IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD --- THINKING YOUR WAY TO HAPPINESS
by Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine. Collins, 2005
    QUOTES OF WISDOM
        Moral = "Happiness is a how, not a what;
        a talent, not an object." by Hermann Hesse         (pix)

        "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness." by Eric Hoffer (p1)

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pxiii-xiv)


    PROLOGUE (pxv)

      1) It's all in your head (p1-22)

      2) You're just where your're supposed to be (p23-47)

      3) It gets better (p48-68)

      4) Own your success (p69-89)

      5) You don't have to go it alone (p90-111)

      6) There's no time like now, so take the action (p112-131)

      7) Your best is enough (p132-155)

      8) The past is past (p156-177)

      9) Tomorrow is too late (p178-200)

      10) Out of your mind (p201-205)

    EPILOGUE (p207-)

      "There is that in me --- I do not know what it is --- but I know it is in me...
      I do not know it --- it is without name --- it is a word unsaid,
      It is not in my dictionary, utterance, symbol...
      Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
      It is not chaos or death --- it is form, union, plan ---
      it is eternal life --- it is Happiness!"

      Poem by Walt Whitman

    APPENDIX --- HOW TO BE HAPPY (p209-214)

      EXERCISE #1--- Your Own Philosophy of Happiness: (p209)

        [1] Take out your journal and turn to a blank page

        [2] List all the things and activities that make you happy

        [3] Once you find yourself struggling to come up with more items, put your journal down for a minute

        [4] Close your eyes, take one deep breath, and go back and read your list

      EXERCISE #13 --- Living in the future: (p213-214)

        [1] Take out your journal and turn to a fresh page

        [2] On top of the page write the heading "Things for which I am grateful."

        [3] Start by writing, "I am alive," and move on from there, line by line, filling as many pages as you need.

        [4] Start by concentrating on people you love.

        [5] Next, move on to places you love or loved in the past.

        [6] Finally, turn to things you value most.

        [7] On days when you are feeling bad, turn back to the list you have comiled and reread what you wrote.

        [8] Then, after a few minutes of reflection, add some new entries to your list.

    POSTSCRIPT --- An appreciation of Mark Levine for 20 years of collaboration. (p215-216)
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