Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness: 101 Inspirational Stories about Finding Your Purpose, Passion, and Joy (Chicken Soup for the Soul (Quality Paper)) [Paperback]

Jack Canfield (Author), Mark Victor Hansen (Author), Amy Newmark (Author), Deborah Norville (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 25, 2011

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness will encourage readers to pursue their dreams, find their passion and seek joy in their life with its 101 personal and inspiring stories. This book continues Chicken Soup for the Soul’s focus on inspiration and hope, reminding us that we all can find our own happiness.

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About the Author

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen are co-founders of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Amy Newmark is publisher and editor-in-chief of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul; Original edition (October 25, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 193509677X
• ISBN-13: 978-1935096771
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Amy Newmark has led a successful 30-year career as a writer, speaker, financial analyst and business executive in the worlds of finance and telecommunications. Most recently, Newmark has teamed up with one of the most successful book series of all time - Chicken Soup for the Soul® - as publisher, author, and editor.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University in 1979, Newmark majored in Portuguese and minored in French, earning a summa cum laude on her thesis which concerned popular poetry in Brazil. She traveled throughout the povertystricken northeast section of Brazil while in college, meeting with poets and writers and collecting their stories for her dissertation on whether this form of popular expression would survive the modernization of Brazil.

Newmark then joined the commercial sector while a college senior, editing a newsletter about opportunities to sell telecom equipment in Brazil. This led to a new passion for the telecommunications industry, and she became a consultant to the industry, culminating in a position at the Gartner Group, where she wrote several books on telecommunications and ran the telecommunications services practice. Newmark then moved to Wall Street in 1981, where she spent many years writing and speaking about telecommunications and information services, providing her stock picks and pans to mutual funds and hedge fund clients.

Newmark started her own hedge fund in 1993, specializing in telecommunications and technology companies, and then joined the original management team of Winstar Communications, Inc. in 1995 as executive vice president of strategic planning. She left Winstar in 1997 and spent the next ten years serving on the boards of several public companies in telecommunications and technology. Newmark stepped in as publisher of Chicken Soup for the Soul in 2008, the year of the brand's fifteenth anniversary. She is delighted to have come full circle in her writing career - from collecting poetry "from the people" in Brazil as a 20-year-old, to 30 years writing about business, back to collecting stories and poems "from the people" for Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Since its first release in 1993, the Chicken Soup for the Soul series has sold more than 112 million copies with more than 180 titles and 40 languages. The brand holds a place in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most books on the New York Times bestseller list at one time, and in 2007, USA Today named Chicken Soup for the Soul one of the five most memorable and impactful books of the last quarter century. Today, Newmark is working to deliver the Chicken Soup for the Soul message of hope and inspiration all over the world. For more information, www.visit chickensoup.com.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Chicken Soup Book!, October 30, 2011

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In these tough economic times we sometimes need to be reminded to count our blessings and this wonderful book succeeds in achieving that goal. I especially enjoyed Section 6, The Joy of Giving. As a New Yorker I really related to Maureen C. Bruschi's story, "New York City's Greatest Underground Secret". Her honesty in the narrative and appreciation for the value of every individual made me reflect on my preconceived notions about people I really do not know. I have highly recommeded this thought provoking book to my colleagues, friends, and family and will be giving it out to many of them as a gift this holiday season. Keep up the good work!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Of The Best Books Ever Written About Positive Thinking, October 27, 2011

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Attitude is everything. It determines how you meet each day and confront every problem. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness is filled with stories about people thinking positive and using common sense to find joy in their lives. The stories in this book will have you counting your blessings pursuing your true passions. If you're depressed or in a bad mood, I guarantee you won't be after reading Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness. It's just what the doctor ordered..

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chick Soup Explores Happiness & Where To Find It In New Offering, January 18, 2012

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This review is from: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness: 101 Inspirational Stories about Finding Your Purpose, Passion, and Joy (Chicken Soup for the Soul (Quality Paper)) (Paperback)

Whenever a new book in the CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL series comes out I am always excited to see what they are discussing this time. Sure enough, FIND YOUR HAPPINESS, is just the book many of us need to be able to realize our purpose and how to walk in it.

Sharing stories of individuals just like us and those that we know, the book helps us to see that happiness is not always about some lofty achievement. It can just be realizing your strengths, what you are good at and enjoy and how to be the person that you were truly meant to be.

This isn't to say that there will not be problems or even disappointments, but it does mean that those don't have to stop us from looking for our place in the world and walking in it. When you finish this book you will probably find yourself asking 'Can this really work for me?' The answer is yes, but you have to do what it takes to make it work for you. If you do, then you can find the happiness that others are enjoying today.