Bruce Alexander

“Lasting Happiness In Uncertain Times” (2021)

Bruce Alexander MA expertly combines the latest thinking in psychology and neuroscience in a revealing answer to two questions vital for anyone seeking more joy in their life: Is there a difference in naturally happy people? Can we be like them once we know? The answer to these questions is here presented as 20 scientifically-based habits of thought and emotionally nourishing life skills. In combination, they equip you to build a level of happiness that doesn’t rely on favorable life circumstances or a change of luck. Naturally happy people have most of these qualities already. Now you can acquire them on your own initiative and you’ll never have a better opportunity than now, when life seems so uncertain. Traditional solutions for restoring happiness such as ‘positive thinking’ or ‘just believing in yourself’ or “expecting a miracle” were never written for the challenges and uncertainties of the present era. Lasting Happiness in Uncertain Times provides a new, refreshing and entirely actionable approach to your journey to a personality that is resilient, confident and above all reliably happy. For some readers, the quest for Lasting Happiness may be intensely personal. Disappointment or sorrow may have entered your life. But you, if anyone, stand in need of this new pathway to refocus your mind on the future and move ahead of grief and loss. Some of the life skills you will gain are mental tools: preventing unhappy memories jumping into your mind, recapturing the joyful imagination of your childhood and learning to spend more thinking time ‘in the future’. Others are emotionally nourishing actions: adopting characteristics you admire so you respect yourself more, learning to forgive, finding new meaning in everyday activities and growing your ‘goodwill bank account’ to build a supportive social circle. Importantly, these valuable life skills accelerate each other. Mastering one equips you to acquire the next, until you build an emotional repertoire bigger than life’s disappointments and more appreciative of its opportunities for joy. Make no mistake, it is your personality you’re changing. You’ll still be you by the end of this book. But you will be a much happier version of yourself!