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100	1		_aLyubomirsky, Sonja. _eAuthor _927275
245	1	4	_aThe how of happiness : _ba practical approach to getting the life you want / _cSonja Lyubomirsky.
260			_aGreat Britain : _bPiatkus, _c2010.
300			_a373 p. : _bill. ; _c18 cm.
520			_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.
650		0	_aPsychology  _xApplied psychology _924431
650		0	_aHappiness. _923756
650		0	_aAttitude (Psychology) _924375
650		0	_aSelf-actualization (Psychology) _926250
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