I have read tons of self help books and maybe even more Christian books promising change. Don't get me started on sermons that promise to 'change your life', I tried them all.
I went looking for Dr Sharps book after reading a review at the barefoot investor on 100 Ways to Happiness: A Guide for Busy People, by Dr Timothy Sharp. I din't find it but I did find the Happiness Handbook and I am glad I did.
Here is the link to the review article at barefootinvestor.com
http://www.barefootinvestor.com/are-you-self-help-tragic/
This book gives you simple practical steps to actually help you be happier, and build on it. It looks at goals, how to figure out your purpose (something many stuck in church attendence are still searching for). It is only 10 chapters long but packs inenough information to keep you busy for ages.
One nteresting thought from the book is how he deals with 'feeling lost', he sees it as having its roots in not having any goals and therefore no life direcion. Well duh! you might say and rightly so but I didn't know that in the 90's and took that feeling and went in search of meaning through the New Age and all its shenanigans and then into Christianity. I still love God but no longer am I attending a Church for weekly meetings.
He had a fairly simple system for working out your life purpose be they one or a few, but for some reason I was fearful of this and didn't do it.
He looks at our thinking and its role in happiness. This has helped me question my thoughts rather than just letting anything run around my head. This has been an area of interest for me for years. Probably sparked by one of the self help gurus I read in the 90's but to his credit, Dr Timothy Sharp gives you tools to actually make some improvement in this area.
I really can't speak highly enough of this book. I read a library copy but it would be well worth owning a copy for ongoing reference, and who knows maybe even to tackle the 'purpose' issue that got so overdone in church that it turned me off.
I'd still like to read 100 ways to happiness, a guide for busy people by Dr Timothy Sharp and may just have to spend the $$ to get myself a copy. I am confident it wil be worth it!
This book gives you simple practical steps to actually help you be happier, and build on it. It looks at goals, how to figure out your purpose (something many stuck in church attendence are still searching for). It is only 10 chapters long but packs inenough information to keep you busy for ages.
One nteresting thought from the book is how he deals with 'feeling lost', he sees it as having its roots in not having any goals and therefore no life direcion. Well duh! you might say and rightly so but I didn't know that in the 90's and took that feeling and went in search of meaning through the New Age and all its shenanigans and then into Christianity. I still love God but no longer am I attending a Church for weekly meetings.
He had a fairly simple system for working out your life purpose be they one or a few, but for some reason I was fearful of this and didn't do it.
He looks at our thinking and its role in happiness. This has helped me question my thoughts rather than just letting anything run around my head. This has been an area of interest for me for years. Probably sparked by one of the self help gurus I read in the 90's but to his credit, Dr Timothy Sharp gives you tools to actually make some improvement in this area.
I really can't speak highly enough of this book. I read a library copy but it would be well worth owning a copy for ongoing reference, and who knows maybe even to tackle the 'purpose' issue that got so overdone in church that it turned me off.
I'd still like to read 100 ways to happiness, a guide for busy people by Dr Timothy Sharp and may just have to spend the $$ to get myself a copy. I am confident it wil be worth it!
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