Happiness Handbook

S. Littles Lorenzo

Description

This Handbook demonstrates how to use your power of choice to create the happiness you want. A simple technique for defining your happiness; Visualization as a means of supporting your happiness; Effective methods for accomplishing any task from the very simple to the extremely complex; How to recognize and appreciate your happiness. It's easy to read with illustrations that comically demonstrate important points. The message is simple and clear: Happiness is available to all of us, it is our birth right. We need only claim it. Begin today to transform your life and create the happiness and peace of mind that is yours for the making.

Sujets

• Assertiveness

Informations

• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 02 novembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780983942252
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Title Page
THE HAPPINESS HANDBOOK





By Lorenzo S. Littles
Illustrations by Scott C, Stone, Jr.



Publisher Information
The Happiness Handbook
published in 2012 by Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
Forester & Cohen Publishing, LLC
5257 Buckeystown Pike Suite 423
Frederick, Maryland 21704
cohenpublishing.com
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
Copyright © Lorenzo S. Littles 2012
The right of Lorenzo S. Littles to be identified as author of this book has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988.



Dedications
Joyfully dedicated to Corliss, Arielle, Wyatt, my mother Martha, Dr. Emmons, Adriane, Frank, Lymott, and Zach, the people who comprise my inner circle, and to all my family and friends who have consistently given me love and acceptance. Thank you for believing in me. Also dedicated to the countless victims of the world’s natural and man-made disasters. Persevere and keep faith.



Acknowledgments
Special thanks to Angie Butiong, Charlotte Walker. Ruth Emmons, Mary Ellen Caron, Stan Kirtley, Charles White, Cecilia Mowatt, Lindel Forbes, Joyce Walker, Yucara Larkin, Brenda Montgomery, Johnny Diggs, Carolyn DuBose, Jackie Cook, Mary Vana and Hattie Foster for your encouragement, your substantive and editorial comments, and your support.



About the Collaborators
Lorenzo Littles is an attorney working for a Fortune 500 corporation in Southlake, Texas where he resides with his wife and two children. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, a Masters degree from Princeton University, and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. An active participant in a variety of social and civic organizations, he was a candidate for the Illinois House of Representatives in November, 1992. The Happiness Handbook., his first publication., is a compilation of notes and speeches from his searching over the past twenty years.
Illustrator Dr. Scott Stone, Jr was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and obtained his medical degree from the University of Illinois. He practiced medicine in Chicago where he lived with his wife and two children. As an undergraduate and medical student. Dr. Stone worked as a cartoonist; a skill he developed for relaxation and recreation. Dr. Stone is survived by his two children.


Confucius say: Happy is the man who thinks he is.




Introduction
Life is hard and life is unfair. It is today, it was yesterday and, unless something dramatically different happens, it will be tomorrow. Today life is also more complex than it has ever been. There are more choices than we have time to make and more dangers, real and imagined, than we can cope with. On top of everything else, work, school, family life and our social and religious institutions continue to change faster than we can comfortably adjust. OK, so after years and years of struggling to make your life what it is today, why do you need another “how to” handbook on being happy? Well, you don’t! If you’re reading this you probably still have questions in your mind about happiness and you’ve said to yourself, maybe this guy can answer them for me. You’re right. The catch: you probably already know most of the answers and simply have trouble making them work in your life.
What qualifies me to give advice on being happy? I am happy now and have been for most of my life. During those periods when I wasn’t happy, I spent lots of time trying to figure out what was “wrong.” I took the Erhard Seminar Training (est), Hathra Yoga, Karate, Transcendental Meditation (TM), Personal Power with Tony Robbins and went through a barrel full of self-help and self-actualization books and audio-cassette programs.
I did all this because I was searching for answers to questions that would “make a difference in my life.” Unfortunately, I was asking the wrong questions. Instead of searching for happiness, you need to choose happiness as your point of departure and everything else in your life will flow.



Warnings
1) Reading this or any other book is not going to eliminate all the problems and challenges in your life. What it may do is give you a better and more joyful framework in which to deal with them. The good news is that human beings can and do adapt. Each of us possesses the inner ability to change our minds, moods, and methods to create the happiness we think we deserve.
2) This handbook is written for a readership with normal neuroses, that is the average person with “typical” anxieties, problems, and daily stresses. If you’ve been told or know that you need professional help, either medical or psychological, take the necessary step and go get it. The rest of us, no matter what age, shape, weight, color, or sex can benefit from the suggestions made in this handbook. They will work for you.
Several of my readers told me that this handbook was too short to adequately cover a subject as complicated as happiness. Their criticism was correct; however, this material is not intended to provide textbook treatment of the topic. Not everyone is interested in that much detail. Busy people want information quickly and want to be directed to methods and techniques that create results. This handbook’s purpose is to assist you in beginning the processes that will lead you to a happier life. In that sense, it is a “primer” - a guide to and through a more complex body of knowledge. Accept it as that.
For my own part, with a wife, two children and lots of responsibilities and financial obligations, I am today much more clearly focused on the things that do and do not create happiness in my life. I share these insights with you so that your journey can be as fruitful and immensely pleasurable as my own.
Lorenzo S. Littles



So You Want To Be Happy Do You?
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Keller
Very, very few of us begin life with more physical disadvantages than did Helen Keller. Born blind and deaf, she nonetheless lived a full and rewarding life because she chose to live with enthusiasm and commitment to something beyond herself. If she could do that, why can’t you? Everything in life is relative. If you want happiness, you have to be willing to be happy.
Unlike most “how to” books which demand your careful attention, this one only requires that you put yourself in a frame of mind to accept happiness. Can you really be happy? This handbook doesn’t contain illustrative examples that take up time and space nor does it include the latest research study on happiness. There are no cleverly hidden meanings or conclusions because you bought this material to get answers. Presented here is a distilled snapshot of the wisdom of the ages on being happy and an honest indication of what works in my life. The first and most important point: There are no set formulas and there is no single path. You will find happiness and it will find you if, and only if, you condition yourself to do so.