Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2009 - Psychology - 276 pages
The passion for life lists has spawned an industry that includes thoughtful experts such as Caroline Miller, a life coach and motivational book author, and Dr. Michael Frisch, a positive psychology coach and clinical psychologist at Baylor University. Working together, they have fashioned the most useful, science-based, and up-to-date book on the topic of goal setting and accomplishment.
Creating Your Best Life supplies dozens of interactive exercises and quizzes readers can use to identify their most cherished needs, ambitions, and wishes. The exercises are fun, making the process of self-discovery enjoyable and productive. The authors’ unique "life list coaching” program organizes life lists into 16 key areas that are universally known to make people happy--to help you actually achieve your aspirations. No other life list book offers research-validated information on why certain steps matter in goal accomplishment, or even how goals are connected with any type of life satisfaction.
Readers will feel both educated and inspired to start writing goal-setting lists in order to live their lives more consciously, productively, and happily.
 

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Contents

THE ROYAL ROAD TO HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS
3
WHATS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT HAPPINESS ANYWAY?
15
HOW HAPPY ARE YOU?
28
CREATING YOUR BEST POSSIBLE LIFE LIST
47
LIFECHANGING GOALS
49
CREATING THE LIST THAT WORKS FOR YOU
61
WILLPOWER WHY YOU MUST SAY NO SOMETIMES
77
RISKS THAT PAY OFF
90
YOUR BODY MIND AND SOUL GOALS
163
LIVE LAUGH LOVE
170
CAN MONEY BUY HAPPINESS?
179
THE SURROUNDINGS THAT SHAPE YOU
188
SAVORING THE WINS
195
CELEBRATING THE WINS
197
HITTING SPEED BUMPS
210
LIFE LIST EXERCISES AND WORKSHEETS
223

THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
103
TATTOOS LICENSE PLATES AND CITRUSY SCENTS
118
YOU GOTTA HAVE GRIT
137
PERSONALIZING YOUR GOALS IN SIXTEEN LIFE SPHERES
147
MISSION STATEMENTS AND MORALS
149
THE HOLY GRAIL OF HAPPINESS
155
NOTES
255
RESOURCES
266
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
269
INDEX
271
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