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Overview

Happiness isn't the too-brief rush that comes from getting something you've wanted-it's the lasting great feeling that comes from becoming someone you want to be. And someone others want to be with, too. No matter where you start, Happy can help you improve your life and permanently alter your level of happiness.

Dr. Ian has inspired millions to lose weight. In counseling dieters, he learned that while achieving hard-fought goals can help make a person happy, even real accomplishments may not make happiness stick. In Happy, Dr. Ian Smith presents a simple program that motivates readers to understand the behaviors and mindsets that work and last, including:

How to be optimistic

Why optimism and realism are not opposites

The importance of family and community

Tapping the power of simple pleasures

Mastering modern life to live in the moment

What we can learn from the Danish people

Happy is a life-changing book from one of America's most trusted voices.

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"Don't worry; be happy" is well-intentioned advice that won't go far with most doubters. What does work is a realistic motivation booster that makes good sense and changes your behavior. Ian K. Smith's Happy does just that by applying the same realistic, perennially positive approach that enables him to be such a successful diet guru. This succinct primer teaches readers how to understand and change their mindsets and enhance their human involvement. Realistic optimism sensibly presented.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312672775
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 12/21/2010
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 320,117
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Ian K. Smith, M.D., is the number one bestselling author of The Fat Smash Diet, Extreme Fat Smash Diet, The 4 Day Diet, The 4 Day Detox and EAT. He is a medical contributor on The View and The Rachael Ray Show, the diet expert on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club, and host of the nationally syndicated radio show Healthwise on American Urban Radio Networks. He writes a medical column for Men’s Health magazine. He has written for various publications including Time and Newsweek, and been featured in People, Essence, Ebony and Cosmopolitan, among others. He is a former medical correspondent for NBC and for NewsChannel 4 in New York, where he filed reports for NBC’s Nightly News and The Today Show. In 2007, he created the 50 Million Pound Challenge, a free national weight loss initiative with a growing list of more than 1.9 million people registered. Dr. Smith graduated from Harvard College with an AB and received a master’s in science education from Columbia University. He attended Dartmouth Medical School and completed the last two years of his medical education and graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. A native of Danbury, Connecticut, Dr. Smith currently resides in Manhattan.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Epiphany 1

1 What is Happiness? 15

2 Play to your Strengths 41

3 The Silver Lining 57

4 Simplicity is Bliss 81

5 North of Zero 103

6 The Art of Dreams 123

7 Happy at Work 141

8 Let it Flow 161

9 Happiness Boosters 175

10 Painting your Life's Landscape 199

Notes 221

Acknowledgments 225

Index 227

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  • Posted March 26, 2010

    This book CHANGED my life!!

    I got this book from a friend in the publishing industry before it was released. I read the entire book in one sitting. I couldn't stop reading and realizing how much all of the information applied to my life. Just reading the book was making me happier as I realized all of the things I've been doing wrong and how easy it was to do things right to make me feel better. This is a MUST have book. It's easily written. Well-researched and gives you great advice on how to boost your happiness. I plan on buying several copies and giving them to my friends who need a boost in these tough times. Dr. Smith, thanks so much for this book and changing my life.

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    All of us go through a time in our lives when being happy just doesn't seem realistic. When I was going through my divorce, I wasn't even able to remember what that five letter word meant. I wish that I would have had a copy of this book back then.

    Ian breaks the emotions down for you in an easy to understand manner that has such a positive feel to it that you can't help but feel better. Here is what you will learn from reading this book:

    --How to be optimistic

    --Why optimism and realism are not opposites

    --How to get outside yourself

    --The importance of family and community

    --Why involvement leads to contentment

    --Shedding the treadmill mentality of getting and spending

    --Tapping the power of simple pleasures

    --Mastering modern life to live in the moment

    --What we can learn from the Danish people

    --How to be, not just to do

    Ian is a natural writer who motivates and reassures readers that they are capable of happiness by setting their mentality and not giving up. This book would make a great graduation gift. I really enjoyed this book and all the lessons it taught me.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 13, 2010

    Anyone who has ever been depressed should read this book!

    It makes you realize that simple everyday things can change your life!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 7, 2010

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    9780979930218 9781616876418

    Everyone Needs A Little "Happy"

    I'm a HUGE FAN of Dr. Ian Smith and I have to say that this one is the icing on the cake. This book teaches you to take a good look at your life and the things that are important to you. These important things that we take for granted, are probably the simple things that make us really.....Happy.

    For anyone who feels bound by their anger, guilt, hurt or pain, I also recommend "When God Stopped Keeping Score." I thought that "When God Stopped Keeping Score" was just about overcoming forgiveness, I soon learned, it was about so much more than that. The author actually pulls back the curtain to his own life, to offer an intimate look at the true power of forgiveness and reveals the emotional price that you must be willing to pay to live without it.

    All of this, while still offering up interesting and often tear worthy stories that showed you just how you should deal with friends, family and more importantly, yourself when things do go wrong. The author more importantly reveals the key to keeping these relationships strong even in the face of adversity.

    Having read it, I feel like a better person. Maybe that's because this book spoke to me and not down to me. I have read a lot of books that was written like I didn't know anything. What the author of "When God Stopped Keeping Score" does is talk to you like a friend. I needed that. You will understand why when you read it for yourself. It is on sale here on BN.com.

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