Climb Your Stairway to Heaven: The 9 Habits of Maximum Happiness

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Personal development written with pep and zest, humor and wit, emulating the author's highly energetic and interactive speaking style. It seeks not to answer the big questions in life, but to help readers increase their happiness through daily habits. Like a giant fortune cookie, it reveals wisdom, anecdotes, quizzes, exercises and examples from around the world to teach and entertain. The off-beat illustrations add a whimsical sensation to the book. "Self-help" has never been this much fun!Climb your Stairway to Heaven provides nine habits people can use in their daily lives to increase their level of happiness, regardless of how happy they feel now. The book is divided into four parts and one stretch. The first part
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Personal development written with pep and zest, humor and wit, emulating the author's highly energetic and interactive speaking style. It seeks not to answer the big questions in life, but to help readers increase their happiness through daily habits. Like a giant fortune cookie, it reveals wisdom, anecdotes, quizzes, exercises and examples from around the world to teach and entertain. The off-beat illustrations add a whimsical sensation to the book. "Self-help" has never been this much fun!Climb your Stairway to Heaven provides nine habits people can use in their daily lives to increase their level of happiness, regardless of how happy they feel now. The book is divided into four parts and one stretch. The first part helps readers understand the science of happiness. The second part, which is the largest, helps people feel comfortable and satisfied with themselves and their environments. It helps readers value who they are, what they do, what they have and how they feel. Hire a cheerleader. Break out of your comfort zone. Write yourself a very special letter. Travel in David's Incredible Time Machine. The Seventh Habit Stretch serves ups some food for thought on how our physical condition can affect our happiness. Defeat octopitis. The third part is about our relationships with others and how they can affect our happiness. Learn how to manage the Wheel of Friendship. Solve the riddle of altruism.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780595178261
  • Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 7/23/2001
  • Pages: 264
  • Sales rank: 540,181
  • Product dimensions: 5.94 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.65 (d)

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"You can define success as impressing yourself: that you are happy, that you stand by your values, that you feel fulfilled, that you love. Or you can define success as impressing others: that you have fame, status, money and toys, or even the appearance of a happy family."

"When you drive along the road and see the blacktop right in front of you, do you ever notice how many cracks and potholes appear? But look ahead several yards, and the surface looks smooth? ... Put in perspective, all those irritants, all those daily wrinkles, all the potholes and cracks along our path disappear when we look farther down the road."

"They replay the videos of their weddings, not their divorces. Why replay painful memories in the cinema of your mind? Reruns of joy -- repeat. Reruns of pain -- delete."

"Like hamburgers on the grill, teenage girls feel the heat and the pressure to squeeze every last ounce of fat from their bodies. If Claudia Schiffer can look so thin, so must they. If Naomi Campbell can be that slender, they can too. Why not?"

"Every face you meet is a mirror. Shine a smile on someone else's face, and see how your smile reflects back at you. Bask in the glow of your own smile reflected in the joy you bring to others."

Table of Contents

Dedication v
Contents vii
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue xi
Introduction xiii
Part I Understanding happiness 1
Chapter 1 The Wall and your Stairway 3
Chapter 2 The Merchants of Misery 14
Chapter 3 Making happiness a habit 28
Part II Happy with yourself 37
Habit # 1 Throw a parade in your honor 39
Chapter 4 Scraping the bug off the windshield 42
Chapter 5 Your cheering squad (Yay!) 52
Habit # 2 Distinguish yourself 64
Chapter 6 Who paints your portrait? 66
Chapter 7 Shine like a diamond 79
Habit # 3 Count your blessings 91
Chapter 8 Great expectations 93
Chapter 9 Happy Thanksgiving 106
Habit # 4 Learn, then burn 117
Chapter 10 Who you gonna blame? 119
Chapter 11 Take your hand off the hot stove 132
Chapter 12 Don't look back 143
Habit # 5 Carpe diem 155
Chapter 13 Hiding in the casket 157
Chapter 14 Do what you want to do 169
Break: Seventh habit stretch 181
Habits # 6 and # 7 Slow it down, pump it up 183
Chapter 15 Stressed or rest 185
Part III Happy with others 197
Habit # 8 Choose YouBet people 199
Chapter 16 The company you keep 201
Habit # 9 Spread the joy 214
Chapter 17 Put on a happy face 216
Chapter 18 Real virtuality 226
Conclusion: Enjoying happiness 237
Chapter 19 The view from the top step 239

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 3, 2002

    Climb Your Stairway to Heaven: The 9 Habits of Maximum Happiness

    This book has resonated with myself and many whom I love. I recommend this book very highly because of the excellently communicated message, anecdotes, quotes and most of all wit and humour. It is always by my bedside.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 14, 2002

    Climb Your Stairway to Heaven: The 9 Habits of Maximum Happiness

    The frankness of this author was much appreciated. His witt did not go unnoticed. But more importantly his messgage rang true and clear and helped me put things in perspective and reevaluate my life and the things I do to hinder it. It is so easy to be negative, it is a challenge to be positive and happy ... a battle worth winning I say! I love the drawings and found the quotes very inspiring. Being the kind of person that needs to hear about positivity to be positive, having this book by my bedside and flipping through the pages now and then keeps me on top of my game. Go ahead, make your life a happy one by picking up a copy of this book and applying its message to your life. You will see a difference, I know I did

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 28, 2001

    This book is fun

    This book is fun. Unlike some 'self help' books, it's not a psychology textbook, nor a chat with a therapist, nor a motivational monologue, nor a collection of sweet affirmations. This book is interactive. It's energy. It's fun.

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