Happiness...as a Second Language: A Guidebook to Achieving Lasting, Permanent Happiness (The Speak Happiness! personal growth and development series) - Softcover

Alexander, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484101189 ISBN 13: 9781484101186

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Happiness is within your reach!

Are you hoping for your circumstances to change so that you can be happy?
Stop waiting!
Start working towards a happier life now.

Renowned happiness & inclusion expert, Valerie Alexander, shares her own deeply personal journey from despair to lasting happiness, and has broken the work down into simple practices you can do to raise your Happiness Baseline every day.

Happiness as a Second Language is one of the top-reviewed Happiness books on Amazon -- and for good reason!

Check out what readers are saying:

• "Easy to read, yet deep and meaningful, and very powerful."
• "This book gives real advice, for real people!"
• "It's like a GPS for your happiness journey."

Using this book as your guide, you will learn:

• "Signal boosters" to help you acknowledge and retain happy thoughts and feelings
• Simple techniques to recover more quickly from unhappy moments
• How to overcome those who actively try to negate your happiness
• Key phrases in your new language
• Skills to get you past the setbacks that happen when learning anything new

If happiness wasn't practiced in your home growing up, how would you expect to know it now?
Stop thinking of happiness as an emotion you need to feel and start thinking of it as an instinct you can develop -- like the language you naturally speak!

Happiness is within your reach.

Order now and start developing the skills to get there!

You'll be fluent in Happiness before you know it.

About this title

About the Author

Valerie Alexander is an author, speaker, entrepreneur and filmmaker. Her books include: Happiness as a Second Language, Success as a Second Language, and How Women Can Succeed in the Workplace (Despite Having "Female Brains"), and she is the trademark holder of the phrase, "...as a Second Language" for all self-help and personal growth titles, of which there are several more in the pipeline. 

She has spoken at numerous companies, conferences and colleges on the topics of Happiness, Happiness in the Workplace and the Advancement of Women, and has appeared on more than 100 talk shows, radio programs, podcasts and web summits as an expert in these areas.

As a screenwriter, Valerie has worked with Joel Schumacher, Catherine Zeta Jones, Barry Sonnenfeld, Ice Cube, and others. She made her directing debut with the film, Making the Cut, and has written, produced and directed more than 50 short films, commercials and PSAs, most notably the anti-bullying short, Ballpark Bullies, and the groundbreaking ad, Say I Do, in support of marriage equality.  

Prior to screenwriting, Valerie was a corporate securities lawyer with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, where she was one of the lead attorneys on some of the largest IPOs of the Internet era, including E*TRADE. She was an investment banker with SG Cowen and the VP of Business Development for PixelWorld Networks and The CLIC. 

Valerie taught at U.C., Berkeley and the Berkeley Law School, and has her BA from Trinity University, her MS from U.C., Berkeley, and her JD from Berkeley Law. She also holds an Honors Certificate in the Science of Happiness from U.C., Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. 

Valerie makes her home in Los Angeles, where she and her husband, writer/producer Rick Alexander, live with their ill-mannered German Shepherd, Pepper. 

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484101189
• ISBN 13: 9781484101186
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148