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August is "Happiness Happens" month, but really -- happiness doesn't just happen. Aspire to happiness with the help of these books. |
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by Liz Moody
Whether you decide to read the entire book at once for total transformation, a tip a day to add a dose of inspiration to your morning routine, or go directly to the sections that address your specific needs and challenges, every page of this book offers powerful, habit-building tips across subjects ranging from mental health, careers, relationships, confidence, and physical health.
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by Scott Galloway
Whether it's advice on if you should drop out of school to be an entrepreneur, ideas on how to position yourself in a crowded job market, discovering what the most important decision in your life is, or arguing that our relationships to others are ultimately all that matter, Galloway entertains, inspires, and provokes.
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by Adam Gopnik
Our society is obsessed with achievement. As Adam Gopnik points out, the result is not so much a rat race as a rat maze, with no way out. Except one: to choose accomplishment over achievement.
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by Gloria Mark
While the concept of "flow" has previously been considered the ideal state of focus, Dr. Mark offers a new framework to help explain how our brains function in the digital world: kinetic attention. This book reveals how we can take control, not only to find more success in our careers, but also to find health and wellness in our everyday lives.
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by Arthur C. Brooks
With insight, compassion, and hope, Brooks and Winfrey reveal how the tools of emotional self-management can change your life―immediately. They recommend practical, research-based practices to build the four pillars of happiness: family, friendship, work, and faith.
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by William Burnett
"Increasingly, it's up to workers to define their own happiness and success in this ever-moving landscape," and chapter by chapter, this book will demonstrate how to build positive change, wherever you are in your career.
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by Gil Fronsdal
The Dhammapada is the most widely read Buddhist scripture in existence. The text presents two distinct goals for leading a spiritual life: the first is attaining happiness in this life (and in future lives); the second goal is achieving spiritual liberation, freedom, and absolute peace
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by Natalie Eve Garrett
This collection of intimate, illustrated essays by some of America's most well-regarded literary writers explores how comfort food can help us cope with dark times-be it the loss of a parent, the loneliness of a move, or the pain of heartache.
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by Eddie JakuThe Nazis took everything from Eddie--his family, his friends, and his country. But they did not break his spirit. Against unbelievable odds, Eddie found the will to survive. Overwhelming grateful, he made a promise: he would smile every day in thanks for the precious gift he was given and to honor the six million Jews murdered by Hitler.
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by Jonathan Rauch
From our 20s into our 40s, happiness follows a U-shaped trajectory, a "happiness curve," declining from the optimism of youth into what's often a long, low slump in middle age, before starting to rise again in our 50s. This isn't a midlife crisis , though.
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by Frank Lipman
EAT, SLEEP, MOVE, PROTECT, UNWIND, CONNECT: a unique handbook with everyday habits and practices you can deploy to live your best, healthiest, and happiest life.
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by Ross Gay
Gay turns his curious and poetic mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and laughter, and, always, the garden and the natural world.
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by Marie Kondō
The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and unnecessary tasks? These are the modern-day hazards of working, and they can slowly drain the joy from work, limit our chances of career progress, and undermine our well-being. There is another way.
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by Ingrid Fetell Lee
We are often made to feel that the physical world has little or no impact on our inner joy. Increasingly, experts urge us to find balance and calm by looking inward--through mindfulness or meditation--and muting the outside world. But what if the natural vibrancy of our surroundings is actually our most renewable and easily accessible source of joy?
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by Gretchen Rubin
For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed the vital sensations of life to slip away, unnoticed. This epiphany lifted her from a state of foggy preoccupation into a world invigorated by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.
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by David Zahl
Zahl invites readers into a biblically rooted and surprisingly life-giving low anthropology, which fosters hope, deep connection with others, lasting love, vulnerability, compassion, and happiness.
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by Euny Hong
The art of reading a room and understanding what others are thinking and feeling, nunchi is a form of emotional intelligence that anyone can learn--all you need are your eyes and ears.
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by Bruce Feiler
America is at a once-in-a-generation turning point around work- unprecedented numbers are quitting their jobs, rethinking their routines, breaking away from stifling expectations. The most suffocating iron cage of all is the idea that each of us must follow a linear career-lock into a dream early, always climb higher, never stop until you reach the top.
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by Margareta Magnusson
As with death cleaning, it's never too early to begin. The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly shows all readers how to prepare for and understand the process of growing older and the joys and sorrows it can bring.
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by Tabitha Carvan
Carvan explores what happens to women's desires after we leave adolescence...and why the space in our lives for pure, unadulterated joy is squeezed ever smaller as we age.
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