Full Description
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
Complete with lists of ten ways to raise a happy child, ten common roadblocks to happiness, and ten personal habits to foster happiness, Happiness For Dummies is your one-stop, easy-to-follow guide to being happy and living your best life.
Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Defining Happiness 9
Chapter 1: Anyone Can Be Happy 11
Chapter 2: The Recipe for Happiness 27
Chapter 3: Knowing What Happiness Isn't 39
Chapter 4: Seeing Happiness as a Sign, Not a Symptom 49
Part II: Personality Attributes That Lead to Happiness 59
Chapter 5: Optimism 61
Chapter 6: Hardiness 73
Chapter 7: Conscientiousness 87
Part III: Behaving Your Way toward Happiness 97
Chapter 8: Getting into Flow 99
Chapter 9: Finding Benefit in Life's Challenges 113
Chapter 10: Living a Coherent Lifestyle 125
Chapter 11: Making a Daily Confession 137
Chapter 12: Putting On a Happy Face 147
Part IV: Striking the Right Balance 159
Chapter 13: Hassles versus Uplifts 161
Chapter 14: Structure versus Freedom 171
Chapter 15: Work versus Play 183
Chapter 16: Socialization versus Solitude 197
Chapter 17: Selfishness versus Generosity 207
Part V: Achieving Happiness in Key Relationships 217
Chapter 18: At Work 219
Chapter 19: At Home 239
Chapter 20: In Intimate Relationships 251
Part VI: The Part of Tens 265
Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Raise a Happy Child 267
Chapter 22: Ten Roadblocks to Happiness 279
Chapter 23: Ten Things You Can Do Today to Foster Happiness in Your Life 289
Chapter 24: Ten Thoughts That Lead to Happiness 299
Appendix: Resources 307
Index 313
