Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents by Christine Carter, Ph.D. 2011, Ballantine Books The Idea Christine Carter, the executive director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, provides a blueprint for raising happier children and becoming happier yourself in the process. She distills research in the fields of psychology, […]
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Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day by Andy Puddicombe 2012, St. Martin’s Griffin The Idea You can travel anywhere in the world, but if you’re suffering from ennui when you depart, chances are those feelings are going to follow you to your destination. You can’t escape your
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I Will Teach You to Be Rich By Ramit Sethi 2009, Workman Publishing Company The Idea This book helps you take inventory of your financial situation, so you can put it on auto-pilot and get back to living your life sans looming money guilt. Recommended For If you’ve never had the time or energy to think
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I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough” by Brene Brown 2007, Avery The Idea Shame is harmful. And because it’s not as glamorous as something like failure (seriously), we don’t talk about it. In this book, Brene Brown tackles the tricky topic
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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen 2000, Penguin Books The Idea The hardest conversations are typically the most important ones (and the easiest to screw up). Thankfully, three smart souls from the Harvard Negotiation project have hooked us up with this gem, a book that
The Idea Multi-tasking doesn’t make you more productive. To become more effective, you need to narrow your focus and do less. This book urges you to pause before you start a new project and ask yourself—“What’s the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”