Bright Side Up: 100 Ways to Be Happier Right Now [Paperback]

Amy Spencer (Author)

Book Description

Release date: February 7, 2012

You don't need to reinvent your whole life to be happier-you just need to turn it bright side up!

We all have those days when life could use a lift. Enter Bright Side Up, a clever and comforting compendium to help you shift your perspective and appreciate what's right in front of you. With the warmth and wisdom of a dear friend, this deceptively simple guide offers emergency optimism when you need it with fresh tips that can be put to use on the spot, including:

• Thank the lemons
• Rally in the rain delay
• Steer life like a motorcycle
• Ask your one-hundred-year-old self
• Plan your party story

  Dip in whenever you need a boost. Because when you can find the sunshine in your every day, you'll feel brighter, too.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Don't obsess about changing your life; change the way you look at the life you have. This pithy guide tells you how." 

-O, The Oprah Magazine

"Spread sunshine with 100 get-happy tips in Amy Spencer's Bright Side Up." 

-Self Magazine

"Want to become more optimistic? Place this engaging new book on your reading list." 
-Shape Magazine

"Spencer provides plenty of stories from her own life--some hilarious, others heart wrenching--that illustrate how this advice has helped her through her harder moments, and her warm, engaging tone will make you feel like you've got a new best friend in your corner." 
-Judy Dutton, author of Science Fair Season, on PsychologyToday.com blog

"Everyone has days that don't go so well. You might not need 100 ways to cope with those days, but everyone will find something that resonates in this engaging and clever collection to light a way back to a better day and perhaps a better self." 
-Suzanne C. Segerstrom, Ph.D., author of Breaking Murphy's Law

About the Author

Amy Spencer is a Los Angeles-based author and journalist, and the author of Meeting Your Half-Orange: An Utterly Upbeat Guide to Using Dating Optimism to Find Your Perfect Match. Her articles have appeared in Glamour, New York, Redbook, CNN.com, Harper's Bazaar, Health, Real Simple and others. Visit her website at amyspencer.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade; 1 Original edition (February 7, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399537279
• ISBN-13: 978-0399537271
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,396 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Amy Spencer grew up in Sea Cliff, New York, spent a decade in Manhattan and now resides in Venice, California with her half-orange, her husband.

Amy is the author of BRIGHT SIDE UP: 100 Ways to Be Happier Right Now (Perigee, 2012) and MEETING YOUR HALF-ORANGE: An Utterly Upbeat Guide to Using Dating Optimism to Find Your Perfect Match (Running Press, 2010). Read more about the books at brightsideup.com and meetingyourhalforange.com.

Amy provides doses of life and love positivity on her site TheLifeOptimist.com, offers "Assignment Optimism" tips on Twitter (twitter.com/@datingoptimist) and creates the happiest email you'll get all week, VITAMIN OPTIMISM, which offers an small optimism practice you can try each week--you can sign up for it on Amy's website, AmySpencer.com.

Amy's a magazine journalist who has written for Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, New York magazine, CNN.com, Redbook, Health and others. Prior to writing full-time, she was an editor at MAXIM, GLAMOUR and STAR magazines. She was a radio host on Sirius XM radio and has appeared on NBC, CBS, VH1 and the E! channel and more. She created Half-Orange Optimisms for the iPhone, which appeared in the "Featured Apps" section of the App store, made the App store's "What's Hot" list and was featured in New York's The Daily News. And when she's not writing, Amy loves biking, taking photographs, watching television cooking shows and she absolutely lives for popcorn.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Bright Side Up - What a Fun-Filled Way to View Life April 15, 2012

By Margaret G. DaValt

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

Amy Spencer had me hooked in her first book, "Meeting Your Half-Orange." I am a weekly fan of her Vitamin Optimism Blog/Newsletter and I was THRILLED when she announced a new book project. So, I did what any bookworm would do, I pre-purchased it on Amazon.com!! (Nope not into the Kindle yet...I love my books...mmmmmmm to smell that new book...just brightens up my day, almost as much as a tub of popcorn in the movie theatre.)

Amy Spencer with her incredible wit, charm, saavy and the information/data to back it all up creates a most enlightning book on a different way to "spin" your life when it's not going as you want it to. She offers the advice in a non-threatening and an almost, "I wanna try that" mode so that, as a reader, I was hooked.

I love Amy's style of bolding text she wants you to remember....that makes it easier to pick out the theme of the entry for the day, the week, however you choose to read her book, especially when you go back to re-read it or save it for another day.

Having learned from others, Neale Donald Walsch, Arielle Ford, Debbie Ford and Sarah Ban Breathnach about enjoying and living in the moment, I'd rank Amy Spencer right up there with those wonderful authors who do really help us to see "The Bright Side Up."

Thank YOU, Amy, for sharing your wisdom and insight with me. What's your next project?? :=)

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Bright Side Up is my new favorite! February 13, 2012

By Eva

Format:Paperback

Having read most of the books in the Happiness genre, I can honestly say that Bright Side Up is my new favorite! Amy Spencer is a wonderful writer who conveys very doable ways for us to be happier every day. Her real life examples and sincere communication style make the suggestions she offers extremely doable! I loved this book and am excited to send copies to friends and clients who I know will benefit from Amy's wisdom.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A Pick-up February 15, 2013

By Angela Hutchison

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I haven't gotten to read it yet but my friend is really enjoying it. She said she want her husband to read it when he is depressed