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Choosing Happiness
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Australia's foremost self-help author gathers her wisdom into a comprehensive volume for today's time-poor readers - a modern-day bible of personal and social development.
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The message of this book is very simple. Right now you can be happier.
- You can change the way you think about yourself and other people.
- You can increase self-confidence and self-trust.
- You can build better relationships - including those at work.
- You can manage your life and time.
- You can learn to use your strengths.
- You can be much kinder - to yourself and others.
- You can live your life like it really matters.
This book shows you how.
Stephanie Dowrick makes the hard questions simple; she makes the impossible real and possible. Her wisdom is contagious. If anyone can cause a happiness revolution, she can. - Paul Wilson, author of the 'Calm' books
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781741750409
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2006
Country: Australia
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 610g
Pages: 512
About the Author
Stephanie Dowrick is the author of a number of life-changing bestsellers, including Intimacy and Solitude, Forgiveness and Other Acts of Love, and The Universal Heart. She has been a columnist for Good Weekend magazine since 2001 and is a regular guest on ABC Radio. She gives public talks and conducts retreats and workshops on a variety of spiritual, psychological and ethical issues while continuing to write. Born in New Zealand, she lived in London for many years where in 1987 she founded The Women's Press publishing house. She has lived in Sydney since 1983 and is the mother of two teenagers.
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