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How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People--Their Secrets, Their Stories | 
 enlarge | Authors: Rick Foster, Greg Hicks
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 5522
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 039952990X
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9780399529900
ASIN: 039952990X
Publication Date: June 1, 2004
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Product Description
Now featuring new research and the most current information on the science of happiness, this book presents an outline of the nine choices happy people consistently make.
Also included are tools for self-assessment to allow readers to measure happiness-and to find out what might be holding them back from having more of it. Insightful, intimate, and inspiring, How We Choose to Be Happy lets readers learn by example, and take substantial steps toward joining the ranks of the extremely happy.
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 Truly Better than any Anti-Depressants December 13, 2008
Kelli Jones
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After going through some tough times, I found this book at the local library and read it. It made such an amazing difference in my life, I ended up buying my own copy so that I could refer back to it often. Sometimes the "Pollyanna" mindset is thought of as a derogatory and naive way to view the world, but as this book so elegantly points out, we all have good and bad things happen to us, and it is just how you choose to deal with them that determines your state of happiness and optimism. This is a great book and is backed up with detailed empirical research.
Other excellent books to consider would be The Raw You by K.J. Cleveland, Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen, and You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay.
How We Choose To Be Happy September 22, 2008
R. Poor (New Hampshire)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Outstanding:
Down to earth, logical, relatable day to day, easy and even entertaining to read.
 Makes you think... July 6, 2008
Heather Kizewski (Amherst, Wisconsin)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book in essence touches on awareness. Being aware that we have the ability to choose our attitudes in life, and how having the right attitude can pay huge dividends. I liked the random quotes throughout this book and have written them down in journals so that I don't forget the insight that I gained.
Brilliant. Insightful. Enjoyable. I HAD to buy it. It's under my skin. November 12, 2007
Joanne Codling (Perth, WA, Australia)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I borrowed this, read it end-to-end, and had to buy it. There aren't many books I want to read again, or keep as a reference to use over and over. But this is one. I've read hundreds of non-fiction books and there are only about 20 books I can say have given me something that I will carry with me.
On a superficial level, just reading this book makes me feel good. I know it wasn't meant to be like that... but I feel sunny just hearing the stories--they're Good People, these Happy people. And stranger still, I've been lazy, and just read it, not 'worked it', or 'studied it', but nonetheless, there's been a shift. I've absorbed something. It's got to me. Dammit! This book makes ... Sense. Why, Why, didn't I know this all along?
It's under my skin and I'm better off than I was before I came across it. Do yourself a favour. Buy it, then buy one for your boss.
Sharing Nine Secrets to Ensuring a Happy Life September 17, 2007
Cynthia Sue Larson (San Francisco bay area, CA USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
HOW WE CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY dispels the myth that we have emotional set points and are stuck with whatever level of satisfaction we normally feel, in lives primarily influenced by luck of the draw.
Authors Foster and Hicks traveled the world to interview the happiest people referred to them in each town they visited, discovering that the happiest people in the world have made nine life choices in common. Significantly, it became clear that when these nine principles are adopted, they radically improve peoples' happiness in life regardless of what is going on around them.
The realizations in HOW WE CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY are so clearly stated with abundant examples of people who are merely cheerful, or in denial, rather than genuninely happy that their nine principles become more clearly outlined.
The big idea here is that happiness is a choice, or more precisely a series of choices, and when we choose to move our lives toward happiness by making changes to ourselves from the inside out, we can experience tremendous improvements in feelings of increased inner joy, peace and health.
Our health and wellbeing lies in our happiness... and when we realize that our happiness is a new way of life, this book becomes a much-needed guide to finding out just how good life can be. I give this book my highest recommendation.
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