Synopses & Reviews
Nearly every choice we make and action we take, from adolescence to death, is driven by a single, all-consuming quest: to live a good life.
Problem is, there’s no clear, practical road map to get there. No single collection of proven strategies that don’t require you to buy into a particular doctrine, dogma, faith, or belief in order for you to get the proverbial keys to the good-life castle.
At the same time, a mountain of misinformation distracts and deludes millions into actions and paths destined to fail, then lays blame when the “absolute truths” offered yield nothing more than absolute misery.
How to Live a Good Life is your antidote: a practical and provocative modern-day manual for the pursuit of an extraordinary life. No need for blind faith or surrender of intelligence; everything you’ll discover is immediately actionable and subject to validation through your own experience. You will discover 12 elements, drawn from the intersection of science, spirituality, and the author’s years-long global quest to interview and learn at the feet of masters from nearly every tradition and walk of life. You will:
• Explore a side of happiness that will not only lead to more joy but also awaken you to forgiveness.
• Learn how to cultivate a fierce sense of meaning and purpose in all you do.
• Discover the unlikely marriage between gratitude and desire and the futility of the near delusional optimism that infects so much of today’s personal-growth landscape.
• Revel in the power of belonging and learn how to cultivate it.
• Open to both the responsibility and the gift of freedom, and the transformative power of compassion.
• Understand how to stop living a stress-addled, checked-out, punch-list life and revel in the grace and gift of present awareness.
• Discover how to reclaim your sleep, movement, and nutrition, and seed a wellspring of health and vitality.
Though respectful of tradition, spirituality, and faith, there will be no sacred cows. Long-held myths, often taught as truths, will nonetheless end up busted. Ideas you’ve held dear will be challenged, then replaced with a new set of guidelines that will, maybe for the first time, unlock a future you’ve sensed was always there but until now has felt perpetually just beyond reach.
Synopsis
Seriously . . . another book that tells you how to live a good life? Don't we have enough of those?
You'd think so. Yet, more people than ever are walking through life disconnected, disengaged, dissatisfied, mired in regret, declining health, and a near maniacal state of gut-wrenching autopilot busyness.
Whatever is out there isn't getting through. We don't know who to trust. We don't know what's real and what's fantasy. We don't know how and where to begin and we don't want to wade through another minute of advice that gives us hope, then saps our time and leaves us empty.
How to Live a Good Life is your antidote; a practical and provocative modern-day manual for the pursuit of a life well lived. No need for blind faith or surrender of intelligence; everything you'll discover is immediately actionable and subject to validation through your own experience.
Drawn from the intersection of science, spirituality, and the author's years-long quest to learn at the feet of masters from nearly every tradition and walk of life, this book offers a simple yet powerful model, the "Good Life Buckets"--spend 30 days filling your buckets and reclaiming your life.
Each day will bring a new, practical yet powerful idea, along with a specific exploration designed to rekindle deep, loving, and compassionate relationships; cultivate vitality, radiance, and graceful ease; and leave you feeling lit up by the way you contribute to the world, like you're doing the work you were put on the planet to do.
How to Live a Good Life is not just a book to be read; it's a path to possibility, to be walked, then lived.
About the Author
Jonathan Fields is a New York City dad, husband, award-winning author, media-producer, and entrepreneur. His last book, Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance, was named the top personal development book in 2011 by 800-CEO-READ. Jonathan’s current focus, Good Life Project® (GLP), is a media and education venture and global movement that empowers people to live more engaged and connected lives. GLP media reaches over 200,000 people a month, across more than 150 countries, and its events and programs draw participants from around the world.