Happiness...as a Second Language: A Guidebook to Achieving Lasting, Permanent Happiness (The Speak Happiness! personal growth and development series) - Softcover

Alexander, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484101189 ISBN 13: 9781484101186

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Happiness is within your reach!

Are you hoping for your circumstances to change so that you can be happy?
Stop waiting!
Start working towards a happier life now.

Renowned happiness & inclusion expert, Valerie Alexander, shares her own deeply personal journey from despair to lasting happiness, and has broken the work down into simple practices you can do to raise your Happiness Baseline every day.

Happiness as a Second Language is one of the top-reviewed Happiness books on Amazon -- and for good reason!

Check out what readers are saying:

• "Easy to read, yet deep and meaningful, and very powerful."
• "This book gives real advice, for real people!"
• "It's like a GPS for your happiness journey."

Using this book as your guide, you will learn:

• "Signal boosters" to help you acknowledge and retain happy thoughts and feelings
• Simple techniques to recover more quickly from unhappy moments
• How to overcome those who actively try to negate your happiness
• Key phrases in your new language
• Skills to get you past the setbacks that happen when learning anything new

If happiness wasn't practiced in your home growing up, how would you expect to know it now?
Stop thinking of happiness as an emotion you need to feel and start thinking of it as an instinct you can develop -- like the language you naturally speak!

Happiness is within your reach.

Order now and start developing the skills to get there!

You'll be fluent in Happiness before you know it.

About this title

About the Author

Valerie Alexander started her career in the Silicon Valley during the Dot-Com gold rush of the late 1990s, where she worked on some of the most high-profile transactions of the decade as a securities lawyer, an investment banker and an Internet executive. From 2000 to 2001, she returned to Indiana to care for her mother, and in her absence the Internet bubble burst, leaving her no choice but to move to Los Angeles to write and direct movies. As a screenwriter, Valerie has worked with Joel Schumacher, Catherine Zeta Jones, Ice Cube and others. Not satisfied writing scripts that never got made, she co-wrote, produced and directed the award-winning short film, Making the Cut, as well as numerous commercials and public service announcements. Valerie received her B.A. from Trinity University and her J.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. In the spring of 2010, she returned to Berkeley Law to teach the legal ethics seminar, “Representation of Law in Film,” and she continues to lecture at colleges and film schools across the country with her entertaining talk, “How to Survive in Hollywood (Despite Having a Female Brain).” Valerie lives in Los Angeles with her husband, writer and producer Rick Alexander, and their ill-mannered German Shepherd, Pepper.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484101189
• ISBN 13: 9781484101186
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 148