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Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out | 
 enlarge | Author: Marci Shimoff
Creator: Carol Kline
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  171 reviews
Sales Rank: 1305
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 141654772X
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9781416547723
ASIN: 141654772X
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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What would it take to make you happy? A fulfilling career, a big bank account, or the perfect mate? What if it didn't take anything to make you happy? What if you could experience happiness from the inside out -- no matter what's going on in your life?In Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, transformational expert Marci Shimoff offers a breakthrough approach to being happy, one that doesn't depend on achievements, goals, money, relationships, or anything else "out there." Most books on happiness tell you to find the things that make you happy and do more of them. Although there's nothing wrong with that, it won't bring you the kind of deep and lasting happiness most people long for -- the kind you'll never lose, no matter what happens in your life. Based on cutting-edge research and knowledge from the world's leading experts in the fields of positive psychology and neurophysiology, plus interviews with 100 truly happy people, this life-changing book provides a powerful, proven 7-step program that will enable you to be happier right now -- no matter where you start. Studies show that each of us has a "happiness setpoint" -- a fixed range of happiness we tend to return to throughout our life -- that's approximately 50 percent genetic and 50 percent learned. In the same way you'd crank up the thermostat to get comfortable on a chilly day, you can actually raise your happiness set-point! The holistic 7-step program at the heart of Happy for No Reason encompasses Happiness Habits for all areas of life: personal power, mind, heart, body, soul, purpose, and relationships. In these pages you'll discover moving and remarkable first-person stories of people who have applied these steps to their own lives and have become Happy for No Reason. You'll read phenomenal tales from a former drug dealer turned minister, a hit filmmaker, and a famous actress who escaped a "family curse," as well as stories from doctors, mothers, teachers, and business executives. You'll learn practical strategies that will help you experience happiness from the inside out. You don't have to have happy genes, win the lottery, or lose twenty pounds. By the time you finish this book, you will know how to experience sustained happiness for the rest of your life.
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 Great Book! August 22, 2008
Easy read and inspriational. Another book on this topic that I recommend is Living The Secret Everyday: My Secret Workbookgiving you all the tools to find the happiness you want. Also a must read!
Happy On The Inside Creates Bliss On The Outside August 15, 2008
I have known for along time that money or things won't bring you happiness. If you are an unhappy person you will likely be even more unhappy if you some how happen to stumble on more money. Being happy is a choice and is sometimes easier said then done.
The importance of choosing happiness can not be underestimated because it is the only true path to a wealthy, healthy and inspired life. Sorry to be the Grinch that stole Christmas but the new Mercedes and big house just isn't going to do it for you. That's the bad news.
The good news is that choosing happiness will in fact increase your odds substantially in drawing to you anything you desire in life and that is why I love Marci's book. Happy For No Reason gives you the tools and strategies on how to choose and remain happy.
I think a book like this should be included as mandatory reading material for any college or university courses. Can you imagine what the world would be like if we all had to study happiness?
I get happier just thinking about the possibilities.
Bob Burnham co-author of 101 Reasons Why You Must Write A Book: How to Make A Six Figure Income by Writing and Publishing Your Own Book
 Almost Perfect August 4, 2008
If you're looking for a way to actually learn how to raise your happiness set-point, this book will tell you how to do it. It's full of eye-opening research and may help you pull the plug on an endless quest for happiness in this life via the wrong means. It offers an easy reading style of uplifting information, a few stories ala the "Chicken Book" series, and just plain interesting research which we can all benefit from. To retain what you learn, there are exercises and action steps included--lots of different methods and suggestions, however, but it helps that Marci included a section at the end detailing them. It's a handy reference tool so you'll know where to start.
I really enjoyed this book. What prevents me from awarding it five stars is simply that, to be concerned with true happiness, I think you need to consider what happens after this life. No amount of mere satisfaction, or what we perceive as happiness, can ensure a happy afterlife. (If this doesn't concern you, skip the rest!) It needs a final chapter called, "What's Next?" (or some such thing) to address the facts of death and eternity--and how to prepare for them. This life is just a blink--eternity is forever! Maybe I'm just a stickler for little things like vast eons of time that will never end--and of course not all will agree on how to prepare for that eternity. I suspect Marci adheres to the
Christian approach, but she sticks safely to middle ground. I can honestly say that this was my only disappointment with the book. There is a great deal of interesting data, and it is presented smoothly and with humor and insight. As others here have noted, you won't regret reading it.
Inspiring and brilliant July 29, 2008
This book provides brilliantly clear, no-nonsense, down-to-earth practical insight into what really makes happiness possible for everyone. This is a must-read for all the successful entrepreneurs and senior execs I coach who want to be happy now for the right reasons!
Covers the Subject! July 28, 2008
The author's 7-step approach with the stories, exercises and illustrations surely does show you how to be happy with the theme of the book that it must come from within. This reminds me of one of my favorite books, Living The Secret Everyday: My Secret Workbook. This deals with happiness through the Law of Attraction and it sure works....
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