer to happiness is a spiritual one. We are made for God, and as Saint Augustine said, “Our hearts are restless ‘til they rest in thee.” All parts of our personalities are drawn to wholeness and happiness when Christ is resident within. In studying the life of Christ, I remembered that although Jesus was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief, more than anything else he was a person of joy and happiness.... Even his purpose in coming into the world is revealed in John 10:10: “I came that they might have life and have it abundantly.” This abundant life, I believe, is not just in the world to come but in the here and now, where a series of committed choices can cause your spirit to sing."

Now featuring new research and the most current information on the science of happiness, this book presents an outline of the nine choices happy people consistently make. Also included are tools for self-assessment to allow readers to measure happiness-and to find out what might be holding them back from having more of it. Insightful, intimate, and inspiring, How We Choose to Be Happy lets readers learn by example, and take substantial steps toward joining the ranks of the extremely happy.

Choose to be Happy is designed to help individuals understand how stress is created and how it affects the body. Once a person is able to understand how daily experiences can contribute to stress, he or she will want to learn how to deal with stress in a positive manner that will allow the negative stress to be turned into a positive motivator. Through daily techniques, you will be able to apply stress reducers on a datily basis. Examples of how to flip negative stress into positive stress is examined through Robert's life experiences.

Passionate Bible teacher Kay Warren shows women--even those who battle depression and anxiety--that a joy-filled life is within their reach.

#1 Wall Street Journal Best Seller USA Today Best Seller Amazon Best Book of the Year TED Talk sensation - over 3 million views! The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year. The path to personal and professional fulfillment is rarely straight. Ask anyone who has achieved his or her biggest goals or whose relationships thrive and you’ll hear stories of many unexpected detours along the way. What separates those who master these challenges and those who get derailed? The answer is agility—emotional agility. Emotional agility is a revolutionary, science-based approach that allows us to navigate life’s twists and turns with self-acceptance, clear-sightedness, and an open mind. Renowned psychologist Susan David developed this concept after studying emotions, happiness, and achievement for more than twenty years. She found that no matter how intelligent or creative people are, or what type of personality they have, it is how they navigate their inner world—their thoughts, feelings, and self-talk—that ultimately determines how successful they will become. The way we respond to these internal experiences drives our actions, careers, relationships, happiness, health—everything that matters in our lives. As humans, we are all prone to common hooks—things like self-doubt, shame, sadness, fear, or anger—that can too easily steer us in the wrong direction. Emotionally agile people are not immune to stresses and setbacks. The key difference is that they know how to adapt, aligning their actions with their values and making small but powerful changes that lead to a lifetime of growth. Emotional agility is not about ignoring difficult emotions and thoughts; it’s about holding them loosely, facing them courageously and compassionately, and then moving past them to bring the best of yourself forward. Drawing on her deep research, decades of international consulting, and her own experience overcoming adversity after losing her father at a young age, David shows how anyone can thrive in an uncertain world by becoming more emotionally agile. To guide us, she shares four key concepts that allow us to acknowledge uncomfortable experiences while simultaneously detaching from them, thereby allowing us to embrace our core values and adjust our actions so they can move us where we truly want to go. Written with authority, wit, and empathy, Emotional Agility serves as a road map for real behavioral change—a new way of acting that will help you reach your full potential, whoever you are and whatever you face.