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A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment

Resources

Global Happiness Graphs

  1. Happiness Levels By Age
  2. Happiness Levels By Education
  3. Happiness Levels By Income comparison
  4. Happiness Levels By Country

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Happiness Accelerator – The Happiness App

Read more about the app. Download for Android here.  And for iOS click here.

ALOHAF Poster

Henrique Neffa created this summary of 7 sins and habits of the highly happy in one neat poster. Check it out!

Books

  1. Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life. by Barbara Fredrickson
  2. Laughter: A Scientific Investigation. by Robert R. Provine
  3. The High Price of Materialism. by Tim Kasser
  4. Man’s Search for Meaning. by Viktor E. Frankl and William J. Winslade
  5. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. by Daniel H. Pink
  6. The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. by Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
  7. Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. by Herminia Ibarra
  8. The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want. by Sonja Lyubomirsky
  9. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love. by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
  10. Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success. by Adam M. Grant
  11. Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton
  12. Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become. by Barbara Fredrickson
  13. Influence: Science and Practice. by Robert B. Cialdini
  14. Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long. by David Rock
  15. Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America. by Barbara Ehrenreich
  16. Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think. by Brian Wansink
  17. Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes. by Tom Rath
  18. How the Mind Works. by Steven Pinker
  19. Smart Trust: The Defining Skill that Transforms Managers into Leaders. by Stephen M.R. Covey and Greg Link
  20. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. by Robert D. Putnam
  21. The Truth About Trust: How It Determines Success in Life, Love, Learning, and More. by David DeSteno
  22. The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t Make You Happy, but Does. by Sonja Lyubomirsky
  23. The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind. by B. Alan Wallace and Daniel Goleman
  24. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. by Sam Harris
  25. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story. by Dan Harris
  26. How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life. by Thomas Gilovic
  27. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. by Steven Pressfield and Shawn Coyne
  28. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace). by Chade-Meng Tan and Daniel Goleman
  29. Smart Change: Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others. by Art Markman PhD
  30. Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts–Becoming the Person You Want to Be. by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
  31. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful. by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
  32. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. by Jonathan Haidt
  33. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard. by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
  34. Why does the world exist?: by Jim Holt