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Book review - Choosing Happier: How to be happy despite your circumstances, history or genes by Jem Friar
Our book review - Choosing Happier: How to be happy despite your circumstances, history or genes by Jem Friar
"A first class read and full of little hints and tips that can make a difference to the way you think and act but also demonstrates how if you change your outlook the affect it has on the people you share your life with.
The easy to understand sections have exercises and notes at the end of each chapter to reiterate what has been described and to take into your personnel life to make you HAPPIER.
The author uses case scenarios to demonstrate the point he is trying to get across and to question what is really important to make you happy, is it money, being surrounded by love or something else? Excellent references to further studies and self help references on the global network add to the teachings.
I have already adopted some of the techniques in the book for example when I wake up I make a short list of what I have to be grateful for and before I go to bed I make a list of my achievements for that day and it has improved my sleep and people have noticed I am more upbeat than normal. Just 2 little changes that have made a big impact.
If you want to be happier you need to read this book as there is a chapter on all the influences that can help you achieve that goal by adopting simple techniques."
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Book Description
Choosing Happier is a book about our potential for living a much happier life when we learn and practice some very simple but powerful habits and ways of looking at the world.
This book busts the modern happiness myths that assert that we can find lasting happiness through having more money, buying more things, or being famous, successful or powerful. Instead, it provides science-backed, actionable, effective, and simple practices that can make being happier a whole lot easier whoever and wherever you presently are. It turns out that our ability to be happy is not dependent on our circumstances – our degree of happiness is an inside job and something that we can influence and choose!
In its essence, this is a book of joy, for it combines ancient wisdom and modern positive psychology, valuable insights into why we have got lost in pursuing happiness but not finding it, powerful but simple practices that make it easy to turn this situation around, and all interwoven with inspiring and humorous quotes about happiness and life. Rather than this book just being an interesting read, it has been written in a way that encourages and enables the reader to actually increase their levels of authentic happiness. The author has even provided tools, MP3 meditations and an online community forum to support readers to make that shift into greater positivity with ease.
Being happier is not the only end goal of this book. It has been shown that happier people are more creative, successful, productive, healthy, resilient and they have better relationships too – what’s not to like about these additional outcomes? In the bigger picture, happier people are more content, kind and generous. The more authentically happy people there are around the planet, the better off we all are.
If you read this book and do the exercises regularly you will develop empowering “happy habits” that will naturally increase your contentedness and joy, while reducing the time that you spend stuck in negative emotions. Don’t put learning these skills and habits off and remain in unnecessary unhappiness when you could become one of those people who seem to be able to cruise through life’s challenges with a smile on their face.
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