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Title: How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People, Their Secets, Their Stories by Rick Foster, Greg Hicks ISBN: 0-399-52575-0 Publisher: Perigee Books Pub. Date: 07 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (15 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Happy People are Wise People
Comment: I am a happy person. I won't go so far as saying I am wise, but I did not become happier by accident. It was a conscious choice.

I read "How We Choose to Be Happy" to see if the authors had come to the same conclusions I had. They did. I have been carrying a small card around with me since 1996. It says things like "experience & express gratitude," "make happiness a priority," and "be present." It's amazing how many of the choices listed in this book are on my old beat up card. Maybe it's not a coincidence.

In our culture there is this odd belief that you must be an idiot if you're happy. I have no idea how this myth got started but I have found just the opposite to be true. It takes a logical mind to see where choice is involved in our emotions. My life circumstances are not totally how I would like them to be. I decided to not wait for ideal conditions before I experienced joy. I figured out that I could experience happiness WHILE creating the life I wanted. If I waited for everything to be perfectly how I wanted it to be, I concluded I might be waiting a very, very long time.

Get the book. Make it personal by seeing how the choices might apply in your life. Why wait?

Rating: 5
Summary: Practical Resource: Not A Self-Help "Plan"
Comment: The author's outline of the "9 choices of extremely happy people" seems fairly complete: intention (to be happy), accountability (for one's own happiness), identification (of what makes one happy), centralization (making working towards happiness central in daily life), recasting (interpretation of tragic or unhappy experiences for redeeming value), options, appreciation, giving, and truth. I like that their "outline" doesn't require one to necessarily rely on a religious or supernatural belief that not everyone will necessarily share, nor do they have a one-size-fits-all approach that equates success with happiness. Although I don't really want some psychologist, self-help author, or religious leader to prescribe a detailed magic formuala for happiness, other people may miss having a detailed course of "what do we do now?" Another weakness (unavoidable) is that the author's acknowledge that perhaps only 50% of happiness is voluntary, the other half may be genetically or biologically determined, that is hardwired into us. Still, we have to start somewhere. I think that the 9 choices are useful to evaluating the way we leading our lives and making some improvement.

Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely amazing!
Comment: This book inspired, capitivated, and challenged me to grow. The wheel of happiness that Foster and Hicks illustrate is a method that works and has been integrated into my life. This book really can be life-changing if you have the patience and courage to take life by the hand and run with what it offers you. I have always been the type of person that plans everything out to the last detail, but recently I have just been going with the flow, but really having a say in what I want to do with every second of my life. I look at my intentions in doing things and hold my self accountable for my decisions. This book is well-written and should be required reading for anyone who wants to live life to the absolute fullest!

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