Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide

10 best books like Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide (Caroline Adams Miller): Positivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity, and Thrive, The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life, Counter Clockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, A Primer in Positive Psychology, Life Makeovers: 52 Practical & Inspiring Ways to Improve Your Life One Week at a Time, Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith, Positive Psychology In A Nutshell, The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles, Bounce Back!: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity

Positivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity, and Thrive

Author	Barbara L. Fredrickson
ISBN	0307393739

World renowned researcher Dr. Barbara Fredrickson gives you the lab-tested tools necessary to create a healthier, more
vibrant, and flourishing life through a process she calls "the upward spiral." You’ll discover:

•What positivity is, and why it needs to be heartfelt to be effective
•...

The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life

Author	Martha N. Beck
ISBN	0609609904

Discover a menu of ten behaviors you can add to your way of living and thinking to enhance every day's journey through the unpredictable terrain of your existence.

Add these behaviors gradually and watch your life become steadily more vivid and satisfying. Or you can go on a "crash Joy Diet"...

Counter Clockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility

Author	Ellen J. Langer
ISBN	0345502043

If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than thirty years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now, in Counterclockwise, she presents the answer: Opening our minds to what's possible,...

Happiness: Lessons from a New Science

Author	Richard Layard
ISBN	0143037013

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence...

A Primer in Positive Psychology

Author	Christopher Peterson
ISBN	0195188330

Positive psychology is the scientific study of what goes right in life, from birth to death and at all stops in between. It is a newly-christened approach within psychology that takes seriously the examination of that which makes life most worth living. Everyone's life has peaks and valleys, and positive...

Life Makeovers: 52 Practical & Inspiring Ways to Improve Your Life One Week at a Time

Author	Cheryl Richardson
ISBN	0767908848

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller--featuring a powerful program that shows you how to reclaim your life one week at a time.

Cheryl Richardson, the bestselling author of Take Time for Your Life, known to millions for her "Lifestyle Makeover" series on "The Oprah Winfrey Show,"...

Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith

Author	George E. Vaillant
ISBN	0767926579

This is a book by George Valliant, a Harvard scientist following in the footsteps of thinkers like E.O. Wilson who started the whole movement to "biologize" spirituality.

The key point is the difference between the brain's mammalian limbic system and its reptilian amygdilla. Apparently...

Positive Psychology In A Nutshell

Author	Ilona Boniwell
ISBN	0954838785

This book gives a brief explanation of how psychology used to be thought of as 'what's wrong with that person,' and when positive psychology came along it was immediately accepted and acceptable. Many quotes are given showing schools of thought and studies.

The famous Stanford marshmallow...

The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles

Author	Karen Reivich
ISBN	0767911911

Resilience is a crucial ingredient–perhaps the crucial ingredient–to a happy, healthy life. More than anything else, it's what determines how high we rise above what threatens to wear us down, from battling an illness, to bolstering a marriage, to carrying on after a national crisis. Everyone...

Bounce Back!: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity

Author

Karen Salmansohn

“The very act of reading it makes you feel happier.” - A.J. Jacobs

A bad breakup. A serious illness. The loss of a job. Life has a habit of throwing people curveballs. To which Karen Salmansohn says: “When life throws you curveballs, hit them out of the park.”

Bounce Back!...

Be Happy!: Release the Power of Happiness in YOU

Author	Robert Holden
ISBN	1401921809

“Happiness is a spiritual path. The more you learn about true happiness, the more you discover the truth of who you are, what is important, and what your life is for.”


 


Be Happy! is the follow-up to Robert Holden’s best-selling Happiness NOW! In this book, Robert gives...

The Power of Flow: Practical Ways to Transform Your Life with Meaningful Coincidence

Author

Charlene Belitz

Imagine feeling as though the world is working with you, not Àagainst you. Imagine a day in which you make every green light and slip effortlessly into a parking spot in the most crowded part of town. You make a To Do list, and the people on it call you first. You turn on the radio just in time to hear the exact...

Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier

Author	Robert A. Emmons
ISBN	0618620192

The first major study of gratitude that shows how “wanting what we have” can measurably change people’s lives.

 

Did you know that there is a crucial component of happiness that is often overlooked? Robert Emmons—editor-in-chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology—examines...

Curious?: Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life

Author

Todd Kashdan

“Curious? is one of those rare books that can make you rethink how you see the world.”
—Arianna Huffington

 

“This is the perfect book to read when you are having second thoughts about challenging yourself to explore that next step in life!”
—Stephen Post, Ph.D.,...

Handbook of Positive Psychology

Author	C.R. Snyder
ISBN	0195182790

Psychology has long been enamored of the dark side of human existence, rarely exploring a more positive view of the mind. What has psychology contributed, for example, to our understanding of the various human virtues? Regrettably, not much. The last decade, however, has witnessed a growing movement...

Even Happier: A Gratitude Journal for Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment

Author	Tal Ben-Shahar
ISBN	0071638032

Learn to be Happier. Week by Week.


In this week-by-week guided journal, Tal Ben-Shahar offers a full year's worth of exercises to inspire happiness every day. Using the groundbreaking principles of positive psychology that he taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University...

The Happiness Manifesto

Author

Nic Marks

Synopsis: Much of modern life is based on the assumption that happiness comes from economic prosperity. Many -- politicians, media and citizens alike -- seem to assume the goal of government is to keep the economy moving. Here, Nic Marks argues that the blind pursuit of economic growth has created an...

Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth

Author	Ed Diener
ISBN	1405146613

Utilizing sophisticated methodology and three decades of research by the world's leading expert on happiness, Happiness challenges the present thinking of the causes and consequences of happiness and redefines our modern notions of happiness.
shares the results of three decades of research...

Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness

Author

Susan L. Smalley

Mindfulness has attracted ever-growing interest and tens of thousands of practitioners, who have come to the discipline from both within and outside the Buddhist tradition. In Fully Present, leading mindfulness researchers and educators Dr. Sue Smalley and Diana Winston provide an all-in-one...

Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts

Author	Peter McWilliams
ISBN	0931580633

This really is a book of quotes with some advice sprinkled in between. The advice is sub-par at best. If you removed all references to quotes and actual quotes themselves, this book would be cut, if not to one fourth of its length, at least half its length.

Now, I love quotes. Don't get me wrong....

The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Respond to People Who Dump on You, and How to Stop Dumping on Others

Author	David J. Pollay
ISBN	1402776640

Twenty years ago, while riding in the back of a New York City taxicab, syndicated columnist and business consultant David J. Pollay had an awakening-and he converted the lesson he learned that day into a life philosophy: By letting other people's “garbage”-their negativity-simply “pass by,”...

Life's Missing Instruction Manual: The Guidebook You Should Have Been Given at Birth

Author	Joe Vitale
ISBN	0471768499

Bestselling author and marketing guru Joe Vitale offers insights and life lessons for achieving success

In the simple, straightforward tone of an instructional manual, this little book offers big wisdom and little-known secrets for living a better life. Packed with life lessons most people...

How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation

Author

Robert Kegan

Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even our decisions-and what we are actually able to bring about? Even when we are able to make important changes-in our own lives or the groups we lead at work-why are the changes are so frequently short-lived and we are soon back to business as usual?...