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

by Sonja Lyubomirsky

Drawing on her own research with thousands of people, psychologist Lyubomirsky has pioneered a detailed yet easy-to-follow plan to increase happiness in our day-to-day lives--in the short and long term. This book that offers a guide to understanding what happiness is, and isn't, and what can be done to bring us all closer to the happy life we envision. Using more than a dozen happiness-increasing strategies, it offers a new way to understand our innate potential for joy and happiness as well as our ability to sustain it in our lives. Lyubomirsky's "happiness strategies" introduce readers to the concept of intentional activities that they can use to achieve a happier life, including exercises in optimism and how best to savor life's pleasures in the here and now. She also helps readers understand the obstacles to happiness as well as how to harness individual strengths to overcome them.--From publisher description.

• ISBN13: 9781594201486
• Publish Date: 27 December 2007 (first published 1 December 2007)
• Publish Status: Transferred
• Out of Print: 30 October 2009
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

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