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.