365 Health & Happiness Boosters [Paperback]

MJ Ryan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2000

This popular book, now back in stock with a new cover design, rests on the assumption that you can be happier, no matter who you are or what your challenges.

Happiness begets happiness. When a person is happy, the feeling ripples out to others nearby. Research has shown that happiness also leads to better health. One-third of the population knows the secret to happiness - that it's an inside job, not contingent on possessions, status, or even life circumstances. Fortunately, the other two-thirds can learn to cultivate contentment.

This book offers 365 concrete ways to experience more happiness. Many have to do with changing one's outlook and learning to lift one's spirit in the moment; others address everything from eating habits and interactions with others to sleeping patterns and taking nutritional supplements. Some of the tasks are lighthearted, others quite serious. They all will have a positive effect on mind, body, and spirit.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Reading this book is like lifting my face to the sun each morning. Every little ray of M.J. Ryan's wisdom warms the heart." -Sue Patton Thoele, author of Courage to Be Yourself

About the Author

M.J. Ryan is an inspirational speaker and human development expert, and the author of several bestselling books, including Attitudes of Gratitude and This Year I Will: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True. She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit her online at www.mj-ryan.com

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Conari Press; 1 edition (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573245003
• ISBN-13: 978-1573245005
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,958 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

M.J. combines a practical business perspective gained as a CEO of a publishing company with a strength-based approach to help clients reach professional and personal goals. Using methodologies from positive psychology and neuroscience, she is able to quickly identify a client's underlying thinking talents and helps them efficiently use them to overcome challenges and maximize success. She has coached many high level executives as well as entrepreneurs and individuals around the world who want lives of greater purpose and success.

Her clients include Frito Lay, Microsoft, Royal Dutch Shell, the U.S. military, Hewitt Associates, SRAK (a joint venture between Shell and the Saudi Arabian National Oil Company), the Cowell Foundation, the Boys and Girls Club, and the town of Paradise, Ca.

She is the author of many best-selling books including her latest ADAPTABILITY: How to Survive Change You Didn't Ask For and THIS YEAR I WILL...How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution or Make A Dream Come True.

www.MJ-Ryan.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Increase Your Happiness Now, August 3, 2005

By 

Julie Jordan Scott "Writer, Life Coach - Owne... (Bakersfield, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 365 Health & Happiness Boosters (Paperback)

This little book is chock full of helpful suggestions
from the very "easy to get along with" author, MJ
Ryan. What I love the most about this book is
that Ms. Ryan offers such a variety of ideas AND
she shares ideas that DON'T work for her that
MAY be helpful to you. She doesn't make those
ideas WRONG, she simply says "I don't value
this but many do" such as Walking Meditation... and
she gripes about exercise yet asks you to do it
and maybe, then, she will feel energized to
exercise, too.

Some of my favorite suggestions include
creating a drawer of happinesss enhancers,
Call in Well (this is on my Son's birthday, May
6... it isn't a national holiday YET!).... Walking
Meditation... (I love walking meditation, works
wonders for me..... and is on August 19, my daughter
Emma's birthday).... and Dedicate this Day...
by sending positive loving feelings to someone
in need (this is on December 25, my daughter
Katherine's birthday.)

This book is a perfect one to use as a daily
companion, taking one day at a time - or for
a quick pick-me-up, thumb to any page
and apply what you learn.

Great stuff!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Friend Indeed, February 5, 2002

By 

Elisabeth Hallett (Hamilton, MT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 365 Health & Happiness Boosters (Paperback)

This book is so much fun! I've only been working with it for a week but I can definitely feel a change, a lift in my spirits. By reading only one day's suggestion (okay, it's really tempting to read ahead, but resist the urge!) you have a fresh idea to anticipate and savor each day. You'll be invited to ponder questions that gently unlock happiness-enhancing insights. It is like having a friend along on the daily journey of life, a wise and supportive voice that helps keep you focused on the simple and readily available means of fostering your own happiness.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars thoughtful desk companion, July 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 365 Health & Happiness Boosters (Paperback)

M.J. Ryan is a fantastic writer who brings truly heart warming wisdom onto the pages of this book. It's a great book to keep at work or at your desk at home fora brief uplifting note on those though days. Suggestions such as "hold a pity party," "commit to loving better" and "identify your hot buttons," Ryan offers ways to free up you rmind, body, and spirit.