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The pursuit of happiness is the biggest goal of all, but finding happiness isn't easy and life often gets in the way. Happiness doesn’t just happen, people need a clearer vision of attainable happiness, defined in simple terms - people need a plan.
The Happiness Plan is therefore well timed. It offers an accessible set of simple observations about how any individual can be happier, here and now, by choice, self-awareness and practice. By asking provocative questions, McConnell involves the reader in a process of defining happiness according to his or her own values.
This book strongly advocates an approach to greater happiness here and now, without leaving the day job, switching the family to the coast or becoming impoverished. The Happiness Plan is written for hard working, time poor people, helping them to make some real changes with the right ideas
- Sales Rank: #2491288 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-04-08
- Released on: 2010-04-08
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“Carmelwill convince you to put happiness back on the agenda – right back in the centre of your life. As always, the timing of her message is spot on and her down-to-earth practical plan will get you making changes instantly.”
Fiona Harrold , author of Be Your Own Life Coach and The 7 Rules of Success
Just as the "culture" of an organisation determines whether it is a happy place to work, so the cast of mind of an individual can determine if they are happy or glum. Carmel McConnell is great at altering mind-sets."
Prue Leith OBE
“The perfect manual for those who have already set of in search of the holy grail of happiness and wondered why they got no further than the frozen foods section at Sainsbury's.”
Allison Ogden-Newton, Chief Executive, Social Enterprise London
“Filled with Camel McConnell's motivating energy and her affirming and realistic approach to life, this book can and will change lives."
Kim Price, Head of Extended Services , Millfields Community School and Children's Centre, Hackney
"Carmel McConnell is one of these people who has the amazing knack of helping you see that you are in charge of your life and therefore you have the possibility to make it better. 'The Happiness Plan' offers practical, compelling advice spoken from the heart.
Anna MacLean, Marketing Manager, Tennent's Lager (Inbev UK Ltd)
From the Back Cover
What Would Make You Happier?
Think of the things that make you happiest: The things that really matter...the things that really last. Can you imagine having more of them in your life? Thought so…
The pursuit of happiness is the biggest goal of all, but finding happiness isn’t easy, especially in times like these. Happiness doesn’t just happen: People need a clearer vision of attainable happiness, defined in simple terms--people need a plan.
The Happiness Plan will help you build that plan. It presents an accessible set of simple observations about how you can be happier, here and now, without quitting your job, moving your family, or making great sacrifices.
The Happiness Plan is written for hard-working people, helping them to make some real changes with the right ideas.
With Carmel McConnell’s “ABC” of a happier life, you can learn how to
• Understand what can really make us happy (and it might not be
what you think)
• Recognize the big sources of happiness in your life (and make
more room for them)
• Overcome obstacles to happiness (Have you chosen a stress-based approach to life?)
• Use some simple, powerful techniques to achieve some lasting
changes to your life
Do these things and happiness will happen: authentic, lasting, real. It’s about taking gentle, small steps, and it’s easier than you ever imagined. The Happiness Plan is based on the latest breakthrough research about happiness. It works. Try it. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
About the Author
CARMEL McCONNELL M.MBA, FRSA Founder, Magic Breakfast
Carmel McConnell is a social entrepreneur and author. Her background is unusual in combining social activism and senior corporate experience.
In 2001 she founded children’s charity Magic Breakfast, (www.magicbreakfast.com). Magic Breakfast delivers free, healthy breakfast food and nutrition education to primary schools in the UK in greatest need--feeding 1,000 children each morning. It won the Guardian Charity of the Year award in 2005.
To partly fund the Magic Breakfast, Carmel founded a social enterprise, Magic Outcomes (www.magicoutcomes.com). Magic Outcomes offers professional leadership training and team development, based in a primary school, with all profits going to Magic Breakfast. Magic Outcomes now runs programs to help low-income schools develop social enterprise skills and create more happiness for everyone in the school environment.
In 2005, Magic Outcomes won the Caroline Walker Trust Social Enterprise Award.
Carmel is a board member of the School Food Trust, board member of Social Enterprise London and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Overwhelming
By Freudian Slips
As a counselor I read a lot of books about positive psychology, not to mention a lot about depression. And, in general, the goal of most of these books is to have the reader develop and embrace a new life plan that will make them feel better, i.e. be happier. So when I read a book like this I read it for potential clients to use and I usually focus on how it makes me feel as I read it.
And I have to say that it simply made me feel overwhelmed.
The book is attractively laid out; there are nice illustrations, clever cartoons, and interesting breaks in the text for you to fill in your ideas and answers to various prompts.
I liked the opening fill-in-the-blank on page ix where the reader is instructed to answer, "I'm happiest when..." It helped me get some quick insight which I appreciated. And the author lays out the essential paradox of the book: to be happy, one should focus on living our lives in a way that makes us happy rather than on happiness itself. That's a great thought. Too bad she didn't put it into action, because from that point on the word "happy" or "happiness" becomes incessant. Every page. Virtually every paragraph. Draw up a happiness plan. The happiness plan playlist. Unlearn unhappiness. Understand happiness. Ten things to do if you want to be happier. Making room for happiness.
After awhile I felt like I had been hit by the happiness sledgehammer. Are you happy now? How 'bout now? No? Well then, do this. And this. And this.
