The How to Be Happy Box Set
How Happy Is Your Marriage?
How Happy Is Your Love Life?
How Happy Is Your Home?
How Happy Is Your Health?
Sophie Keller
Table of Contents
The How to Be Happy Box Set
ISBN: 978-1-4592-5551-7
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How Happy Is Your Marriage?
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How Happy Is Your Love Life?
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How Happy Is Your Home?
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How Happy Is Your Health?
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Keller, Sophie.
How happy is your marriage?: 50 great tips to make your relationship last forever / Sophie Keller.
p. cm.
1. Marriage. 2. Married peoplePsychology. 3. Man-woman relationships. 4. Marital quality. I. Title.
HQ734.K367 2011
306.872--dc22
2011010356
How Happy Is is a trademark of Sophie Keller.
Keller, Sophie.
How happy is your love life?: 50 great tips to help you attract and keep your perfect partner / Sophie Keller.
p. cm.
1. Man-woman relationships. 2. Interpersonal relations. 3. Love. I. Title.
HQ801.K443 2011
306.7--dc22
2011010358
How Happy Is is a trademark of Sophie Keller.
Keller, Sophie.
How happy is your home?: 50 great tips to bring more health, wealth, and joy into your home / Sophie Keller.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Home economicsPhilosophy. 2. Well-being. 3. Feng shui in interior decoration. I. Title.
TX13.K45 2011
640--dc22
2011010359
How Happy Is is a trademark of Sophie Keller.
Keller, Sophie.
How happy is your health?: 50 great tips to help you live a long, happy and healthy life / Sophie Keller.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Health. 2. Well-being. 3. Happiness. I. Title.
RA776.K2817 2011
613dc22
2011010357
How Happy Is is a trademark of Sophie Keller.
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Take charge of your happiness, one tip at a time, and make this year your happiest yet.
Happiness expert and life coach Sophie Keller will show you how to change your health, love life, marriage and home with easily tailored tips you can use to cater to your individual needs.
Youll discover:
- How putting a mirror on your fridge can help you lose weight
- How to attract a dateanywhere, anytime
- Why disagreeing can actually be good for your relationship
- Simple feng shui principles to make your home a healthier, happier place to live
how happy is your marriage?
To Oli, the love of my life, without whom I could never have written this book.
INTRODUCTION
Imagine you are fourteen years old, in school and starting a new class called Marriage. In this class you learn fifty tips, and once youve learned them, for the remainder of time that you are in school, all you do in that weekly class is role-play the tips with your fellow students. Thats itthere is no more new material to learn, because those fifty tips are all you need to know in order to make your relationship work. You spend the rest of your time in Marriage class studying the same tips and integrating them into your life to prepare you to make your future marriage work.
This book contains fifty definitive tips to help make your marriage last forever. I believe if we all learned each of these tips and put them to practice, there would be far more happy marriages.
As you read, you may notice that youve already mastered some of these tips, and you can check those off, but there will be others that you may not have thought of and that are completely new to you. If you invest in your relationship and master all fifty tips, the reward for a marriage that works will be higher than you ever thought possible and has the potential to bring you more joy than anything else in your life.
With a good marriage you need to always think, how will my actions now affect my relationship in an hour, in a day, in a month, in a year, in a lifetime? My general rule of thumb is that if what you do or say to your partner will affect your relationship in a positive way, then do it. If not, or if youre not sure, then think again about whether it is worth the temporary satisfaction.
To make your marriage work, you will need good listening skills, because half of what makes a happy marriage is being able to listen and respond to your partner. You will also want to be able to give to each other at every available opportunity, to come to agreements effortlessly and let each other flourish and be the best you each can be.
My husband, Oli, often tells a story about something that happened many years ago, when he was at friends parents Liz and Hughs thirtieth wedding anniversary. Oli was sitting next to Liz and watching Hughs best friend, Steve, who was in his late fifties, dancing, kissing and flirting with a young blond bombshell that he brought with him to the party. Just six months earlier, Oli had seen Steve with another beauty, doing pretty much the same thing at another party.
Oli, who was in his early twenties at the time, said to Liz, Wow, Steve is the coolest guy and such a stud. Whenever I see him, hes always with another really sexy, gorgeous woman.
Liz looked incredulously at Oli and said, Oli, its really easy to pick up another pretty girl, spend a few nights or weeks with her and keep her happy and satisfied for a short period of time. You want to know who really is the coolest guy in the room? Liz pointed at her husband. Its Hugh. Hugh has kept me happy sexually and emotionally for thirty years. A man who can keep a woman happy for that long is a real stud.