Happiness A to Z: The Gleeful Guide to Finding and Following Your Bliss
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Happiness A to Z - Louise Harmon
happiness
a-z
happiness
a-z
The Gleeful Guide to Finding and Following Your Bliss
by Louise Baxter Harmon
Foreword by June Cotner
Copyright © 2015 by Louise Baxter Harmon.
All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or online reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Published in the United States by Viva Editions,
an imprint of Start Midnight, LLC, 609 Greenwich Street, Sixth Floor,
New York, New York, 10014.
Printed in the United States.
Cover design: Scott Idleman/Blink
Cover photograph: iStockphoto
Text design: Frank Wiedemann
First Edition.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Print book ISBN: 978-1-63228-007-7
E-book ISBN: 978-1-63228-0113-8
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harmon, Louise.
Happiness A to Z: the gleeful guide to finding and following your bliss / Louise Baxter Harmon. -- First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-63228-007-7 (paperback)
1. Self-actualization (Psychology)--Quotations, maxims, etc. 2. Motivation (Psychology)--Quotations, maxims, etc. I. Title.
BF637.S4H346 2015
158--dc23
2014042194
Contents
Foreword by June Cotner
Introduction: What I Know for Sure about Happiness
Alive: Savor Each Moment All of Your Days
Bliss: The Highest Level of Consciousness
Contentment: Take Your Happiness with You
Delight: A Sudden State of Glee
Enlightened: A Lifelong Pursuit
Friendship: Your Friends Are the Stories You Share
Gratitude: Beauty at Every Turn of the Road
Happy: Living Every Minute with Love, Grace, and Gratitude
Inspire: The Right Words at the Right Time Will Inspire You to Realize Life’s Full Potential
Joy: This Lovely Lightness of Being
Kindness: True Kindness Cannot be Given Away—It Can Only Be Shared
Love: We Are Meant to Love, Every Chance We Get
Magic: Magic Is Believing in Yourself
Nostalgia: Cherish All Your Happy Moments
Open-Minded: Let Your Interests Be as Wide as Possible
Purpose: Find Your Purpose and Give Your Whole Heart and Soul to It
Quintessence (of Life): The Fifth and Highest Element of Happiness
Relax: Doing Nothing: It Brings a Fresh Perspective
Silly: Life’s Better when It’s Fun
Thoughtful: The Happiness of Your Life Depends Upon the Quality of Your Thoughts
Understanding: What the World Needs Now
Vivacious: Lust for Life
Wonder: Seeing the Beauty in Everything
Xanadu: Create Your Own Happy Place
Yes!: Grab On with Both Hands and Just Go for It
Zest: Change Your Future by Changing Your Attitude
Afterword
About the Author
Index
Foreword
by June Cotner
HAPPINESS A TO Z offers refreshing perspectives on happiness from a wide variety of experts, including classic writers Albert Camus, Emily Dickinson, and Kahlil Gibran, as well as contemporary figures such as Drew Barrymore, Deepak Chopra, and Oprah Winfrey.
Having spent the last twenty years compiling inspirational collections, I was delighted to find this easy-to-use happiness guide! I’m committed to the power of inspirational thoughts and believe they can dramatically improve our lives. A positive perspective is the foundation of happiness—and Happiness A to Z will provide you with hundreds of inspiring quotes!
The book is conveniently divided into A-Z chapters such as Bliss,
Kindness,
Purpose,
and Wonder.
Author Louise Baxter Harmon introduces each chapter with personal reflections and ideas you can apply to your own life. Many of her reflections deal with the inner workings
of happiness and, with each reading, these uplifting thoughts will affect your life in ever more positive ways. Open the book to any page and let more happiness come into your life today!
June Cotner
Author of Garden Blessings and Graces
Introduction
What I Know for Sure about Happiness
WOULDN’T IT BE nice if happiness could be guaranteed just by learning your ABCs? While this inspired idea would seemingly make it as easy as following a recipe, experiencing happiness is not quite that simple. As it turns out, though, there is a language for this most-desired state of being, a vocabulary describing the art of contentment. From becoming a vessel to be filled with joy, to allowing yourself to be a little silly now and then, to becoming one with bliss, there are many words and many ways to be happy.
Happiness, as the old adage goes, is definitely an inside job. The inner work of happiness is that of thinking about how you live your life and how your thinking is foundational. We all know that where we were born, to whom we were born and the circumstances greatly influence who we are at the beginning of our lives, but this is not the alpha and the omega of who we are. By applying yourself at school, at work, in life, doors can open in any circumstance. Who you are is who you think you are. If you believe you are a person with potential, your potential will unfold. Many of us receive what I call negative programming when we are young and impressionable, but this can’t become the determining factor. Erase those old tapes and write your own program! Easier said than done, I know, but self-belief is the key. If it means writing affirmations and putting them on the fridge at home, then do it. If it means working with a life coach, try it. Perhaps consider an analytical approach, or process mapping your life and seeing how you come to be at a place in your life where you need to unlearn some old, bad unhappiness habits. Maybe for you, it would entail a retreat at Esalen learning yoga and deepest meditation. Or it could be simple, doable steps like getting up earlier in the day and trying one new thing a day.
The happiness pointers in this book are various approaches to inner work, ranging from a more spiritual path to simple and practical everyday tasks. Not every single one of these suggestions will work for you, but some of them will, so sift through the wisdom shared here by generous happiness practitioners and see what strikes a chord within you. What kind of happiness are you seeking? Maybe you don’t know yet—or you thought you did, but now you are not so sure. Maybe you are on the right track but just need a gentle nudge in a new direction. In our own lives, happiness can feel transitory and elusive. We can get overwhelmed by business and commit the cardinal happiness eradicator
of comparing ourselves to others. Thinking about what you lack is the shortest path to misery that I know of. Instead, do a reframe and think about what you have; gifts, talents, positive people in your life, a great garden, all the great, good things in your life. Better already, right? You’ll feel even better once you have read these surefire ways to get happy. Many great philosophers thought long and hard about the topic