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The Joy Diet

10 Daily Practices For a Happier Life

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The Joy Diet

By: Martha Beck
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
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 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” to help you navigate life’s emergencies. The ten menu items are:

• Nothing: Do nothing for fifteen minutes a day. Stop mindlessly chasing goals and figure out which goals are worth going after.

• Truth: Create a moment of truth to help you unmask what you’re hiding—from others and from yourself.

• Desire: Identify, articulate, and explore at least one of your heart’s desires—and learn how to let yourself want what you want.

• Creativity: Learn six new ways to develop at least one new idea to help you obtain your heart’s desire.

• Risk: Take one baby step toward reaching your goal. The only rule is it has to scare the pants off you.

• Treats: Give yourself a treat for every risk you take and two treats just because you’re you. No exceptions. No excuses.

• Play: Take a moment to remember your real life’s work and differentiate it from the games you play to achieve it. Then play wholeheartedly.

• Laughter: Laugh at least thirty times a day. Props encouraged.

• Connection: Use your Joy Diet skills to interact with someone who matters to you.

• Feasting: Enjoy at least three square feasts a day, with or without food.

No matter what your long-term goals are, The Joy Diet, written with Martha Beck’s inimitable blend of wisdom, practical guidance, and humor, will help you achieve the immediate gift of joyful living in the here and now. Begin your journey today. Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success Inspiring Witty Heartfelt
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If like me you enjoy books with few week programs and manuals to follow you will enjoy this one. I have read/listed to some of Martha's other books and always enjoy her loving and kind tone, and lack of preaching tone so prevalent in today's self-help/personal development books.
I certainly would prefer this one in hard copy as you are embarking on a new item each week and I find it easier to do it with a book i can flip through the pages, highlight most main ideas and go back and re-read parts. In essence you listen to a bit of a book every week, implement and then move onto the next. Since I listen to audio books while driving the format of this book made it somewhat redundant for a long drive.

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It baffles me how much we (adults) have forgotten what life is about. I connect greatly with Martha Beck style and it was a great reminder to start enjoying life more now, and not after achieving x, y or z. I didn’t love the narrator voice/style but it might just be my personal preference.

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