Sitting in the kitchen of his grandfather's Chinese restaurant, a young boy enjoys watching the chefs and waiters prepare and serve mouth-watering dishes.
Channtey Heng was born into a poor, broken family in a small village in Cambodia. She always had to fight barriers and discrimination. When she was two years old she was diagnosed with polio in her right leg and now her eyesight is failing. This was around the time that her father left them for another woman, shirking his responsibilities to his family. Her mother was very hurt and had to work immensely hard to look after three children with disabilities as a sole parent. As she grew up, she noticed how often her mother would cry. Her two brothers also had different impairments and they lived in a small house with nothing to eat some days. She overcame her anger and set about changing her family’s situation. Later in life, she was able to embark on a writing career after gaining much life experience. This led to the book you have before you. Be Happy and Smile is a series of short stories, beautiful in their simplicity and honesty. They are written to encourage the reader to think deeply about what really matters in life to bring true satisfaction. When you read these stories, not just once but maybe a few times, you are sure to find a smile spread across your face and the faces of those you are reading to. Finding inner happiness and peace is something that has become very difficult in this day and age. May Channtey’s stories help you achieve it!
70 Days of Happy: Life is BETTER When You Smile is a personal journey of self-discovery and empowerment; providing helpful tools and suggestions to help take BACK the emotional control that others have repeatedly been allowed access to in your life. Stop looking to others for your happiness, peace, contentment, life's purpose and value. None of those things will be found in them. PURE joy begins within and flows outward. Only then will it be real. Only then will it last. You have the power to create change; in yourself, your family, community and this world through the purpose that was strategically designed, solely for you. 70 Days of Happy can show you how to ignite it! The keys are in YOUR hands. What doors will you open today...tomorrow...in LIFE Let's take this journey together, and find out!
'1001 Things to Make you Smile' is a unique anthology of happy and humorous observations, grounded in the ethos of mind, body and spirit, but glancing too at some of out more endearing foibles and self-deceptions. It covers themes from everday life, including: people, children, emotions, creativity, wisdom, wonder, change, love, happiness, travel, money, and problems. Given that even the most familiar thought can give fresh pleasure when presented in an unexpected light, the book draws many smiles by expressing simple truths in quirky ways. This miniature treasure-trove of wise and comic gems makes an excellent gift but is also a delightful resource to keep with you for all those moments when you're in need of a smile.
What exactly is happiness? Can we measure it? Why are some people happy and others not? And is there a drug that could eliminate all unhappiness? People all over the world, and throughout the ages, have thought about happiness, argued about its nature, and, most of all, desired it. But why do we have such a strong instinct to pursue happiness? And if happiness is good in itself, why haven't we simply evolved to be happier? Daniel Nettle uses the results of the latest psychological studies to ask what makes people happy and unhappy, what happiness really is, and to examine our urge to achieve it. Along the way we look at brain systems, at mind-altering drugs, and how happiness is now marketed to us as a commodity. Nettle concludes that while it may be unrealistic to expect lasting happiness, our evolved tendency to seek happiness drives us to achieve much that is worthwhile in itself. What is more, it seems to be not your particular circumstances that define whether you are happy so much as your attitude towards life. Happiness gives us the latest scientific insights into the nature of our feelings of well-being, and what these imply for how we might live our lives.
Emerging With Wings is a love story. Danielle Bernock takes you with her on her raw yet graceful journey from an invisible cage full of agony and shame, to the incomprehensible joy of validation, love and the empowerment of personal freedom. She unveils how this cage was built as well as how she obtained her freedom. Many things she did not know kept her in the dark, one being the harmful effects of multiple childhood traumas that went unaddressed which fed that darkness and a pervasive fear. The love story reveals a LOVE that secretly carried and protected her despite the lies that grew in that darkness, organized for destruction. This LOVE came and never gave up. The LOVE of one she calls The Pursuer. You are invited into her story. Enter it, share its elegance and in it see The Pursuer for yourself, in your story, for your freedom.
Smile For No Good Reason by New York Times best-selling author Dr. Lee Jampolosky, is filled with simple things you can do to get happy NOW! Presented in clear and concise ways it has helped thousands of people and now it can help you! Dr. Jampolsky teaches us about attitudinal healing through 12 principles taught through powerful and concise stories that will give you the tools to live a happier and more meaningful life. Attitudinal healing is a way to go through your day responding to life's challenges with peace of mind rather than with fear, anger and guilt. It has helped thousands of people and now it can help you.
Now, you can find the happiness you want and live “the good life” you deserve by applying the helpful information in Happiness For Dummies, the ultimate guide to achieving bliss! You’ll discover proven techniques for living a meaningful, healthy, and productive life no matter what your life circumstances happen to be. Positive concepts and techniques will help you change key behaviors, foster good habits, and be in sync with your surroundings. This helpful guide will give you the chance to assess your happiness and understand what it means to be happy at each stage of self-actualization. You’ll learn why having positive emotions can improve your health and well-being. And, you will find out what happiness isn’t and how to avoid confusing happiness with culturally valued outcomes like wealth, power, and success. Pursue what you want, seize the day, find benefits in life’s challenges, and live a coherent lifestyle. Find out how to: Assess your current capacity for happiness Live the life that you want Overcome common obstacles to happiness Identify your strengths and virtues Improve your emotional and spiritual life Create meaningful social ties and learn to be alone Find the silver lining Complete with lists of ten ways to raise a happy child, ten common roadblocks to happiness, and ten personal habits to foster happiness, Happiness For Dummies is your one-stop, easy-to-follow guide to being happy and living your best life.
Books on leadership describe a wide variety of styles, from servant leadership to situational leadership and from agile to feminine leadership. But is it really that complicated? And has leadership really changed over the years or are employees' basic needs still the same?In this inspiring and practical book from Alex Slavenburg, the central premise is: Wouldn't it be fantastic if managers could adopt "Leading with a smile" as their preferred style? which means that leadership becomes enjoyable, suits you, feels good and is appreciated by the people around you!In Leading with a smile, Slavenburg gives you practical tools that will help you, as a leading person, find that smile within you and bring a smile to the people you lead. Based on more than two decades of own experience in leadership he takes you along to discover the world of being in the lead and influencing others. His approach is based on the positive psychology and will for sure bring a smile on your face while reading the book.
The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.