Happiness: It's All in Your Head

It's time to share another of my favorite books about growing your own happiness quotient. I love this book so much, I think it's going to take a few posts to highlight why.

Yes there are good signs that the economy is perking up, but for job candidates staying positive and keeping your motivation up are two essential keys to success that are SO very hard to accomplish while you are in it.

A minor setback can feel like a total kick in the gut unless you're paying close attention and monitoring your attitudes so that they don't interfere with the actions you want to take.

From Chapter 1, "It's All in Your Head"

"The keys to a fulfilled, joyous life are all in your head because they are attitudes, not actions. They're ways you need to think, not steps you need to take.

True happiness comes not from material, or external, factors, but from psychological, or internal factors. Happiness is a mental, not a physical state.

The good news is that this means that each and every one of us has the potential to be happy. The bad news is that your happiness is your own responsibility.

Part of our problem today, one reason we so readily look for happiness through materialism, is that we confuse pleasure with happiness. The former is a sensual feeling, the latter is spiritual.

A new attitude may not be able to change the world, but it can change your world. And that's nothing to sneeze at. The world is changed one person at a time."

See, that's plenty to chew on for one day.