Is it because you're fat, poor, have a bad job, want a baby, need a romantic partner, can't retire, are out of shape or ugly? Well, it's NOT any of those things.
You've read the books and tried the tools but life just seems to throw you sour curve balls. The Practical Guide to Happiness: If You Don't Like How You're Feeling, Think Again, delivers some of the thinking wisdom of the ages in a new, highly relatable format. Using true-to-life stories of people who are struggling with the very issues that most Americans face (excess weight, lack of money, romance, fitness, family, employment and more) The Practical Guide shows you how perspective and thinking determine how happy you are.
For each personal issue the reader is presented with two stories. The stories demonstrate, in clear and relatable ways, why some people are happier than others, in spite of similar circumstances. You will see for yourself how even subtle difference in perspective and thinking, not circumstances, can determine whether you are happy or not.
Each story set is followed by an analysis of the benefits and consequences of the perspective and thinking habits of the characters portrayed. If you can see yourself in any of the stories, techniques for analyzing your own thinking habits and diagnosing the origins of your perspective follow in the second part of the book.
The final chapters of The Practical Guide to Happiness deliver detailed steps for direct, but simple mind re-training. It's one thing to declare that you will think more positively. It's another to learn to manage the negative diatribe the human ego continually delivers to most people. This book delivers the tools you need to carve a new path and to Think Again every time you step off it.