The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

by Sonja Lyubomirsky

Learn how to achieve the happiness you deserve

"A guide to sustaining your newfound contentment." —Psychology Today

"Lyubomirsky's central point is clear: a significant portion of what is called happiness . . . is up for grabs. Taking some pages out of the positive psychology playbook, she coaches readers on how to snag it." —The New York Review of Books

You see here a different kind of happiness book. The How of Happiness is a comprehensive guide to understanding the elements of happiness based on years of groundbreaking scientific research. It is also a practical, empowering, and easy-to-follow workbook, incorporating happiness strategies, excercises in new ways of thinking, and quizzes for understanding our individuality, all in an effort to help us realize our innate potential for joy and ways to sustain it in our lives. Drawing upon years of pioneering research with thousands of men and women, The How of Happiness is both a powerful contribution to the field of positive psychology and a gift to people who have sought to take their happiness into their own hands.

• ISBN10: 0143114956
• ISBN13: 9780143114956
• Publish Date: 30 December 2008 (first published 1 December 2007)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Penguin USA
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 384
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780143114956

Reviews

[Hillary]

If you have been following this blog, you will know that the Dr prescribed me Abilify, and it changed my life. I am now losing weight getting in shape and have the motivation and self-efficiency needed to go after my goals. When I first read this a couple of years ago, I wasn't in a place that was necessary to be happy really. Now that I am I wanted to reread this and see if I could get more out of it and I did!

The one that I resonated most with was the being in Flow one. I realize that when I am working on this blog that I lose all track of time, and it seems the whole day goes by before I realized I haven't eaten or got up from my desk. I get in Flow when I am also reading. Unless it is a book, I hate.  But mostly this blog is my life. It is my baby, and I REALLY love working on it.

The second one that resonated with me was the taking care of your body one. I realized though I 290 pounds it 's hard to work out and to work from home it 's hard to convince myself to get out of my pyjamas I really enjoy putting on makeup and getting dressed. This does not mean I get dressed to the 9s every day but once I realized how happy it makes me I do it far more often than I used to.

The third one was going after your goals. Like I said before I now have the mojo and the self-efficiency to do this so being able to crush all my goals off of my to-do list at the end of the day makes me happy. I use the desire map planner, and this has changed my life in a most revolutionary way. I now do what makes me happy and so far this year except with a few blips here and there I have been very satisfied with the way things have worked out.

I highly encourage people to get this book if you want to up your happiness quotient.



This review was originally posted on Adventures in Never Never Land