What if you could change your life--without changing your life? Gretchen had a good marriage, two healthy daughters, and work she loved--but one day, stuck on a city bus, she realized that time was flashing by, and she wasn’t thinking enough about the things that really mattered. “I should have a happiness project,” she decided. She spent the next year test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. Each month, she pursued a different set of resolutions: go to sleep earlier, quit nagging, forget about results, or take time to be silly. Bit by bit, she began to appreciate and amplify the happiness that already existed in her life. Written with humour and insight, Gretchen’s story will inspire you to start your own happiness project. Now in a beautiful, expanded edition, Gretchen offers a wealth of new material including happiness paradoxes and practical tips on many daily matters: being a more light-hearted parent, sticking to a fitness routine, getting your sweetheart to do chores without nagging, coping when you forget someone’s name and more.

Discover the Path to Lasting Joy with Everyday Magic Embark on a transformative journey that ventures beyond fleeting pleasures and momentary highs with "The Happiness Workbook: Daily Rituals for a Joyful Life". This luminous guide is your roadmap to a life of sustained joy, integrating timeless wisdom with modern science to illuminate the steps you can take every day to nourish your soul. Marvel as the Introduction sparks the first flame on your path, inviting you to redefine what happiness means personally to you. Then, Chapter 2 delves into the heart of joy, blending research with introspective questions that connect you to the wellspring of contentment within. Understanding happiness has never been more inviting and practical. Feel your heart swell with Chapter 3's immersion into gratitude, as you're gently guided on how to infuse your life with thanks--even amid turbulence. The subsequent chapters unfurl with equal grace, each presenting tools to cultivate positivity, mindfulness, and compassionate self-reflection that promises to uplift and inspire. Display courage as you embrace your inherent vulnerability in Chapter 6, learning to silence the inner critic and replace it with a voice of nurturing support. This workbook is not just a source of insight--it's a daily companion, with exercises designed to fit seamlessly into your life, making joy a habit rather than a fleeting encounter. Connect with the world around you in profound new ways in Chapter 7, discovering how the bonds formed with loved ones can become conduits of happiness. And be amazed as the final chapters unveil secrets on how to embrace change, celebrate life's small wins, and nourish your body to become an abode of well-being. Whether you wish to reclaim joy or deepen the happiness already present in your life, "The Happiness Workbook" is a treasure trove of meaningful practices. It stands as a testament that the gentle art of daily ritual, when done with intent, holds the power to transform an ordinary life into an extraordinary one. Take this workbook in hand, and step into the light of your brightest life.

Do you want to find happiness? Or to be one of those people who it seems nothing can get down? This new Teach Yourself Workbook doesn't just tell you how to be happy. It accompanies you every step of the way, with diagnostic tools, goal-setting charts, practical exercises, and many more features ideal for people who want a more active style of learning. The book starts by helping you identify the factors currently constraining your happiness, and their causes. It then helps you set specific goals to improve on; as you progress through the book, you will be able to keep checking your progress against these goals. Specially created exercises, using the tools of NLP, hypnotherapy and cognitive psychology, will help you to boost your happiness so that you can feel happy whatever life throws at you.

"Everyone wants happiness in life." The Happiness Workbook is an insightful and engaging guide to help search for the most fundamental questions that plague all of us: Can I be happy? Will I get my perfect job? Will I find the love of my life? With a pen and paper you will be able to follow the priceless self-exploratory steps outlined in the workbook to discover the keys to happiness in your own life. Trotting through life without giving much thought as to our goals and what makes us happy, this guide shows us just what we need to plot a steady course to happiness. In the journey for these answers the Happiness Workbook will first guide you to discover: What Are You Looking For? and Where Did You Go Wrong? Next it will help to determine your needs versus your wants and pass your own self-assessment. Through this self discovery process you will learn that life is a teacher, that "F" is for Feedback, Not Failure and that ideas are tools. "The biggest lesson you will learn through this book is that the ideas you have are merely tools to guide you in everything that you do. If you don't use them, they are wasted. For example, if you need to pound a nail into a piece of wood, your first idea is to buy a hammer. It seems obvious as an example, but it is a good idea. However, if you don't use the hammer to pound in that nail, what was the sense in expending your energy and expense in its purchase?" Full of similar clever analogies that are used to compare events in your own life Metzger guides you to a higher level of happy thought and existence, maintained vivid in your mind through these analogies. From your business life, your social life, your personal relationships and your own well-being, the castle you will construct is in effect your future.

Do you want to find happiness? Or to be one of those people who it seems nothing can get down? This new Teach Yourself Workbook doesn't just tell you how to be happy. It accompanies you every step of the way, with diagnostic tools, goal-setting charts, practical exercises, and many more features ideal for people who want a more active style of learning. The book starts by helping you identify the factors currently constraining your happiness, and their causes. It then helps you set specific goals to improve on; as you progress through the book, you will be able to keep checking your progress against these goals. Specially created exercises, using the tools of NLP, hypnotherapy and cognitive psychology, will help you to boost your happiness so that you can feel happy whatever life throws at you.

Is happiness an impossible goal or a simple choice? In this concise book, readers can have fun exploring deep life questions and design their ideal lives around happiness. This book supports people internalizing their individual happiness and helps them move to a choice-filled, limitless, authentic state. It creates a challenging and fun space to discover, choose, embrace, and expand happiness. The book is designed to offer a wide variety of methods to enhance and achieve happiness especially through experiences focused on reading, drawing, speaking, visualizing, writing, and acting. Readers interested in creating or strengthening their happiness mindset won't be disappointed. Happiness can always expand, and those looking to increase their happiness will find many novel ideas to consider. This book is a supportive guide on anyone's happiness journey.

Are you looking for a better life—one filled with true contentment and joy? Everyone wants to be happy, but somewhere along the way, we fall into “traps” that prevent us from reaching our potential, our goals, and the lives we want. Sure to be a classic in the self-help genre, Practicing Happiness utilizes a cutting-edge transdiagnostic approach at the forefront of contemporary behavioral therapy to help you break free from these psychological traps, once and for all. In this important and groundbreaking workbook, internationally-recognized mindfulness expert Ruth Baer discusses the four most common psychological traps that people get stuck in: rumination, avoidance, emotion-driven behavior, and self-criticism. To help you get past these traps, Baer provides powerful, proven-effective mindfulness strategies, exercises, and worksheets to guide you, step-by-step, to the life that you deserve. Chapter by chapter, you will learn how to apply these mindfulness skills in everyday situations. And with practice, you’ll find yourself taking control of your thoughts and feelings in a new way. Instead of falling back on familiar habits, such as self-criticism, you will learn to foster an attitude of kindness and curiosity toward both yourself and the world around you. By following the exercises and tips outlined in this clear, helpful guide, you will learn to truly transform your mind—and your life!