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Still Be Happy
By Hugh Prather; Magna Publishing Co., Ltd., 2002
Dissatisfaction or unhappiness control, the best solution is often
with so much in life can drag you readily at hand simply change BOOK OF THE WEEK:
down: your jobs, your physical your attitudes and be more open
appearance, problems with love, to being happy.
money, and health, for instance.
These and other such concerns, In How to Live in the World and
if focused on enough and given Still Be Happy, Hugh Prather
enough importance, can often shows how to reverse the
crush hope and defeat attitudes that hold you back from
happiness. discovering happiness. He
focuses on significant individual
Yet there is a flip side: situations issues that serve as roadblocks
such as these can also present that prevent many from attaining
powerful opportunities to choose happiness, and suggests
happiness and deepen peace, if workarounds in the form of
you are only sensitive enough to attitude changes to enable
k n o w h o w t o t u r n sufferers to get over them.
disadvantageous situations to
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your own advantage. But for
situations that are beyond your
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The Big Idea waiting for you to drop your guard.
Dissatisfaction or unhappiness with so much in life
can drag you down: your jobs, your physical However, what did being sick with dread
appearance, problems with love, money, and ever do to protect you? Fear is mere static
health, for instance. These and other such and can cause its own sorts of problems and
concerns, if focused on enough and given enough results, if you are scared enough to do
importance, can often crush hope and defeat desperate or stupid things because of it.
happiness.
And a happy thought and all the goodness
Yet there is a flip side: situations such as these can and kindness that flows from it does touch
also present powerful opportunities to choose everyone for the better, and does manage to
happiness and deepen peace, if you are only improve people's lives, even for just a short
sensitive enough to know how to turn while or by a short amount. No amount of fear
disadvantageous situations to your own advantage. and hand-wringing over being happy and
But for situations that are beyond your control, the carefree can change that.
best solution is often readily at hand simply change
your attitudes and be more open to being happy.
Concentration. Be single-minded,
purposeful, focused. Know who you are and
what you want.
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