Buy the Book! Announcing an updated edition of How We Choose to Be Happy with a new Introduction highlighting the connection between the 9 Choices and optimal health. Read more... "How do I help my patients learn to be happy? I prescribe this book!" Nicholas LaRusso, MD. Chair, Dept of Medicine, Mayo Clinic "...insightful and wise...this book includes uplifting stories of people who have learned to be happy." Fit magazine	How We Choose To Be Happy Rick Foster & Greg Hicks Leadership Development - Team Dynamics Training - Executive Coaching 4053 Harlan Street, loft 201, Emeryville, CA 94608 phone: (510) 540-1241 fax: (240) 332-8483 email: info@fosterhicks.com How We Choose To Be Happy - Updated When Rick Foster and Greg Hicks set out to discover the "secrets" of happiness, their journey took them from cafes in San Francisco to corporate board rooms in New York to living rooms in rural Alabama. Their in-depth interviews involved people from virtually every walk of life: a corporate manager in Seattle balancing the demands of her career and her young family, a retired doctor and Holocaust survivor living by the canals of Amsterdam, a cafeteria worker struggling to make ends meet, a middle-aged woman battling breast cancer. What this research revealed, and what is so succinctly and compellingly presented in this book, are the traits shared by those people who, by definition and self-assessment, are extremely happy. What distinguishes these people are the nine choices they make throughout their lives — choices that determine their behavior in a wide range of circumstances. And what How We Choose to Be Happy shows is how anyone can incorporate these choices into their own lives to create personal happiness. For an extraordinary read, new insight into the nature of deep, enduring happiness, and an unforgettable introduction to extremely happy people throughout the country, read this book. Early Reviews "Happiness is reading this gem of a book!" Lynn Redgrave, actress "My plan was to read the book long enough to decide if I would write a testimonial. In a short time I found myself in the middle of a remarkable torrent of brilliant ideas, all delivered in a warm and sturdy format. I realized that at some unnoticed moment I had changed and I was now reading because I was convinced the book would be of great personal value to me — it could help me find more happiness. It is a delightful and boundlessly valuable book, especially for those readers willing to explore the possibility that happiness is something we can all chose." Will Schutz, Ph.D. Author of Joy, Joy: 20 Years Later and The Human Element "This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to be happy — and who doesn't. Rick Foster and Greg Hicks clearly show us that happiness does not happen by chance, but by choice." Matt Weinstein Author of Managing to Have Fun and Work Like Your Dog "For all self-help collections." American Library Association top^ Home Page Contact Us

How We Choose To Be Happy

Rick Foster & Greg Hicks
Leadership Development - Team Dynamics Training - Executive Coaching 4053 Harlan Street, loft 201, Emeryville, CA 94608 phone: (510) 540-1241 fax: (240) 332-8483 email: info@fosterhicks.com

How We Choose To Be Happy - Updated

When Rick Foster and Greg Hicks set out to discover the "secrets" of happiness, their journey took them from cafes in San Francisco to corporate board rooms in New York to living rooms in rural Alabama. Their in-depth interviews involved people from virtually every walk of life: a corporate manager in Seattle balancing the demands of her career and her young family, a retired doctor and Holocaust survivor living by the canals of Amsterdam, a cafeteria worker struggling to make ends meet, a middle-aged woman battling breast cancer. What this research revealed, and what is so succinctly and compellingly presented in this book, are the traits shared by those people who, by definition and self-assessment, are extremely happy.

What distinguishes these people are the nine choices they make throughout their lives — choices that determine their behavior in a wide range of circumstances. And what How We Choose to Be Happy shows is how anyone can incorporate these choices into their own lives to create personal happiness.

For an extraordinary read, new insight into the nature of deep, enduring happiness, and an unforgettable introduction to extremely happy people throughout the country, read this book.

Early Reviews

"Happiness is reading this gem of a book!"

Lynn Redgrave, actress

"My plan was to read the book long enough to decide if I would write a testimonial. In a short time I found myself in the middle of a remarkable torrent of brilliant ideas, all delivered in a warm and sturdy format. I realized that at some unnoticed moment I had changed and I was now reading because I was convinced the book would be of great personal value to me — it could help me find more happiness. It is a delightful and boundlessly valuable book, especially for those readers willing to explore the possibility that happiness is something we can all chose."

Will Schutz, Ph.D.
Author of Joy, Joy: 20 Years Later
and The Human Element

"This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to be happy — and who doesn't. Rick Foster and Greg Hicks clearly show us that happiness does not happen by chance, but by choice."

Matt Weinstein
Author of Managing to Have Fun
and Work Like Your Dog

"For all self-help collections."

American Library Association

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