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The Blue Zones of Happiness
The Blue Zones of Happiness: Lessons From the World's Happiest People | Dan Buettner
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New York Times best-selling author Dan Buettner reveals the surprising secrets of what makes the world's happiest places--and shows you how to apply these lessons to your own life. In this inspiring guide, you'll find game-changing tools drawn from global research and expert insights for achieving maximum fulfillment. Along the way, you'll: * Discover the three strands of happiness--pleasure, purpose, and pride--that feature prominently in the world's happiest places. * Take the specially designed Blue Zones Happiness Test to pinpoint areas in your life where you could cultivate greater joy, deeper meaning, and increased satisfaction. * Meet the world's Happiness All-Stars: inspiring individuals from Denmark to the United States who reveal dynamic, practical ways to improve day-to-day living. * Discover specific, science-based strategies for setting up a "life radius" of community, work, home, and self to create healthier, happiness-boosting habits for the long-term.
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DogMomIrene
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Quick read filled with actionable advice. These happiness strategies were not earth-shakingly new to me, but I appreciated the presentation. In particular, I found Buettner‘s approach to be quite practical. As my husband and I plan a move in 2021, this book has me thinking about how we‘ll organize our new home and build relationships in our new community. In the meantime, I can try to build a few of the habits he suggests like eating more veggies.

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DogMomIrene
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Finding things I can do more of to improve my happiness in this book. Many ideas here. Lots of highlights I will need to go through and add to my planner as aspirations, inspiration, and action items. Also, I‘m really happy that none of these highlights include a gratitude journal. I like the idea, in theory, but I‘ve never incorporated this concept well into my daily routine.

Suet624 I understand and stand right there beside you. I feel as though I do all of these things and I wouldn‘t say I‘m an overly happy person. 4y
DogMomIrene @Suet624 Thanks! I feel pretty neutral most of the time. I‘m happy in moments, mostly daily, but I don‘t think of myself as being happy or unhappy. This book piqued my interest and I will say that I‘m working on many of the ideas the author presents, but I haven‘t achieved the end-goal state. Work in progress, I guess. 4y
Suet624 As I‘ve gotten older I think neutral is a pretty nice place to live. 😀😀 4y
DogMomIrene @Suet624 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Particularly given the state of America. I spend a good portion of the day with CNN on in the background, so neutral does feel like an achievement. 4y
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DogMomIrene
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The author is actually quoting the authors of The World‘s Happiness Report. I‘m learning a lot about other cultures and how they view happiness through Buettner‘s research. Reading this book rather than watching CNN right now is quite helpful.