The Nine Rooms Of Happiness

Author : Lucy Danziger
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401395023
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nine Rooms of Happiness written by Lucy Danziger and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Room Are You In? Ask any woman how she's feeling. Even when things look pretty darn great from the outside, chances are that at least one thing (and it may seem minor to others) is nagging at her, making her feel less than spectacular, bringing her down: I'm too fat. My husband doesn't help enough around the house. My friend is going to be mad if I don't call her back. Why don't my kids try harder at school? My job is less than inspiring. Whatever happened to that old boyfriend, the one who got away? Whether it's the size of our thighs or our bank accounts, there always seems to be something that isn't measuring up to our high standards--and we let the dissatisfaction spill over into other areas of our lives, distracting us from taking pleasure in everything that's going right. In The Nine Rooms of Happiness, Lucy Danziger, editor in chief of Self magazine, and women's-health psychiatrist Catherine Birndorf use the metaphor of a house to release us from this phenomenon. In this house, the living room is where we deal with friendships and our social life; the bedroom is where we explore intimacy, romance, relationships, and sex; the bathroom is for issues relating to health and body image; the kitchen is for nourishment and the division of chores; and so on. Our "inner house" can have eight beautifully designed, neat and tidy rooms, and one messy one, and still we focus on the mess. The Nine Rooms of Happiness pinpoints common self-destructive patterns of behavior and offers key processes that will help readers clean up their emotional architecture. After each room is "clean," Danziger and Birndorf show us how we can spend time on ourselves figuring out what is most meaningful to us--finding larger passion and purpose that makes returning to the rest of our house a pleasure, no matter what calamity or mess awaits. The result? After reading this book you'll think differently about the things that are bringing you down and be able to live a happier, more joy filled life, in every room of your emotional house. From the outside, you'd think I have it all: beautiful house, wonderful children, devoted husband. But am I happy? I think so. There's nothing that has gone terribly wrong. There's no reason for me not to be happy. But I don't feel happy so much as I feel I'm just going through the motions. Sometimes I have the feeling that there's more and I just haven't found it yet. But what . . . and how dare I want more? Isn't all that I have enough? --from The Nine Rooms of Happiness

Author : Lucy Danziger
Publisher : Voice
ISBN 13 : 9780316372770
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nine Rooms of Happiness written by Lucy Danziger and published by Voice. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editor-in-chief of "Self" magazine, along with one of its top columnists, offers this metaphor to understanding happiness via the rooms of a house. "Nine Rooms" is an entirely new, exciting approach to the problems that haunt most women.

Author : Valerie Althoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950499069
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nine Rooms of Your Life written by Valerie Althoff and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a user's manual for the curious human being. It is a unique guide that directs the reader away from the outer world to the mind and heart, where life is really lived. We see the world as we think it is, not what it really is. This is not good or bad, but it is the result of what we've learned and come to believe about the world and who we are, or what our minds tell us is so. There are nine major areas or rooms that make up the house of your whole life. The unique metaphor of rooms is used to clearly illustrate and explain how to achieve a fulfilling and balanced life. Each room feels different because its purpose and energy is unique. How you design and occupy each room is unique to you. Understanding the value and purpose of each room is critical to build and maintain the strong foundation that helps move you into and through the challenges that are part of a human life. Each room not only helps you pinpoint old beliefs, habits and patterns that no longer serve, it also shows you how to release them and develop new and improved ways of being. This is called personal growth. Being aware of what makes up the house that is your life puts you in the driver's seat. It empowers you to design a life for yourself that is fulfilling and in balance . . . a life that just feels good! If you're someone who's done with just going through the motions of life and wants to know more about who you are and why you're here, this book is for you.

Author : Ingo Schulze
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307424243
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 33 Moments of Happiness written by Ingo Schulze and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing, fabulously bizarre debut collection of short stories by prize-winning German writer Ingo Schulze, author of Simple Stories. These thirty-three macabre, often comical short pieces revolve around moments of odd bliss–moments seized by characters who have found ways to conquer the bleakness of everyday life in the chaotic world of post-communist Russia. Peopled by Mafia gunmen, desperate young prostitutes, bewildered foreign businessmen, and even a trio of hungry devils, the stories are by turns tragic and bleakly funny. From a sly retelling of the legend of St. Nicholas featuring a rich American named Nick, to a lavish gourmet feast in which the young female cook ends up as the main dish, these stories are above all playful and even surreal–and many of them are masterful tributes to Russian writers from Gogol to Nabokov. Translated by John E. Woods.

Author : Martin Seligman
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857884132
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authentic Happiness written by Martin Seligman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important, entertaining book, one of the world's most celebrated psychologists, Martin Seligman, asserts that happiness can be learned and cultivated, and that everyone has the power to inject real joy into their lives. In Authentic Happiness, he describes the 24 strengths and virtues unique to the human psyche. Each of us, it seems, has at least five of these attributes, and can build on them to identify and develop to our maximum potential. By incorporating these strengths - which include kindness, originality, humour, optimism, curiosity, enthusiasm and generosity -- into our everyday lives, he tells us, we can reach new levels of optimism, happiness and productivity. Authentic Happiness provides a variety of tests and unique assessment tools to enable readers to discover and deploy those strengths at work, in love and in raising children. By accessing the very best in ourselves, we can improve the world around us and achieve new and lasting levels of authentic contentment and joy.

