This e-book or e-textbook was written for all individuals/professionals/learners around the world seeking to practice more happiness, joy, and overall well-being in their lives. In this e-book, you will learn specific strategies and practices to enhance your personal happiness, joy, and overall well-being. You will also find strategies and practices you can apply in your work life as well as other aspects of your life. This e-book was designed to equip the readers/learners with the knowledge and ability to enhance their mental, psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. The strategies and practices included are best learned when practiced consistently. This e-book is also designed to be included in high school and college/university curricula. In addition, it is suitable for psychologists, psychiatrists, advisors, counselors, consultants, coaches, educators, and medical and other experts to recommend to or use with their clients, patients, or learner groups. Retired learners can also find enjoyment in reviewing this e-book and putting their knowledge into practice.
20+ chapters in the e-book include fun, wholesome, and self-developmental content including poll questions, journaling/exercises, educational pictures/drawings, popular quotes, and 2 quiz questions in each chapter. Each chapter operates independently from the others. The e-book is designed to elevate how one feels even as one reads the chapters.
Sungu Armagan, Ph.D., is a Teaching Professor in the College of Business at Florida International University (FIU). She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration with a focus on Organizational Behavior and Social Psychology at the University of Utah. She has been a faculty member at FIU since 2006. She created the first business course on “happiness at work” in the country and the world and started teaching it in 2013 at FIU. She is an award-winning instructor of happiness at work, negotiations, international negotiations, organizational behavior, and organization and management at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels. She loves her students and is heavily invested in sharing her knowledge with them while learning from them. She is particularly interested in studying and sharing with others how to enhance one’s personal and workplace joy while becoming productive, managing time well, doing one’s work with a spirit of excellence, and becoming a servant leader and a high performer. She provides professional workshops and seminars for companies on topics including personal happiness, workplace happiness, and executive negotiations.
Chapter 1: I am child-like, have a pure heart, and am humble
Chapter 2: I follow the still small voice within
Chapter 3: I am loving
Chapter 4: I am skilled, intelligent, and have a great capacity to learn
Chapter 5: I follow my calling for work
Chapter 6: I write down the vision, have goals, follow a sound plan, and am hardworking and diligent
Chapter 7: I take good care of my body
Chapter 8: I am thankful, and not just in good times
Chapter 9: I transform my mind
Chapter 10: I am generous financially and nonfinancially, and exercise joy and humility in my giving
Chapter 11: I choose to be joyful even when I do not want to, or it feels tough to
Chapter 12: I am peaceful regardless of what is happening around me
Chapter 13: I am patient even when it feels challenging to be so
Chapter 14: I am kind even when others are not
Chapter 15: I am compassionate and continue to grow in compassion
Chapter 16: I practice being good!
Chapter 17: I am respectful, faithful, loyal, and trustworthy
Chapter 18: I am gentle even when it feels tough to be
Chapter 19: I have self-control. Oh, help!
Chapter 20: I manage my finances successfully (Forthcoming in Upcoming Edition)
Chapter 21: I navigate through suffering gracefully, even when it feels tough to do so
Chapter 22: Meditating on good things and keeping a laser focus on what I am called to be, do, or have in my life are my weapons to triumph over life’s challenges (Forthcoming in Upcoming Edition)
Chapter 23: I live an extraordinary life