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The Unconventional Guide to Sustainable Happiness: 10 Everyday Practices for Creating a Heathier, Wealthier, and Happier Life
The Unconventional Guide to Sustainable Happiness: 10 Everyday Practices for Creating a Heathier, Wealthier, and Happier Life
The Unconventional Guide to Sustainable Happiness: 10 Everyday Practices for Creating a Heathier, Wealthier, and Happier Life
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The Unconventional Guide to Sustainable Happiness: 10 Everyday Practices for Creating a Heathier, Wealthier, and Happier Life

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We all want to be happy and live meaningful lives. Yet it’s easy to lose sight of this basic and important fact as we move through life and take on more responsibility. As we get older we learn to stifle the very aspects of ourselves that make us unique and allow us to live in a way that feels authentic and supports our true selves.

As a result, we end up too busy to make time to do the very things that bring us joy, sustain our health, and make us feel fulfilled. In many cases it seems easier to put our heads down, take care of the urgent shoulds, and tell ourselves that we will “find” time at some later point in the future.

The good news is you can get off this busyness treadmill and create your own happiness. Becoming sustainably happy isn’t about throwing out your current life and starting over (though you may decide to make significant changes along the way). Instead it’s about finding a better balance between the three pillars of sustainability: health, wealth, and happiness. However, it’s easy to get caught up in and prioritize wealth, which includes our careers and the acquisition of stuff.

Fortunately, the best things in life don’t often cost money – they simply require an investment of our time and energy – both of which tend to be in short supply when our focus is on achieving externally based metrics of success, wealth, and/or recognition.

This guide distills down the key insights and lessons I took away from my year-long Sustainably Happy Project. It outlines the ten every day practices I found most valuable from my own research and experiments in developing a sustainably happy mindset:

1.Discover your why
2.Learn to want what you already have
3.Being and doing are better than having
4.Add value by simplifying and subtracting
5.Learn to unplug
6.Tackle the problem, not the symptom
7.Rewrite your story
8.Live judgment free
9.Embrace your quirks
10.Make time for movement

Examples and exercises are provided for each of the ten practices to help you adopt a curious, mindful, and experimental attitude as you begin to design your own sustainably happy life.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 22, 2018
ISBN9781370114368
The Unconventional Guide to Sustainable Happiness: 10 Everyday Practices for Creating a Heathier, Wealthier, and Happier Life
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Heather Wright Wendel

For over 16 years Heather Wright Wendel, PhD has been studying, implementing, and teaching sustainability. She enjoys sharing her insights and experiments at living a fun, meaningful, and less-resource intensive lifestyle on her blog, Unconventional Sustainability. Heather is curious by nature, which combined with her passion for sustainability, has fostered a growing interest on the topic of sustainable happiness. In 2017, Heather completed a year-long Sustainably Happy Project that allowed her to focus on a different happiness related topic each month, with the idea of discovering the key aspects of life that contribute most significantly to her sense of purpose, wellbeing, and contentment. Based on her research and own experimentation, Heather has become an advocate and teacher of sustainable happiness and life design. She believes that happiness is a choice and that we all have the ability to create our own sustainably happy lives by taking deliberate and small actions every day.

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