How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People--Their Secret [Paperback]

Now featuring new research and the most current information on the science of happiness, this book presents an outline of the nine choices happy people consistently make.

Also included are tools for self-assessment to allow readers to measure happiness-and to find out what might be holding them back from having more of it. Insightful, intimate, and inspiring,How We Choose to Be Happylets readers learn by example, and take substantial steps toward joining the ranks of the extremely happy.Rick FosterandGreg Hicksare professional training consultants with a specialty in developing interpersonal skills. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area, they conduct workshops and seminars throughout the United States and internationally, in public, private, and corporate forums, including in such major venues as Hewlett Packard, Toyota America, U.C. Berkeley, and UCLA.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 - Intention

Chapter 2 - Accountability

Chapter 3 - Identification

Chapter 4 - Centrality

Chapter 5 - Recasting

Chapter 6 - Options

Chapter 7 - Appreciation

Chapter 8 - Giving

Chapter 9 - Truthfulness

Chapter 10 - Synergy

Afterword

“Foster and Hicks conduct workshops internationally in the development of interpersonal skills. For this book, they interviewed happy people from all walks of life, from the United States to Eastern Europe. The resulting personal stories, writing exercises, and quotes together inform and instruct the reader in the nine principles discovered by the authors in their travels. Recommended.”

—Library Journal