Heather Summers & Anne Watson 
The Book of Happiness 
Brilliant Ideas to Transform Your Life

The acclaimed authors of The Book of Luck are back with some
brilliant ideas for bringing more happiness into your life.

The Book of Happiness is more than just a practical guide to
improving your happiness levels. It’s a complete makeover, aimed at
putting a spring in your step, and a permanent lift to your
spirits. We all know happiness is a state of mind, but few of us
know how to improve our share of it. Many people think that
happiness just comes out of nowhere. Not so. The reality is you can
create your own happiness by choosing what you do, what you say,
where you go, what you remember, who and what you surround yourself
with, what you think and what you listen to.

The Book of Happiness kicks off with a Happiness Questionnaire
to give you an instant snapshot of your current state of mind. Once
you have scored yourself, you will learn the areas you need to
focus on. There is a workbook to complete at each key stage, as
well as stirring anecdotes, tips and happy thoughts to keep you
going.

Just remember: it only takes 21 days to get rid of an unwanted
habit and to acquire a new one. Isn’t it about time you got the
happiness habit?

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Authors.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: What is happiness and how to develop the
Happiness Habit.

1 The Happiness Questionnaire.

2 The Stairway of Happiness.

3 Surroundings.

Creating an environment that will increase your happiness.

What we mean by Surroundings.

How your Surroundings affect your happiness.

Brilliant Ideas for improving your Surroundings and growing the
Happiness Habit.

Workbook – practical actions you can take to increase the
amount of happiness in your Surroundings. Take the Happiness
Challenge!

4 Behaviour.

Changing what you do to create the Happiness Habit.

What we mean by Behaviour.

How your Behaviour affects your happiness.

Brilliant Ideas for improving your Behaviour and growing the
Happiness Habit.

Workbook – practical actions to increase the amount of
happiness that results from the things you do. Take the Happiness
Challenge!

5 Skills and Capabilities.

Making the most of your talents and using them to develop new
happiness skills.

What we mean by Skills and Capabilities.

How your Skills and Capabilities affect your happiness.

Brilliant Ideas for improving your Skills and Capabilities to
grow the Happiness Habit.

Workbook – practical actions you can take to make the most
of your Skills and Competencies and therefore increase your
happiness. Take the Happiness Challenge!

6 Values and Beliefs.

Being true to what you value and believe so that it adds to the
happiness in your life.

What we mean by Values and Beliefs.

How Values and Beliefs affect your happiness.

Brilliant Ideas for living your life according to your true
Values and Beliefs – and therefore increasing your
happiness.

Workbook – practical actions you can take to make the most
of the Values and Beliefs that work for you and which will
result in happiness. Take the Happiness Challenge!

7 Identity – Be Yourself.

Being yourself – seeing yourself for who you are and using
this knowledge to get the happiness you truly deserve.

What we mean by Identity.

How your Identity affects your happiness.

Brilliant Ideas for getting to know who you are and to be happy
within yourself.

Workbook – practical actions you can take to increase the
amount of happiness resulting from being true to yourself. Take the
Happiness Challenge!

8 Purpose.

Being more than yourself – finding the path to the Purpose
and meaning in your life.

What we mean by Purpose.

How your Purpose affects your happiness.

Brilliant Ideas for fi nding your Purpose in life and feeling
happy about why you are here.

Workbook – practical actions you can take to set a course
for happiness in your life. Take the Happiness Challenge!

Appendix 1: Happiness and Work – Questionnaire.

Appendix 2: Lancaster University Research Findings.

Index.

Über den Autor

Heather Summers began her career with British Airways where
she worked in a variety of sales, training and management roles
before leaving to run the training department at the then infamous
London Borough of Islington. She was the first woman senior manager
in Yorkshire Electricity, moving on from there to become Chief
Executive of ABL (Bradford) Ltd. She is an experienced senior
executive and human resources consultant. She runs her own
successful consultancy business specialising in training and
personal growth coaching. Her qualifications include MBA, Master
Practitioner of NLP and a Diploma in Performance Coaching. She is
also qualified in psychometrics (Saville and Holdsworth Ability
and Personality tests – and Myers Briggs).

Anne- Watson spent 18 years building up a successful
and highly profitable research based headhunting business that was
finally sold in March 1998. She now focuses on performance
management and performance enhancement consultancy. She runs Luck
Workshops with Heather Summers, challenging participants to take
charge of their own destiny and outperform their own
expectations.