Author : Nick Powdthavee
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848312245
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Happiness Equation written by Nick Powdthavee and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is marriage worth £200,000 a year? Why will having children make you unhappy? Why does happiness from winning the lottery take two years to arrive? Why does time heal the pain of divorce or the death of a loved one – but not unemployment? Everybody wants to be happy. But how much happiness – precisely – will each life choice bring? Should I get married? Am I really going to feel happy about the career that I picked? How can we decide not only which choice is better for us, but how much it's better for us? The result of new, unique research, The Happiness Equation brings to a general readership for the first time the new science of happiness economics. It describes how we can measure emotional reactions to different life experiences and present them in ways we can relate to. How, for instance, monetary values can be put on things that can't be bought or sold in the market – such as marriage, friendship, even death – so that we can objectively rank them in order of preference. It also explains why some things matter more to our happiness than others (like why seeing friends is worth more than a Ferrari) while others are worth almost nothing (like sunny weather). Nick Powdthavee – whose work on happiness has been discussed on both the Undercover Economist and Freakanomics blogs – brings cutting-edge research on how we value our happiness to a general audience, with a style that wears its learning lightly and is a joy to read.

Author : Karen Rauch Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684866048
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life written by Karen Rauch Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying the ancient Chinese practice of feng shui to modern life, the author reveals how carefully arranging items in the home can lead to remarkable results in love, career, and personal happiness. Original.

Author : Aaron L. Starr
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666774405
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Forget to Call Home written by Aaron L. Starr and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a hundred years old, Holocaust survivor Wolf Gruca turned to his grandson, Rabbi Aaron Starr, and asked, “Where was God?” Don’t Forget to Call Home is a grandson’s attempt to respond to a weeping grandfather, and it’s a clergyman’s effort to help the modern person deepen a relationship with the Divine. With warmth and wisdom, Rabbi Starr sets out to answer the question, “Where is God, and what does God want of us?” Perhaps God is no longer the Law Giver or Judge, the Warrior or even the Miracle Maker. Perhaps God is an Empty-Nester Parent, expecting us to live with gratitude, obligation, joy, and hope. Perhaps, like a loving parent whose children are now grown-up, God desires us to act like adults by emulating our Heavenly Parent. Perhaps, too, God and Grandpa are reminding us: “Don’t forget to call home.”

Author : Christine Carter, Ph.D.
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0553392069
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sweet Spot written by Christine Carter, Ph.D. and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to achieve more by doing less! Live in that zone you’ve glimpsed but can’t seem to hold on to—the sweet spot where you have the greatest strength, but also the greatest ease. Not long ago, Christine Carter, a happiness expert at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and a speaker, writer, and mother, found herself exasperated by the busyness of modern life: too many conflicting obligations and not enough time, energy, or patience to get everything done. She tried all the standard techniques—prioritizing, multitasking, delegating, even napping—but none really worked. Determined to create a less stressful life for herself—without giving up her hard-won career success or happiness at home—she road-tested every research-based tactic that promised to bring more ease into her life. Drawing on her vast knowledge of the latest research related to happiness, productivity, and elite performance, she followed every strategy that promised to give her more energy—or that could make her more efficient, creative, or intelligent. Her trials and errors are our reward. In The Sweet Spot, Carter shares the combination of practices that transformed her life from overwhelmed and exhausting to joyful, relaxed, and productive. From instituting daily micro-habits that save time to bigger picture shifts that convert stress into productive and creative energy, The Sweet Spot shows us how to • say “no” strategically and when to say “yes” with abandon • make decisions about routine things once to free our minds to focus on higher priorities • stop multitasking and gain efficiency • “take recess” in sync with the brain’s need for rest • use technology in ways that bolster, instead of sap, energy • increase your ratio of positive to negative emotions Complete with practical “easiest thing” tips for instant relief as well as stories from Carter’s own experience of putting The Sweet Spot into action, this timely and inspiring book will inoculate you against “The Overwhelm,” letting you in on the possibilities for joy and freedom that come when you stop trying to do everything right—and start doing the right things. ONE OF GREATER GOOD’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR “[For fans] of a certain kind of self-improvement book—the kind, like The Happiness Project or 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think or Getting Things Done, that offers up strategies for making certain areas of life work better without requiring that you embrace a new belief system.”—KJ Dell’Antonia, The New York Times (Motherlode blog) “A breath of fresh air . . . Based on personal experiments with living life in what she calls the ‘pressure cooker,’ Dr. Carter offers advice in easily digestible nuggets.”—Working Mother “Carter gives actionable ways to balance your life, your health, and your career. This book is packed with smart advice and hard-earned wisdom.”—Inc. “Learn more about escaping the ‘busyness trap’ and uncovering a happier, less stressed you.”—Shape “A highly readable, diligently researched advice book that offers concrete tips on how to get off the treadmill of busyness.”—Greater Good “Chock-full of concrete tips on how to sharpen your focus, improve your efficiency, and use technology to your advantage.”—The Week “Illuminates the simple and sustainable path toward a precious and happy balance.”—Deepak Chopra

Author : Mina Samuels
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145961657X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Run Like a Girl written by Mina Samuels and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large print.