Think Happy to Stay Happy: The Awesome Power of Learned Optimism
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Positivity guide: Happiness is around every corner, but every once in a while we need a guide or map to find it. This book is your guide. The 50 chapters of Think Happy to Stay Happy are filled with positivity ideas and inspiration to help you learn how to be happy.Stay happy: Joy unites all people and words are often how we best express our joy. Think Happy to Stay Happy is the perfect collection of power thoughts and insightful quotes and affirmations that express some of the best ways to "stay happy." The secret to being happy may well be a "gratitude adjustment."
Follow your bliss: One thing the world's wisdom traditions all agree on is that all states of "higher being" are not attained by stumbling around an unmarked road to "blisstown", but result from inner work and self development. Bliss means connecting with your true self more deeply and arriving at a place of ease and awareness. "If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living."
Benefits of reading Think Happy to Stay Happy:
• Learn to be happy
• Learn about how a "gratitude adjustment" can help you stay happy
• Attain a state of bliss
Becca Anderson
Becca Anderson comes from a long line of teachers and preachers from Ohio and Kentucky. The teacher side of her family led her to become a woman's studies scholar and to her career writing about awesome women. A multiple-time bestselling author, Becca Anderson is known for many things, including her books Badass Affirmations and The Book of Awesome Women, her Your Blessings blog and Every Day Thankful Facebook page, as well as her many appearances on both national and bay area tv and radio shows such as ABC, NBC, and NPR. She credits her spiritual practice and daily prayer with helping her recover from cancer. An avid collector of affirmations, meditations, prayers and blessings, she helps run a “Gratitude and Grace Circle ''that meets monthly at homes, churches and bookstores in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently resides. Becca Anderson shares prayers and affirmations, inspirational writings and suggested acts of kindness at https://thedailyinspoblog.wordpress.com
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Think Happy to Stay Happy - Becca Anderson
Copyright © 2018 Becca Anderson
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Think Happy to Stay Happy: The Awesome Power of Learned Optimism
Library of Congress Cataloging
ISBN: (p) 978-1-63353-731-6, (e) 978-1-63353-730-9
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017962616
BISAC - OCC010000 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Mindfulness & Meditation
- SEL016000 SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness
Printed in the United States of America
bg_leafContents
Foreword
Introduction:
Change Your Thinking to Change Your Life
Author Note:
The Art of Self-Affirmation:
How to Use This Book
Be a Day Lifter!
Random Acts of Love
Be a Good in the World
Make Contact
In Your Own Backyard
Spread Joy at the Office
Scatter Happiness All Around
Give Gladness to Others
What the World Needs Now
Learn the Language of Kindness
The Little Things Count
Free Hugs for All!
Don’t Forget the Senseless Acts of Beauty!
No Strings Attached
Make Amends
Share the Love!
Always Remember, It’s Not All about You
Live with Purpose and Meaning
The Art of Making a Life
What Is Your Personal Mission?
Think Best-Case Scenario
All the Time
Do You Know How Great You Are?
Your Goals Will Grow You
Yes, You Can
List Your Life
Ask How Are You?
and Mean It!
Today Is a Great Day: Let Yourself Enjoy It
Accentuate the Positive
Be the Light on Dark Days
Make Time for Gratitude Every Day
Look at Everything in a New Way
Gossip Makes Us All Unhappy
Do What You