Happiness By Numbers

Imagine if there was a way to measure your impact on the environment and manage how it affects your happiness. What if you could be sure that everything that matters in your life was on track to maximise your feelings of fulfilment and contentment? In Happiness By Numbers, chartered environmentalist Richard Lupo draws on decades of expert research to provide you with a very neat, science-based framework that shows how your decisions and actions affect your environment, while measuring your progress towards achieving long-term wellbeing. From your own personal happiness to the wellbeing of your family and friends, as well as your impact on the planet as a whole, you’ll discover how, with a clear vision, an effective strategy, a dash of proven science and some very clever number crunching, you can make every part of your life happier and more rewarding. Take an eye-opening journey into happiness and the environment that will change how you think and feel about what they mean and uncover: > A blueprint for boosting your own long-term wellbeing > Fascinating insights into the science behind what makes us happy > Practical tips for creating safe and secure environments for all > A roadmap towards better decisions on sustainability and living a net zero life > How happiness really looks when you put in into numbers If it’s true that you can only manage what you can measure, by exploring and leveraging what science and data reveals about what makes us happy, we can all build a better world that’s happier not only for ourselves but those around us too.

What is it about the number seven that has such a hold on us? Why are there seven deadly sins? Seven days of the week? Seven wonders of the world, seven colors of the spectrum, seven ages of man, and seven sister colleges? Why can we hold seven numbers or words in our working memory--but no more? Author Jackie Leo explores everything about this mystical, magical, useful, and fun number in her new book. Seven Reasons You Need This Book 1. SEVEN is a tool to improve the quality of your life. It is a way to define time, synthesize ideas, and keep your mind performing at top speed in an era of distractions. 2. SEVEN is culturally significant. It pops up everywhere, structuring our world in ways so fundamental, we notice them only when we pause to look. Across the ages and across cultures, the number has acquired a huge scientific, psychological, and religious significance. 3. SEVEN is intriguing. Why, out of hundreds of recipes in a cookbook, do people return to the same seven, over and over? Why, when asked to choose a number between one and ten, does such a large majority of people choose seven? Why does it take seven rounds of shuffling to obtain a fully mixed deck of cards? 4. SEVEN is influential. You'll learn how the number seven shapes our thinking, our choices, and even our relationships. 5. SEVEN is practical. Throughout this book are Top Seven lists covering the best ways to get someone's attention, to build your personal brand, and to put yourself in the path of prosperity and good luck. 6. SEVEN is fun. You'll encounter surprising facts, intriguing puzzles, and hilarious anecdotes. 7. SEVEN is wise. You'll hear stories about the meaning of seven from Mehmet Oz, Sally Quinn, Liz Smith, Christina Ricci, and many others. Artfully designed and full of enough insights to keep you engaged in conversation at the water cooler for years, SEVEN will provoke, enlighten, and amuse.

Color in 125 happy scenes and infuse your day with joy—without any eye strain. Grab your colored pencils and dive into these joyful images of animals, flowers, landscapes, and other upbeat themes. The large print is easy on the eyes, keeping you pleasantly occupied for hours, and you can use the included color key as a guide, or get creative with your own palettes.

This uplifting color-by-number book explores the theme of happiness in more than 60 beautiful artworks. From cake shop windows to calming beach scenes, this heart-warming collection of images is perfect for the calming activity of coloring. The magic of coloring by numbers is that you don't have to worry about drawing from scratch or choosing colors - simply match up the numbered section to the corresponding color on the color-key and focus on completing the design. In this collection, the key has been placed on the back-flap and so can be flipped out beside your page for easy reference. Finished examples are also provided in full-color on the inside cover for guidance. Designs include: - Tranquil sunsets - Cuddly animals - Scenes of nature - Mandala patterns Readers will find hours of contentment in coloring these positive images. ABOUT THE SERIES: The bestselling Sirius Color by Numbers Collection features peaceful and enchanting designs from an array of artists, printed on thick, high-quality paper and including a handy flip-out color key.

