The Happiness Makeover

Book excerpt: Learn How to Change Your Outlook on Life From one of the Creators of the New York Times bestselling Random Acts of Kindness series, M.J. Ryan teaches you the power of positive thinking. Train your brain to be optimistic, even in the darkest situations. From stress management tips to positive and motivational quotes, M.J. Ryan’s Happiness Makeover shows you how to transform your mindset so that you can face any difficult challenge thrown your way. We all want the things that we are sure will make us happy—money, success, independence, love. But when we finally get them, we can find to our surprise that we are the same miserable, moody, or just not really happy person we always were. Do things have to be that way? Absolutely not. Cultivating the ability to feel contentment is the key. There are people whose lives are full of serious challenges but who nevertheless feel peace and joy—and there are those who have few difficulties in life and yet feel hopeless. We can teach ourselves to be happy and enjoy every day, and M.J. Ryan, the bestselling author of The Power of Patience and Attitudes of Gratitude, shows us how. The Happiness Makeover gives you a plan that can help you: • Clear away happiness hindrances like worry, fear, envy, and grudges • Discover happiness boosters • Rewire your brain to experience joy • Learn to think optimistically If you enjoyed transformative journeys like A Year of Positive Thinking, The Happiness Equation, or Hardwiring Happiness, then you’ll love The Happiness Makeover.