The Happiness Handbook

By Lorenzo S. Littles

This Handbook demonstrates how to use your power of choice to create the happiness you want. A simple technique for defining your happiness; Visualization as a means of supporting your happiness; Effective methods for accomplishing any task from the very simple to the extremely complex; How to recognize and appreciate your happiness. It's easy to read with illustrations that comically demonstrate important points. The message is simple and clear: Happiness is available to all of us, it is our birth right. We need only claim it. Begin today to transform your life and create the happiness and peace of mind that is yours for the making.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Forester and Cohen
• Release date: Nov 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9780983942252

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Title Page

THE HAPPINESS HANDBOOK

By Lorenzo S. Littles

Illustrations by Scott C, Stone, Jr.

Publisher Information

The Happiness Handbook

published in 2012 by Andrews UK Limited

www.andrewsuk.com

Forester & Cohen Publishing, LLC

5257 Buckeystown Pike Suite 423

Frederick, Maryland 21704

cohenpublishing.com

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Copyright © Lorenzo S. Littles 2012

The right of Lorenzo S. Littles to be identified as author of this book has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Dedications

Joyfully dedicated to Corliss, Arielle, Wyatt, my mother Martha, Dr. Emmons, Adriane, Frank, Lymott, and Zach, the people who comprise my inner circle, and to all my family and friends who have consistently given me love and acceptance. Thank you for believing in me. Also dedicated to the countless victims of the world’s natural and man-made disasters. Persevere and keep faith.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Angie Butiong, Charlotte Walker. Ruth Emmons, Mary Ellen Caron, Stan Kirtley, Charles White, Cecilia Mowatt, Lindel Forbes, Joyce Walker, Yucara Larkin, Brenda Montgomery, Johnny Diggs, Carolyn DuBose, Jackie Cook, Mary Vana and Hattie Foster for your encouragement, your substantive and editorial comments, and your support.

About the Collaborators

Lorenzo Littles is an attorney working for a Fortune 500 corporation in Southlake, Texas where he resides with his wife and two children. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, a Masters degree from Princeton University, and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. An active participant in a variety of social and civic organizations, he was a candidate for the Illinois House of Representatives in November, 1992. The Happiness Handbook., his first publication., is a compilation of notes and speeches from his searching over the past twenty years.

Illustrator Dr. Scott Stone, Jr was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and obtained his medical degree from the University of Illinois. He practiced medicine in Chicago where he lived with his wife and two children. As an undergraduate and medical student. Dr. Stone worked as a cartoonist; a skill he developed for relaxation and recreation. Dr. Stone is survived by his two children.

Confucius say: Happy is the man who thinks he is.

Introduction

Life is hard and life is unfair. It is today, it was yesterday and, unless something dramatically different happens, it will be tomorrow. Today life is also more complex than it has ever been. There are more choices than we have time to make and more dangers, real and imagined, than we can cope with. On top of everything else, work, school, family life and our social and religious institutions continue to change faster than we can comfortably adjust. OK, so after years and years of struggling to make your life what it is today, why do you need another