Choose the life you want: 101 ways to create your own road to happiness - Tapa dura

"With his customary insight, Tal Ben-Shahar lays out the elements of a happier life in short, thought-provoking chapters that will inspire readers both to think more deeply about their lives--and to take action to turn those ideas into reality." --Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project "Tal Ben-Shahar has done it again! This book will not only change the way you think about your life, but how you choose to live it." --Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason "Dr. Ben-Shahar provides eloquent and clear strategies for living in the potency of daily awareness and choice. He takes the most common tests and traps we face as human beings and enables us to look clearly at options to make us more alive, more mindful and happy. He challenges us to find our freedom to make the choice for the life we want." --David Surrenda, PhD, CEO, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and author of Retooling on the Run "By offering 101 powerful yet actionable ways to live a more meaning-full life, Tal has done most of the heavy lifting for us. In the end, he leaves us with perhaps the simplest choice of all: Read this book!" --Scott A. Snook, MBA, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

As Ben-Shahar himself writes, the dramas of life's 'big decisions' (which, almost by definition, are few and far between) should not hide the fact that in life we face choices all the time. Every moment of our waking lives we face choices whose cumulative effect on us is just as great, if not greater, than the effect of the big decisions. I can choose whether to sit up straight or stooped; whether to say a warm word to my partner or give her a sour look; whether to appreciate my health, my friend, and my lunch, or to take these for granted; whether to choose to choose or to remain oblivious to the choices that are there for the making. Individually, these choices may not seem important, but together they are the very bricks that make up the road we create for ourselves.