Happy For No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy From the Inside Out

By Marci Shimoff and Carol Kline

Everyone wants to be happy, yet so many people are the opposite of that, with increasing numbers of anti-depressants being dispensed each year. Clearly we need a new approach to life. Happy for No Reasonpresents startling new ideas and a practical programme that will change the way we look at creating happiness in our lives. Marci Shimoff combines the best in cutting-edge scientific research into happiness with interviews with over 100 genuinely happy people, and lays out a powerful, holistic, seven-step formula for raising our 'happiness set point'. Our happiness levels are like a neuro-physiological thermostat - we can actually re-programme ourselves to a higher level of peace and wellbeing as happiness is dependent on internal, not external, factors. Happy for No Reasonwill set readers quickly and easily on a path to lasting joy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Release date: Sep 4, 2008
• ISBN: 9781847375933

Marci Shimoff

Marci Shimoff is a celebrated transformational leader and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. In addition to authoring the worldwide bestseller Happy for No Reason, she is the coauthor of six of the top-selling titles in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and a featured teacher in the international movie and book sensation The Secret. President and cofounder of The Esteem Group, Marci delivers keynote addresses and seminars to corporations, women’s associations, and professional and non-profit organizations. Over the past twenty-eight years, Marci has inspired millions of people around the world, sharing her breakthrough methods for personal fulfillment and professional success.

Reviews for Happy For No Reason

[Beck Merry · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book has changed the way I think dramatically, highly recommend :)

[kimolver · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I can't say enough great things about this book. I LOVED this book. What attracted me to it initially was the subtitle--talking about being happy from the inside out. My avid readers know Inside Out Empowerment is all about an inside out transformation of your life. So, I picked up the book and read it in record time.I loved it because Marci used research to make her point. She interviewed 100 people she determined to be happy from the inside out to learn their secrets to success. She then summarized those qualities, traits and behaviors into seven categories which she so clearly explains in this down-to-earth, easy-to-read book. She is a wonderful storyteller, sharing stories of the people she interviewed to make her points.If you are serious about your own happiness and your effect on the happiness of others, then you need to add this book to your library.

[gshuk_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I agree with the title of the book. If there is no reason to be happy or sad go for happiness. While I have heard many of these things before there was enough new stuff that it was a good book to read. The one downside was she started to go into areas that were so obvious you wonder why she included it. There is a workbook on the website which has exercises and summarizes much of the book.

[sacrain · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I must admit, I was SO HAPPY when I was reading this book! It was a nice refresher to dip into every day. Shimoff's advice and ideologoy isn't earth shattering or revolutionary in any way, but it was so NICE...it was the perfect antidote to all of the crap we hear day in and day out on the news.The majority of Shimoff's advice is common sense, but it's organized very neatly, and is easy to follow. It's also nice to have someone validating your desire to be happy/optimistic. I recommend this to anyone looking to break out of a funk, who needs a little lift on a daily basis, or is looking for an alternative to the major bummer we know as CNN.

[wiseasgandalf_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Everyone wants to be happy, right? I know I sure do. So, why not a book that tells you how to be happy? That’s the idea behind a book I recently read titled Happy for No Reason, written by Marci Shimoff, an established self-help author & speaker.For a book written by someone who does not follow Jesus, she admirably gets some things right. She rightly understands that trying to be happy just by doing or having things that make you happy is a dead end street. Instead, she realizes that true lasting happiness is an internal state of the soul not connected to any external circumstance. That’s a Biblical truth that even many Christians have yet to live day by day.She also gives out some very practical & valuable wisdom in the book. Some that I particularly agreed with included looking for the lesson and the gift in any trial you are experiencing, realizing that you must question your thoughts and reject the ones that aren’t true, focusing on gratitude & forgiveness, & understanding that a properly nourished body helps our brain to function properly.However, this good advice is immersed in a heavily new age philosophy & practice, from “going beyond your mind and letting go” to “listening to your inner voice” & “tuning in to your body’s wisdom.” In her world there is no need for the death of Christ to establish a connection with God, no need to realize that I’m born spiritually dead until Jesus gives me life, & no need to take up a cross & die to my desires as I follow Him. I’m quite sure she wouldn’t realize that much of what she practices and advocates as a path of happiness is actually a path away from the one true God, & not toward Him.Her “breakthrough approach to happiness” is indeed a much better path than what most people take in this life, but ultimately still falls short of the simple path of following Christ above all. Not recommended reading.

[kellyoliva_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Exceptional. Marci's book is easy to read and contains a plethora of activities to help make you "happy for no reason". I enjoyed this book tremendously, and felt it was a great follow up to The Secret and Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting.