From the minute we open our eyes in the morning we re on the go! So much clamoring for our attention - in the home, family, workplace, and community. We are constantly bombarded with information through social media in our high tech world. When do we have time to breathe? This elegantly simple book removes some of the mystery and confusion from everyday life and offers straightforward solutions for readers to relax and be in the moment...less stress more joy. Simple Happiness provides 52 Ways to Lighten Up...revealing concrete, empowering steps towards a more focused and productive daily life.
Create Pinterest-worthy clothing, accessories, and more with this how-to guide and memoir featuring 20 meditative sewing projects, plus inspiring stories that promote creativity, happiness, and fulfillment. When Sanae Ishida was diagnosed with a chronic illness and lost her corporate job, she felt like her whole life was falling apart. Inspired to succeed at just one thing, Ishida vowed to sew all of her daughter’s clothes—and most of her own—for one full year. In Sewing Happiness, Ishida recounts her incredible journey, reflecting on how sewing helped her survive such a difficult time in her life. Sewing Happiness features twenty simple sewing projects (with variations) organized by season and tied together with a thread of memoir that tells the story Ishida’s unexpected transformation and how sewing brought her profound happiness. Each seasonal project—from Japanese-inspired home goods to children’s and women’s clothing—is specially designed to promote health, creativity, and relationships and to provide gentle inspiration to live your best life. Complete with photos and easy-to-follow steps, Sewing Happiness is at once a guide to the craft of sewing and a guide to enjoying life in all its beautiful imperfections.
What do we wish most for our children? Next to being healthy, we want them to be happy, of course! Fortunately, a wide array of scientific studies show that happiness is a learned behavior, a muscle we can help our children build and maintain. Drawing on what psychology, sociology, and neuroscience have proven about confidence, gratefulness, and optimism, and using her own chaotic and often hilarious real-world adventures as a mom to demonstrate do’s and don’ts in action, Christine Carter, Ph.D, executive director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, boils the process down to 10 simple happiness-inducing steps. With great wit, wisdom, and compassion, Carter covers the day-to-day pressure points of parenting—how best to discipline, get kids to school and activities on time, and get dinner on the table—as well as the more elusive issues of helping children build healthy friendships and develop emotional intelligence. In these 10 key steps, she helps you interact confidently and consistently with your kids to foster the skills, habits, and mindsets that will set the stage for positive emotions now and into their adolescence and beyond. Inside you will discover • the best way avoid raising a brat—changing bad habits into good ones • tips on how to change your kids’ attitude into gratitude • the trap of trying to be perfect—and how to stay clear of its pitfalls • the right way to praise kids—and why too much of the wrong kind can be just as bad as not enough • the spirit of kindness—how to raise kind, compassionate, and loving children • strategies for inspiring kids to do boring (but necessary) tasks—and become more self-motivated in the process Complete with a series of “try this” tips, secrets, and strategies, Raising Happiness is a one-of-a-kind resource that will help you instill joy in your kids—and, in the process, become more joyful yourself.
There are so many questions about happiness within ourselves. Is that true that happiness is easy ? What is happiness? Is it difficult to find happiness? Happiness has always been the goal of our life, but why happiness always be the final answer? Working to earn money in order to be happy , have a house to be happy, have a car or motorcycle to be happy, have savings to be happy, have a career to be happy, but are we really happy? So many definitions of happiness , having a lot of money, smart kids, luxury homes, beautiful cars, and having a great business. But when we have all of it, are we really happy? Or we want more and more? Life is a choice, happy or sad, happy or cry, healthy or sick, heaven or hell, if we could pick it ? whether happiness a choice? This book is used to find and feel the happiness. Happiness is so easy and simple, as well as to be happy everyday. Do you want to know how to get it? Let's get happy every day, want to accept this challenge?
Don’t worry, be happy. It’s easier said than done! But science has shown that we can live a more joyful life—and quickly go from feeling miserable to marvelous—by changing our habits. This book investigates the latest breakthroughs in positive psychology and examines the most effective ways to increases a reader’s sense of satisfaction with life. From exploring the benefits of the mind-body connection and the power of gratitude to the surprising ways that money, parenting and relationships can impact happiness, this publication will give readers the essential skills to finding peace—and make them appreciate the life they already have.
Who is truly happy? Doesn't it often seem as if the world is filled with people who aren't? We see them every day--the unsatisfied, the critical, the grouchy. It makes us wonder: What would it take to make people truly happy? In an often unhappy, confusing world, when it's hard to be certain which path leads to true happiness, it's good to know one source will share the truth: God's Word. In LIFE'S SIMPLE GUIDE TO HAPPINESS, readers will see what God has to say about making decisions, discern His plan and purpose, and find joy along the way. Discovering the inspiration and encouragement to meet each day with a smile has never been so simple.
A Year of Little Things is a gentle guide to making every moment count, inviting you to slow down and embrace the simple pleasures of daily life. Beautifully illustrated with evocative photographs inspired by the seasons, here are fulfilling ideas and activities to help you get back in touch with nature's rhythms, indulge your senses, and explore opportunities to live deliberately. Some are as simple as cherishing small things---such as touching sunlight to revel in its warmth in winter, singing to yourself during mundane chores, stargazing on a mild summer night---and some are more daring, such as embracing the spontaneous, staying up all night, lending a hand to a stranger in need, or sending an unexpected present. Blissful and uplifting experiences are always close at hand, you just need to reach out for them. So when life gets to be too much, let A Year of Little Things inspire you to savor special moments and celebrate the joy to be found in an ordinary day all year long.
From the minute we open our eyes in the morning, we're on the go--listening to the news as we shave, putting on make-up while driving to work, eating lunch at a staff meeting, on our cell phone at the little league game. Simple Happiness: 52 Easy Ways to Lighten Up removes some of the mystery and confusion from everyday life and offers straightforward solutions for you to relax and be in the moment. Ryan suggests that life doesn't have to be complicated and full of stress. On the contrary, he shows how every day can be a new opportunity to experience joy. Simple Happiness offers you concrete, practical steps that lead you to be more focused and productive. "It is my hope that readers will walk away with a new sense of self and enthusiasm to make effective changes towards living a more exceptional life." --Jim Ryan
Tolstoy wrote, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This is the statement that inspired bestselling author Gretchen Rubin to wonder whether she could foster an even greater happiness in her home. During The Happiness Project, the same questions kept tugging at her. How can I raise happy children? How can I maintain a tender, romantic relationship with my spouse--after fifteen years of marriage? How do I keep my Blackberry from taking over my private life? How can I foster a well-ordered, light-hearted atmosphere in my house, when no one else will lift a finger to cooperate? This book is Gretchen's account of her second journey in pursuit of happiness. Prescriptive, easy-to-follow, and anecdotal, Happier at Home offers readers a way of thinking and being that is positive and life-affirming. With specific examples following the calendar year, an intimate voice, and drawing from science and pop culture, this book will resonate with anyone looking to strengthen the bonds of family.
