Choose the Life You Want: 101 Ways to Create Your Own Road to Happiness - Hardcover

Ben-Shahar PhD, Tal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1615190651 ISBN 13: 9781615190652

Publisher: The Experiment, 2012

Synopsis

Sometimes the hardest part of decision-making is being aware that there€™s a decision to be made in the first place. Choose the Life You Want shows us how we can view our lives as a series of choices. Tal Ben-Shahar advocates a proactive approach to well-being in which every moment offers opportunities for positive changes in our lives. He promises no simple trick or secret, no quick-fix for instant improvement. Instead, he proposes being continuously mindful of the power we hold to choose our courses of action at every moment of our lives. As Ben-Shahar himself writes, €œThe dramas of life€™s €˜big decisions€™ (which, almost by definition, are few and far between) should not hide the fact that in life we face choices all the time. Every moment of our waking lives we face choices whose cumulative effect on us is just as great, if not greater, than the effect of the big decisions. I can choose whether to sit up straight or stooped; whether to say a

About this title

About the Author:

Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD, taught the historically largest course at Harvard, “Positive Psychology,” and the third largest, “The Psychology of Leadership,” attracting 1,400 students per semester—approximately 20 percent of all Harvard graduates. Ben-Shahar obtained his BA and PhD from Harvard, and for the last fifteen years has been teaching leadership, happiness, and mindfulness to audiences all over the world. He is the author of five previous books, including international bestsellers Happier and Being Happy, which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

Review:

“With his customary insight, Tal Ben-Shahar lays out the elements of a happier life in short, thought-provoking chapters that will inspire readers both to think more deeply about their lives—and to take action to turn those ideas into reality.”
—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

“Tal Ben-Shahar has done it again! This book will not only change the way you think about your life, but how you choose to live it.”
—Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason

“Dr. Ben-Shahar provides eloquent and clear strategies for living in the potency of daily awareness and choice. He takes the most common tests and traps we face as human beings and enables us to look clearly at options to make us more alive, more mindful and happy. He challenges us to find our freedom to make the choice for the life we want.”
—David Surrenda, PhD, CEO, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and author of Retooling on the Run

“By offering 101 powerful yet actionable ways to live a more meaning-full life, Tal has done most of the heavy lifting for us. In the end, he leaves us with perhaps the simplest choice of all: Read this book!”
—Scott A. Snook, MBA, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

About this edition

• Publisher: The Experiment
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1615190651
• ISBN 13: 9781615190652
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304