The Happiness Makeover: Overcome Stress and Negativity to Become a Hopeful, Happy Person
Written by M.J. Ryan
Narrated by Christina Wren
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Become a Happy Person Through Positivity and Self-Care
“A wonderful blend of motivation, inspiration, and explanation, The Happiness Makeover is a recipe for enjoying today and all your tomorrows.”—David Niven, PhD, author of The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People
From M.J. Ryan, one of the creators of the New York Times bestselling Random Acts of Kindness series, The Happiness Makeover teaches you how to be a happy person and enjoy the experience of life again.
Train your brain to be optimistic, even in the darkest situations. From stress management tips to positive and motivational quotes, M.J. Ryan’s positivity book shows you how to transform your mindset so that you can face any difficult challenge thrown your way.
We all want the things that we are sure will make us a happy person—money, success, independence, and love. But when we finally get them, we can find to our surprise that we are the same miserable, moody, or unhappy person we always were. Do things have to be that way? Absolutely not!
Cultivating the ability to feel contentment is the key. There are people whose lives are full of serious challenges who nevertheless feel peace and joy—and there are those who have few difficulties in life and yet feel hopeless negativity. You can teach yourself to be a happy person and enjoy your days. M.J. Ryan, the bestselling author of The Power of Patience and Attitudes of Gratitude, shows you how in this positive thinking guide.
Editor's Note
Everyday joy…
“The Happiness Makeover” teaches you how to be happy with your life by breaking down the myths that often prevent us from reveling in everyday joy. Ryan’s work consists of short chapters with simple, easy to follow ways of channeling more happiness, so even the busiest readers have something to smile about.
M.J. Ryan
Known internationally as an expert on change, M.J. Ryan works as an executive coach to senior executives and entrepreneurs around the world to accelerate business success and personal fulfillment. She combines a practical approach gained as the CEO of a book publishing company with methodologies from neuroscience, positive psychology and asset-focused learning to help clients and readers more easily meet their goals. Her clients include Royal Dutch Shell, Microsoft, Time, the U.S. military, and Aon Hewitt. She's a partner with the Levo League career network and the lead venture coach at SheEO, an organization offering a new funding and support model for female entrepreneurs. She's the founder of Conari Press, creator of the New York Times bestselling Random Acts of Kindness series, and author of many books, including, Habit Changers: 81 Game-Changing Mantras to Mindfully Realize Your Goals.
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Reviews for The Happiness Makeover
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Some Notes:
• If we base our happiness to the fairness of life, we are absolutely doomed to misery.
• Instead of thinking how we could make others happy, help them how to figure out how they could make themselves happy.
• Choose to be happy for the people around you.
• Learn to think optimistically:
o Optimist: There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Pessimist: It’s probably a train coming straight at us.
o Being a pessimist won’t lead us to disappointments, but we won’t be happy either.
• Happiness refers to how often you are happy not on the intensity.
• Practice gratefulness: It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness makes us happy. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nice book about how to be a happy and joyful
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A lovely book that definitely warrents a re- reading when the mood strikes...
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It’s the heart of what we most yearn for and pray for
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You gotta listen to this book, great energy in this woman and her writings, books. This is her third book I have listened to and it is the second of her books I have purchased a physical copy of. Just for the quotes alone makes the book worth the price that she adds at every chapter. And it is in bit size bits, chapters so I know this is going to be a wonderful book to work through.
M.J. Is creating a book nerd in me, and it is cool that while I am only in San Francisco for 3 months out of the year working the ice rink at Union Square, She and her books are now a part of my memories from San Francisco to carry with me in life. A win win.
Thank you for doing what you do and getting this also out in audio format. I like feeding my mind positive energy, and the ideas, teachings, and joy that are created listening to books like this are a return in invest of 10.000 fold.
Super David Scott, the Zam Man. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Various useful tools to combat c-ptsd and depression. Very good listen! I recommend.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Lovely voice to listen to & a great book
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I found this book to be a good listen. The narrator was great, and the content was lovely. I think this will be one I listen to more than once.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book got me out of a dark place! Helped me realize things I needed to change for myself to feel happier again!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a very nice book M audiobook! The best way to look at things and life! Definitely a must read!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Definitely not what was expected; but I was delightfully surprised. Very common sense straight forward information without focusing on the "normal" this should make you happier type book. Thank you
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great morning listen to start the day. I give it 10/10 stars
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It was a good book except that she throws in her religious beliefs while also talking about Buddhism and Egyptian philosophy. Sorry but Yahwehism doesn’t go with Buddhism and Egyptian religion. Leave the nonsense out. Otherwise, good stuff in the book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The chapters are split into snippets of thoughts and recommendations, many of which are common knowledge. Good reminders, but nothing too insightful.
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