A new perspective on life satisfaction and well-being over the life course What makes people happy? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes that are based on what really matters to people. Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being, including income, education, employment, family conflict, health, childcare, and crime. The Origins of Happiness offers a groundbreaking new vision for how we might become more healthy, happy, and whole.

In this important, entertaining book, one of the world's most celebrated psychologists, Martin Seligman, asserts that happiness can be learned and cultivated, and that everyone has the power to inject real joy into their lives. In Authentic Happiness, he describes the 24 strengths and virtues unique to the human psyche. Each of us, it seems, has at least five of these attributes, and can build on them to identify and develop to our maximum potential. By incorporating these strengths - which include kindness, originality, humour, optimism, curiosity, enthusiasm and generosity -- into our everyday lives, he tells us, we can reach new levels of optimism, happiness and productivity. Authentic Happiness provides a variety of tests and unique assessment tools to enable readers to discover and deploy those strengths at work, in love and in raising children. By accessing the very best in ourselves, we can improve the world around us and achieve new and lasting levels of authentic contentment and joy.

We all have numbers with which we feel an affinity, from PIN numbers to personalized number plates. But we can do much more with numbers, maximizing our luck potential and discovering life choices that can bring us success--as Lillian Too reveals in this upbeat, inspiring, how-to-guide. Arranged into Tips, the first section shows how to find your Birth number, which influences your life destiny. Then find your Name number, for more insight into the ups and downs on your life path. Combine the two, and you have your Life number. In parts Two and Three, Lillian shows you how to use your Life number to enhance your life and change your luck for the better. Align areas of your home with the ancient number formula of Flying Star feng shui, discover your Kua number to energize your luck, find out how your Life number can help you choose an auspicious date for an important event, and much more. The lucky numbers for this book are 1, 6, and 8--in Chinese numberology, this is the best number combination for success. *Find your birth number and explore your personality and life path. *Includes the Western tradition of the Golden Mean along with Eastern number systems *Part of a bestselling series--over 150,000 copies of the *168" series sold.

From a New York Times best-selling author and health psychologist, "What's my number?" is a game-changing book for all self-helpers! It gives us a simple, profoundly effective way to instantly update how we process daily life to meet the high-stress demands of our times. Stress overload has caused us to enter the age of the emotional brain when we need emotional tools to unlock the brain's power for health, happiness, and purpose. Based on emotional brain training (EBT), by asking ourselves one simple question - What's my number? - we can use the natural power of our own emotions to: crush cravings and regain control, clear away ineffective beliefs, deal with workplace stress, relieve anxiety, depression, and hostility, resolve conflicts in relationships, boost our sense of purpose, and create joy in our lives!

This fully revised and updated edition of Happiness provides an accessible introduction to the concept of happiness and how it can be applied to public policy in order to help citizens achieve the good life. Countries around the globe want to ensure the best for their citizens. They want them to be happy, have a good life and improve their well-being. It follows that, whilst happiness is based upon individuals’ subjective perception of their own situation, it is important to understand the concept of happiness in order to form policies that might help individuals to achieve what they believe will make them happier. Applying approaches from disciplines across the social sciences, this book explores varying notions of happiness and how these can be applied to create a theoretical understanding of happiness as a concept. The book then demonstrates how the concept of happiness can be used to analyse social policy in welfare states in areas including work, health and migration, as well as to evaluate everyday life and social relationships. This book will be essential reading for students and instructors in a range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in the concept of happiness and/or welfare states.

A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it. Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had expected. Why? As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Just as memory plays tricks on us when we try to look backward in time, so does imagination play tricks when we try to look forward. Using cutting-edge research, much of it original, Gilbert shakes, cajoles, persuades, tricks and jokes us into accepting the fact that happiness is not really what or where we thought it was. Among the unexpected questions he poses: Why are conjoined twins no less happy than the general population? When you go out to eat, is it better to order your favourite dish every time, or to try something new? If Ingrid Bergman hadn’t gotten on the plane at the end of Casablanca, would she and Bogey have been better off? Smart, witty, accessible and laugh-out-loud funny, Stumbling on Happiness brilliantly describes all that science has to tell us about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely we are to enjoy it when we get there.