Synopses & Reviews
We all want the things that were sure will make us happy—money, success, independence, love. But when we finally get them, we can find to our surprise that we are the same miserable, moody, or just neutral people we always were. Why is that? Is it us? Is our ability to be happy genetically programmed in us like the color of our eyes?
Luckily not. You can teach yourself to be happy and enjoy every day, and M. J. Ryan, bestselling author of The Power of Patience and Attitudes of Gratitude, shows you how. In her international coaching practice, M. J. Ryan has shown hundreds of clients how to find and really feel the joy in their lives. She gives them tools to unearth what stands in their way and revolutionize the way they experience life. Now its your turn for a Happiness Makeover.
Ryans own desire to be happier first led her to study what is known about happiness from brain science, psychology, and the wisdom traditions of the world. The Happiness Makeover draws on this wide-ranging knowledge and presents a plan that will help you:
• Clear away happiness hindrances like worry, fear, envy, and grudges
• Discover happiness boosters like flow, meaningful work, challenge, and gratitude
• Literally rewire your brain to experience contentment—even joy
• Learn to think optimistically (it really is possible!)
• Find daily ways to truly enjoy, even relish, the moments of your life
Full of moving stories, inspiring quotations, and the wisdom of one who has been there before, The Happiness Makeover offers the means to find elusive happiness at last.
Synopsis
At forty, M. J. Ryan had gotten the things she always thought would make her happy—money, success as the founder of a thriving publishing house, independence, even love. But she was still the same unhappy negative person she had always been. So she set out to learn why.
Are some of us simply fated to be miserable? Luckily, no. M. J. studied everything known about happiness from neuroscience, psychology, and the wisdom traditions of the world, and with what she learned, she did a happiness makeover on herself. And it worked! She discovered that we can learn how to be happy, right now, even in the chaos of our most trying days. In The Happiness Makeover, she shares the simple strategies that can help anyone—miserable, moody or just neutral—finally find the joy in life.
The Happiness Makeover is a two-step process, first of overcoming common happiness blockers like worry, envy, fear, and negativity, and second, of pursuing happiness boosters, like flow, meaningful work, challenge, gratitude, and many more. Her plan helps us actually change the pathways in our minds worn deep from our habitual negative thinking and program ourselves to think happily instead.
From the Dalai Lama’s Art of Happiness to The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People to last year’s What Happy People Know, year after year people reach out for happiness books. The Happiness Makeover will give them what they long for—the tools to find elusive happiness at last.
About the Author
M. J. Ryan is one of the creators of the Random Acts of Kindness series, which has sold more than one million copies, and the author of Trusting Yourself, The Power of Patience, Attitudes of Gratitude, and many other titles. The founder and longtime publisher of Conari Press, she is currently a consultant with Professional Thinking Partners, where she specializes in coaching executives on issues of life purpose and leadership. She is a popular speaker and a contributing editor at Good Housekeeping. She lives in Walnut Creek, California.