I'm giving the book three stars because I think the writer has the best of intentions and truly wants to coach her readers to happiness. And her ideas are good-- just too intense for me. If you're looking to improve your mood or feel happy, I think better books to get would be Dr. Martin Seligman's Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life or Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, Dr. David Burns' Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated or Jon Kabat Zinn's Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness which offer a more meaningful approach to happiness without the relentless pressure.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
I wanted to like this book
By jj
This is a smallish book, about 250 pages. I liked the way it began and her basic premise---which is finding what makes you uniquely happy.
I. INTRO:
She starts off by asking when and where you are the happiest. She devotes a page to let you write in these things. I like that sort of thing. I like to think of what I have and to be thankful for it. She says the plan in helping you develop a happier life is to get you to ask better questions (I liked this idea), open yourself up to new ideas(I liked this, too), and try out new stuff (I'm into that).
II. CHAPTER ONE
So then she moves on to chapter one and the first step which is: Deciding to be happier. Again, another fill in page (remember, I like these). But filling it in made me unhappy. And I found this to be true throughout this book, because there are some basic things I think you need for happiness (like having arms and legs and the basics---I have my arms and legs but not all the basics). I don't subscribe to the idea that you just have to love what you have and that is good enough, so every time she asked me to rate my happiness in a basic area---it reminded me of that unhappiness.
My happy book started making me unhappy.
Now in this first chapter she tells you "You're gorgeous" and you read the page and when you are about to put it down (if you have some self esteem issues) she points out that maybe you are putting it down when you need to read it again. She says how you see yourself is linked to your happiness. I sooo agree with that. She scored a star for that point alone.
II. CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER 2 is on understanding happiness and I thought she did herself a great disservice here by quoting what other authors said happiness was about. Luckily, she did come back to her premise that it is what you uniquely think happiness is, not what someone else says. So why did she put all that stuff in there? She repeats an earlier chart to fill in (I have no idea why) and then she tells us what happiness and unhappiness feel like---joy is the first feeling and agitation can be the second. Ughhhhh! Ughhh! Ugghhhh! Bad, girl. I took a star off for this chapter.
I gave her back a half star because the book is filled with pages with quotes and I happen to like that sort of thing. "We must each cultivate our own garden." Voltaire
She stays with her theme that knowing who you are and what is most important to you is an essential first step.
III Chapter 3
OK, this is where we get to Step 3: Create a Personal Happiness Plan. I am still reading despite chapter 2, but she is on the ropes now. She says research says that the biggest determiner of happiness is your genes! What?! She says she has good genes. OK, but I don't think any of that belongs here. At all. She says your genes are a bigger determiner of your happiness than if you were severely disabled following an accident. Ugghhh! I'm taking back my half star.
More research in this chapter and another chart to fill out. But I can assure you, there is no plan in sight. She says to fill out another chart on what three things you could change so you could be happier. Maybe this book would be right for someone who had never thought of that, but I do that all the time. I know what I need to change to be happier. I am not making those changes. Her guidance is to see if you can make those changes. I'm not kidding.
Maybe I am being hard on her, maybe there are people who never think about this sort of thing, but if you do, this is not the book for you to move past that.
And she says in great big black letters that the difference between being happy and unhappy is largely internal. I soooo disagree with that. Take someone out of a violent ghetto with no safety and little food and set him up at the Hilton and ask him what he thinks about thinking yourself happy. I've read that sort of gunk years ago and it is just that. I would give this book a minus star right now if I could.
People want to tell you happiness isn't about money and I bought into that most of my life---until I needed a lot of money to keep someone I loved alive. That changed me forever. Money can buy happiness and it can solve problems.
But she does keep coming back to getting your beliefs, your thoughts, and your day-to-day life in sync with who you really are. I liked some of her exercises here: If you were in a bookstore, where would you go and why? If you could choose an award and you were on stage receiving it, what would it be? If you arrive in heaven and you look at the summary of the most important part of your life, what does it say? Yes, I like this sort of reflection. She gets two stars here.
Her ten ways to get out of a bad mood begins with "Eat something good for you." Taking the stars back. This is the way eating disorders begin. Emotional eating is bad, bad, bad. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
Step 4: Unlearn unhappiness
Step 5: Our plan. Make others happy.
Step 6: Some Happiness Plan examples
Step 7: Put your plan into action
This book might be right for someone, but it deserves a close review at the bookstore before you order from Amazon.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Scattershot and exhausting
By Thomas E. Davis
Everyone is made happy by different things. This book states up front that it is designed to help the reader figure out what those things are and to recognize that being happier is not a formulaic panacea but an imperfect process, a fleeting byproduct of being "the real you", making good choices, taking action, and feeling love. It breaks down the pursuit of happiness into seven steps:
1) Deciding to be happier
2) Understanding what happiness is and isn't
3) Creating a happiness plan
4) Unlearning unhappiness
5) Making others happy
6) Studying examples of happiness plans
7) Putting your happiness plan into action
I don't doubt the author's good intentions. Unfortunately, the book is simply not well-organized. It is filled with lists and diagrams and examples and questionnaires that purport to assist you in deciding what to do about the challenges and situations that may be making you unhappy and could be handled in such a way as to make you happier. There are random quotes and quizzes and questions, and a handful of cartoons and case studies and statistics, and a whole lot of filling in the blanks with your own feelings, but it just doesn't cohere.
Now some of the checklists and stories and drawings and surveys and exercises and seemingly endless suggestions may help you, but they seem to me like a grab-bag of techniques without an overarching theme. Try this, and this, and this -- or you can try this, or this, or this. Feel happier yet? Not me. I'm busy enough already without all the business this book encourages me to undertake. If you're depressed, see a doctor. If you want to be happier, there are much better books. Not recommended.
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