Just released: Audiobook edition of How to Get Happy and Stay That Way (Romer)
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Recently released - the audiobook edition of How to Get Happy and Stay That Way by Joanna Romer.
Book description:
A winningly simple yet comprehensive look at the source of happiness, based on interviews with twelve of the happiest people that the author knows, most of whom have had what others might consider difficult lives. Each "happy person" vignette includes an introspective mini-bio and advice for how readers can attain the same level of happiness. At the end of each chapter (interview), the author provides guidelines for achieving happiness in small steps that any reader can take with confidence. An excellent book for developing self-awareness and an attitude of gratitude, leading to peace and joy.
Book Review by RLAManna (Amazon):
What is the way to happiness and how does one stay on that path? How do we move beyond hardened views of the world, our place in it, and our often faulty perceptions? If it is true that peace and happiness abide within us, waiting to be reclaimed, how do we go there in our daily lives?
There is no one right way to ongoing happiness Joanna Romer’s latest book suggests, but there are many ways. How To Get Happy & Stay That Way, an accessible volume of ideas and profiles, encourages us to be proactive and to discover for ourselves our path, our way. Happiness, as the title suggests, is not simply a state of mind, but an ever-evolving skill to be experienced daily and shared with others, a by-product of living and choosing consciously in our often busy, sometimes chaotic lives.
The individuals interviewed for the book clearly share common traits: Acceptance, Forgiveness, Trust, Self-Awareness, Willingness. While some people might be born with these virtues already developed, most of us have to work at them in our own private academy of hard knocks. (We all know family and friends who have given away these powerful tools for living, given up, and fared less than well.) Get Happy suggests that we needn’t fall into cynicism as we age and get banged around; rather, it suggests that we Slow Down! Love. Rejoice! Do the Next Thing! These aptly named vignettes contain wisdoms that the generations have discovered, and that we, living in the here and now, may rightly inherit and use.
Like several of Ms. Romer’s earlier books, Get Happy is a resource that seeks to move the reader into a larger awareness. By expanding self-awareness, by listening to the harsh ways we speak to ourselves and halting in mid-sentence, by trusting our instincts and taking chances, and by living in the present, we can, and we do, move beyond the mundane into a fuller appreciation of life. As the author reminds us after experiencing a sense of loss while walking on the beach: “[W]e have a certain level of freedom to govern our feelings and actions. We can choose to be happy . . . .”
This book, along with Ms. Romer’s earlier work, Creative Aging (co-authored with Ms. Cheryl Vassiliadis), complement one another, especially for baby boomers who early on realized they didn’t want everything—but they did want IT all.
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