Lenny Ravich - Everlasting Optimism: 9 Principles for Success, Happiness and Powerful Relationships

Everlasting
Optimism

9 Principles for Success, Happiness and Powerful Relationships

Lenny Ravich

Bestselling Books by

Lenny Ravich

Everlasting Optimism is an adaptation from Lenny's previous best-selling book A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Enlightenment, which won the State of Israel Platinum Award for selling over 50,000 copies. Stay tuned for the next instalment, Were All Screwed So Why Not Do It Dancing!

Free Resources

There are hundreds of delightful songs as well as several valuable eBooks, videos and articles available on www.DeliveringDelight.com, where you can also contact Lenny. We would love to hear from you!

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Rave reviews from readers of
Everlasting Optimism

Finally a book about optimism that is hilariously funny. Brilliant and easy to apply practical recipes for happier life, charmingly written by an educator and humorist sage.

Jack Canfield - Originator of

Chicken Soup for The Soul series

Funny, accessible, and insightful,this book can help you laugh all the way to everlasting happiness.

Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD
Author of New York Times best-selling book, Happier

A life changer. Funny and authentic.

Chip Conley - Author of PEAK, Emotion Equations, and Founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality

Everlasting Optimism fulfills its title promise. The book has an everlasting effect on your attitude towards life and ability to shift at any given moment from pessimism to optimism. Its my all-time mood booster, regularly on my table for inspiration.

Eran Katz - Entertaining speaker and
author of the best-selling book Five Gifts for the Mind

Lenny is not a cockeyed optimist; he is happily clear-headed. He has lived long enough to realize that optimism is reality. He doesnt promise perpetual bliss-on-earth, but he knows that resilience requires that we have believable uplifting encouragement in todays world, and he delivers! You will want to deliver Everlasting Optimism to everyone you love, and even to some who may be hard to love.

Steve Wilson - Author of The Art of Mixing Work and Play and creator of The World Laughter Tour

With the revision of Everlasting Optimism you will have the opportunity of sitting with Lenny for a few hours as he shares his personal, spiritual and quantum entangled life lessons with us; all in a bubble of joyous laughter, sprinkled with graceful perspective. Maybe read it a couple of times. Bask in the warmth, the light, the love, the wisdom, and the silliness of a force of nature.

Robert Lowe - Author of Improvisation,
Inc. Revised 2017: An Applied Improvisation Handbook

Ravich explains how creating live-and-laugh solutions to personal problems in ones life will lead to a healing happiness and enlightenment.

Mackie JV Blanton - Retired Associate Professor in Linguistics and University Associate Dean U.N.O.

Contents

by Avi Liran

A Life-changing Book

Is it possible for someone to always be optimistic, despite lifes challenges, adversities, and mood swings?

THE EVER-HAPPY ONES

Do you know which types of people are always happy? Heres the list: Dead, delusional, drunk, forgetful, lunatics, liars, or Lenny. But if you ask Lennys wife, she will say otherwise.

The first edition of Lennys book landed in my hands in 2006. This was during one of the lowest points in my life. I laughed from the first page to the last. Everything resonated.

I was excited, so I called the author. I thought I was being funny when I said, I hate you; but before I could complete my sentence, Lenny hung up on me.

THE MOST UNHAPPY PEOPLE AND LENNY

I called again and said, I hate you because you wrote 80% of what I should have written, but you did it before I could. We both had a good laugh. A few months later, an article was published in Singapores Straits Times with the following headline:

Singaporeans the least happy people in Asia.

I called Lenny and asked if he would like to come to Singapore to help spur them on to greater happiness. He agreed.

Our first client was Marriott, and the rest is history. Lenny became my partner, one of my best friends, my mentor, teacher, source of inspiration, and wisdom. Lenny sort of adopted me as his son. With his child-like cheerfulness, optimism and experience, he helped me navigate the storms of life, all while establishing with me a start-up that would delight the world.

COMBINING HEADS, HEARTS AND HANDS

Lenny believes that A message from the heart reaches the heart, but a message from the brain reaches the butt.

Therefore, all of our work (and this book) is designed to make you feel entertained as you learn.

One of Lennys favourite quotes is by Maya Angelou. She said, I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Lenny adds to this, Emotions are never wrong; you need to listen to them, not ignore them.

While Lenny acknowledges that as humans we sometimes get overwhelmed with negative feelings, he also knows that they can become a deadly trap. For that he uses a quote by George Carlin, his all-time favourite comedian: People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.

Through this book, Lenny helps his readers find the funny and joyful parts in everything even painful matters.

OVERJOYOUS

Early in life, Lenny was diagnosed as an overjoyous child. He was labelled as a disturbed kid, boxed-in and punished by teachers who could not handle his positivity and creativity. That inspired him to become an educator who would make a difference. In his career as a teacher first, then educator and inspector Lenny has helped marginalized youth transform from dropouts to achievers.

Lenny often jokes about the difference between a disturbed child and a disturbed adult. The first one suffers insults and unfair criticism. But then he grows up to become a great speaker, or an expert who gets paid in one hour what a teacher gets in a quarter of a year.

INSPIRING THE WORLDS EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Lenny is an educational thought leader. He is a positive critic of the current educational system and the misery that it brings to students, teachers, and parents alike. He offers an alternative mindset that he himself has implemented during his 40-year career. He uses fun, mindfulness and emotional connection to facilitate a learning environment where everyone thrives.

IT IS NOT EASIER SAID THAN DONE

Lenny believes that the best things in life are easier DONE than said. This is similar to Yodas Do, there is no try. It also reminds us of when Moses asked the Israelites if they would receive the Ten Commandments, and they said, All that the LORD has said we will do and we will hear (Exodus 24:7).

For you, the reader, it may sound counterintuitive. Hold on for a second. Reflect back to your past. It is likely that the common thread in your successes so far (and in most peoples successes) is that you did something. You took action. You did not let doubts and fears hold you back. It was Easier DONE than said.

The only way this book will work for you is if you take a leap of faith and abandon the myth that you need to suffer, living in fear and pain.