[Pre Order] Will Bowen – Happy Stories

What if you could spend time with 50 of the happiest people alive today, hear their stories and ask them for happiness advice?

Happy Stories is a collection of powerful, bite-sized tales about real people who have figured out how to be happy. In Happy Stories you meet parents, businesspeople, entrepreneurs, students, retirees, construction workers, nonprofit directors, yoga teachers, high school principals, stay-at-home moms, artisans, and individuals from other walks of life. Each story is an inspiring and touching tale of a defining moment in that person’s life. At the end of each story, she or he shares 3 tips for happiness.

3 Common Characteristics Shared by Happy People:

1) They make a conscious decision to be happy. Most happy people have been through one or many difficult experiences in life. At some point, however, they make a conscious decision to release the past and be happy.

2) They define themselves as happy. Without exception, happy people state to the world and to themselves that they are happy. Their declaration of positive emotional well-being actually increases their level of happiness.

3) They make their own happiness a priority. Happy people guard their happiness to prevent it from being dragged away by a world that leans toward pessimism. They do this not only because it makes them feel good, but because happy people know the greatest gift they can give any relationship is the gift of their own happiness.