Happier Now: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Everyday Moments (Even the Difficult Ones)

Happier Now: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Everyday Moments (Even the Difficult Ones)

by Nataly Kogan
Happier Now: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Everyday Moments (Even the Difficult Ones)

Happier Now: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Everyday Moments (Even the Difficult Ones)

by Nataly Kogan

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Overview

Experience more joy and meaning each day—and have greater resilience when times get tough
 
What if you could be happier, right now, without radically changing your life? As nationally recognized happiness expert Nataly Kogan teaches, happiness is not a nice feeling or a frivolous extra. It’s a critical, non-negotiable ingredient for living a fulfilling, meaningful, and healthy life—and it’s a skill that we can all learn and improve through practice. In Happier Now, Nataly shares an illuminating, inspiring, and science-based guide to help you build your happier skills and live with more joy, starting now.

Nataly’s own journey from Russian refugee to successful investor, tech executive, and founder and CEO of Happier taught her an important lesson: no matter how much you accomplish, how much you live the “right” way, or even how much gratitude you practice, life won’t always be smooth. “We experience genuine and lasting happiness when we stop trying to turn the negative into the positive,” Nataly writes, “and when we embrace the full range of our human emotions with compassion and strength.”
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Throughout this engaging guide, Nataly describes how she went from being cynical and resistant to the ideas behind self-improvement and spirituality, to studying everything she could on the science of happiness, to completely shifting her mind-set. You’ll learn five core practices for building your happier skills—acceptance, gratitude, intentional kindness, knowing your bigger why, and self-care—along with the scientific research that supports each one.
 
Highlights include:
Daily Anchors—Cultivate a custom set of simple daily practices, fine-tuned for your emotional health needsBring more joy and meaning into your life as it is—without needing to make difficult or time-consuming changesHow happiness leads to many of the things you want in life, rather than results from themLearn an effective five-minute happier workout for whenever you need a boostStrengthen your “emotional immune system” so you can be okay when times are tough—and bounce back to happy soonerSpecific instructions for tools and techniques that work—based on what’s actually happening in your brainEffective exercises, journaling prompts, and key insights for developing each core happier skillAs Nataly says: “It’s time to stop saying ‘I’ll be happy when . . .’ and start saying ‘I’m happier now because . . .’”


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683641551
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Publication date: 05/01/2018
Sold by: Macmillan
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 1,035,982
File size: 729 KB

About the Author

Nataly Kogan
Nataly Kogan is a successful entrepreneur, sought-after keynote speaker, and the founder and CEO of Happier Inc., a company that has helped more than one million people live happier lives. She and her work have been featured in hundreds of media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, TEDx, and The Dr. Oz Show. For more, visit natalykogan.com.


Nataly Kogan is a leading expert in emotional fitness and leadership. After coming to the US as a refugee from the former Soviet Union, Nataly went on to have a successful career as a technology executive. But she suffered a debilitating burnout that led her to find a new way to work and live. Today, she helps hundreds of thousands of Awesome Humans struggle less and thrive more through speaking, leadership training programs, online courses, books, and The Awesome Human Podcast.

Table of Contents

Practices ix

Gratitudes xi

Introduction xv

Part 1 The Journey to Happier

Chapter 1 I'll Be Happy When 3

Chapter 2 Gratitude to the Rescue 17

Chapter 3 The Breaking Point 31

Chapter 4 It's Okay to Be Not Okay 45

Part 2 Cultivating Your Happier Skills

Chapter 5 Developing Your Happier Practice 63

Chapter 6 Acceptance 81

Chapter 7 Gratitude 107

Chapter 8 Intentional Kindness 129

Chapter 9 The Bigger Why 157

Chapter 10 Self-Care 179

Chapter 11 Becoming a Force of Good in the World 207

Epilogue A Letter to My Daughter 217

Select Bibliography 225

About the Author 227

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