02069cam a2200265 a 4500001000800000003000900008005001700017008004100034020002500075040001300100041000800113082001500121100003900136245010000175260003700275300003000312520115500342650004501497650002201542650003301564650004301597942000701640999001701647952013901664TB12779IN-BhIIT20260218121343.0100226s2007    nyunnn|        z| | eng d  a9780749952464 (pbk.)  aIN-BhIIT  aeng  a158bLYU/H1 aLyubomirsky, Sonja.eAuthor92727514aThe how of happiness :ba practical approach to getting the life you want /cSonja Lyubomirsky.  aGreat Britain :bPiatkus,c2010.  a373 p. : bill. ;c18 cm.  aPresents a potentially life-changing approach to increasing happiness and fulfillment in everyday life. Redefines what happiness is and what it is not and introduces activities that emphasize staying active. Includes exercises in practicing optimism. 
Drawing on her own research with thousands of people, psychologist Lyubomirsky has pioneered a detailed yet easy-to-follow plan to increase happiness in our day-to-day lives--in the short and long term. This book that offers a guide to understanding what happiness is, and isn't, and what can be done to bring us all closer to the happy life we envision. Using more than a dozen happiness-increasing strategies, it offers a new way to understand our innate potential for joy and happiness as well as our ability to sustain it in our lives. Lyubomirsky's "happiness strategies" introduce readers to the concept of intentional activities that they can use to achieve a happier life, including exercises in optimism and how best to savor life's pleasures in the here and now. She also helps readers understand the obstacles to happiness as well as how to harness individual strengths to overcome them. 0aPsychology xApplied psychology924431 0aHappiness.923756 0aAttitude (Psychology)924375 0aSelf-actualization (Psychology)926250  cTB  c15308d15308  00102ddc40708SHSSMaCLIITBBSbCLIITBBSd2026-02-04e22g599.25l0o158 LYU/HpTB12779r2026-02-04 00:00:00v799.00w2026-02-04yTB