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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 happinessLive the life that you wantOvercome common obstacles to happinessIdentify your strengths and virtuesImprove your emotional and spiritual lifeCreate meaningful social ties and learn to be aloneFind the silver liningComplete 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.
W. Doyle Gentry, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, a distinguished Fellow in the American Psychological Association, and the Founding Editor of the Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
Introduction 1Part I: Defining Happiness 9Chapter 1: Anyone Can Be Happy 11Chapter 2: The Recipe for Happiness 27Chapter 3: Knowing What Happiness Isn’t 39Chapter 4: Seeing Happiness as a Sign, Not a Symptom 49Part II: Personality Attributes That Lead to Happiness 59Chapter 5: Optimism 61Chapter 6: Hardiness 73Chapter 7: Conscientiousness 87Part III: Behaving Your Way toward Happiness 97Chapter 8: Getting into Flow 99Chapter 9: Finding Benefit in Life’s Challenges 113Chapter 10: Living a Coherent Lifestyle 125Chapter 11: Making a Daily Confession 137Chapter 12: Putting On a Happy Face 147Part IV: Striking the Right Balance 159Chapter 13: Hassles versus Uplifts 161Chapter 14: Structure versus Freedom 171Chapter 15: Work versus Play 183Chapter 16: Socialization versus Solitude 197Chapter 17: Selfishness versus Generosity 207Part V: Achieving Happiness in Key Relationships 217Chapter 18: At Work 219Chapter 19: At Home 239Chapter 20: In Intimate Relationships 251Part VI: The Part of Tens 265Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Raise a Happy Child 267Chapter 22: Ten Roadblocks to Happiness 279Chapter 23: Ten Things You Can Do Today to Foster Happiness in Your Life 289Chapter 24: Ten Thoughts That Lead to Happiness 299Appendix: Resources 307Index 313