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How to Live a Good Life
How to Live a Good Life: A Practical Guide to a Life Well Lived | Jonathan Fields
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Nearly every choice we make and action we take, from adolescence to death, is driven by a single, all-consuming quest: to live a good life. Problem is, there's no clear, practical road map to get there. No single collection of proven strategies that don't require you to buy into a particular doctrine, dogma, faith, or belief in order for you to get the proverbial keys to the good-life castle. At the same time, a mountain of misinformation distracts and deludes millions into actions and paths destined to fail, then lays blame when the absolute truths offered yield nothing more than absolute misery. How to Live a Good Life is your antidote: a practical and provocative modern-day manual for the pursuit of an extraordinary life. No need for blind faith or surrender of intelligence; everything you'll discover is immediately actionable and subject to validation through your own experience. You will discover 12 elements, drawn from the intersection of science, spirituality, and the author's years-long global quest to interview and learn at the feet of masters from nearly every tradition and walk of life. You will: Explore a side of happiness that will not only lead to more joy but also awaken you to forgiveness. Learn how to cultivate a fierce sense of meaning and purpose in all you do. Discover the unlikely marriage between gratitude and desire and the futility of the near delusional optimism that infects so much of today's personal-growth landscape. Revel in the power of belonging and learn how to cultivate it. Open to both the responsibility and the gift of freedom, and the transformative power of compassion. Understand how to stop living a stress-addled, checked-out, punch-list life and revel in the grace and gift of present awareness. Discover how to reclaim your sleep, movement, and nutrition, and seed a wellspring of health and vitality. Though respectful of tradition, spirituality, and faith, there will be no sacred cows. Long-held myths, often taught as truths, will nonetheless end up busted. Ideas you've held dear will be challenged, then replaced with a new set of guidelines that will, maybe for the first time, unlock a future you've sensed was always there but until now has felt perpetually just beyond reach.
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Hforrester12
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Starting my first book of the year a few hours early.....

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levi
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I really liked this book, but I didn't finish it because self-development authors are getting really predictable these days. I loved the explanation of each "bucket," and I'll remember that for a long time, but I just wasn't gonna like the whole thing.

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TomesandTequila
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Pickpick

I loved this book.. a total 5 star for me, and just in time for the goals I've set for 2017. A terrific read and full of good journal work.

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TomesandTequila
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Loving this book so far...shoving Christmas chocolate wrappers in sections for note taking later on!!

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Carol
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This might end up being too wishy and less actiony, but I'm willing to give it a whirl for my library's blog. We are low on self-help reviews and I'm one of the few nonfiction readers. Also the yellow really set off the dinos on my dress today. 💛💛💛

Vexingcircumstance I find a lot of self help books to be to wishy and not enough actiony. That said, when dealing with things like PTSD and Anxiety (like I do) some of the books focused on mindfulness and trying to focus and be centered onthe moment you are in are actually helpful and while seeming a bit wishy at first are actually actiony inthe sense that that help you center yourself to make it easier to get things done. 8y
Dorianna Unfortunately for this book, I read it as "How to Live a Goodlier" as I'm scanning through my feed. It's 3:40am here, I have insomnia, and my brain stopped working about an hour ago. It's becoming a bit of a problem. 8y
Lindy A dress with yellow dinosaurs sounds awesome. 😊 8y
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Carol @Vexingcircumstance I agree--I think meditation would totally be actiony. I think this book will have some of that. I'm all for meditation, less for things like "just imagine yourself being calm." That's a little different and I hope this book doesn't do that. I'll let you know how it goes! 8y
Carol @Dorianna oh lol now I am seeing it that way too! 😂 Hope you got some rest. 8y
Carol @Lindy I always wear a yellow cardigan with this Dino dress. I'm like an explosion of color in the dreary library basement hallways. ❤💛💚💙💜 8y
Chessa Dino dress!!! 😍😍😍 8y
Carol @Chessa ModCloth! 😍 8y
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