The Forgotten Art of Happiness
By Ali Zakaria
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Do you wake up every morning feeling anxious about how you will survive this day with the same dissatisfaction and depression?
Are you continuously overthink everything you do or say?
You thought that achieving monetary success is the way to happiness, but it is not happening.
Ali Zakaria is a judge in Cairo, Egypt, who witnessed litigations daily in the courtroom and witnessed how success and winning did not always bring happiness. Divorce, theft, assassinations, he has seen it all.
He spent five years and hundreds of court cases trying to answer these questions about happiness for himself and others.
Does more money always make us happier? If not, why?
Does winning always improve life? If not, why?
Does revenge heal wounds?
In this read, Ali Zakaria offers a unique approach to happiness from his experience listening to and deciding litigations.
The real happiness mindset: the mindset to wake up to every morning with the motivation you need to crush your day.
The actions that make us smile: what are the activities that can make you happy on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis
The happy diet: food and magic beverage to supercharge your mood
Happy relationships: how to develop relationships make your day better, not bitter
Releasing your happiness hormones
Don't let yourself fall into the happiness scam again: more money, more success, more power. Learn to build a lifestyle that brings real and sustainable happiness. If you don't want your life to become a courtroom case, click buy now and learn from Ali's experience.
Ali Zakaria
I am a best selling author and a judge in the family court since 2009, but I have been following my passion for self-help and spirituality since 2005. I am a certified NLP practitioner by the international federation of coaching, NLP and Time Line therapy practitioner by the TimeLine therapy association, and author of the book “The forgotten art of happiness”. I attended a numerous seminars and workshops online and offline on coaching, meditation, spirituality, and business. My exposure to the domestic conflicts in the family court put me close to real life scenarios, I have seen the truth of human emotions and how feelings can change our decisions and my passion took me from a shy anxious thin guy to a fit, self-aware, determined man. I went through a long journey of self-discovery by consuming a lot of knowledge, writing, and monitoring and analyzing my actions. I am also the founder of A Space to Be; it is an initiative which organizes workshops, group discussions, and retreats to help people find out who they really are.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Recommend to buy soon as possible because The forgotten art of happiness is a book that regenerated my inner peace and reminded me that I deserve to be happy , and the importance of happiness . Also that happiness lies in the smallest thing , it’s not supposed when I achieve a huge goal but the experience and special moments I face during the process of achieving it . Immediately , after reading this book I just felt happy naturally l ; although , I didn’t take time to follow what’s written in the book. Reading it just gives you happiness .
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5extraordinary book and with practical guide and advise of how to come out of depression anxiety fear. this book totally describes that happiness cant be found its always within ourselves and especially this book tells the experience of people around the world about how positivity made them productive and healthier life style Ali Zakaria had done an excellent piece of work
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The Forgotten Art of Happiness - Ali Zakaria
The Forgotten Art of Happiness
52 Ideas That Will Change Your Life
ALI ZAKARIA
2018
Copyright © 2018 by Ali Zakaria
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof
may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever
without the express written permission of the publisher
except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
First edition, 2018
ISBN 13: 978-1724560629
ISBN 10: 172456062X
www.alizakaria.com
Acknowledgments
I would love to thank you, the reader, as you made the decision to take a step closer to your happiness and buy this book.
I would love to thank my mother and sister, as they encouraged me to finish this book.
I would love to thank myself for finishing this book.
I would love to thank the persons that agreed to be interviewed for this book.
I would love to thank Amber Richberger, my editor; it is because of her this book looks so good.
I would love to thank the Actions for Happiness movement in the United Kingdom, as they provided me with powerful resources.
I would love to thank Brené Brown, as she is tackling a new topic that changed the way I look at happiness.
I would love to thank my job, as it provided me with time and money while writing this book.
I would love to thank every person that I had a conversation with about this book; you all have really inspired me.
I would love to thank every person who told me that I would not finish this book; it is because of you I have finished it.
Ali Zakaria provides advice that is both simple and wise, both rigorous and practical. Read the book, apply its lessons, and enjoy higher levels of fulfillment and happiness
Tal Ben-Shahar
Best-selling author of Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment and lecturer on positive psychology at Harvard University.
Preface
S
ince my second year in law school, I felt there was more to life and that I could live a life that was happier and more fulfilling. I started to attend seminars and workshops, read books, and I even tried to build a business. I was employed as a judge in 2009 but always felt that it wasn’t my true calling. Even if some people see it as a very prestigious position and believe I should be grateful for having such an opportunity, I always felt that there was more. After spending so many years studying positive psychology, human behavior, awareness and consciousness, and getting certified in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and Time Line Therapy (TLT), I felt that I had a message to share. I feel that if everyone knew what I knew, they would live a happier life and the world would be a better place.
I thought about writing a book, but I was not confident because I had never written before. It took me four years to hear the following quote from the fellow writer Louisa May Alcott: Don’t worry too much about your process'.
[1] After that, I began writing, telling myself I would enjoy the writing process; I would worry about publishing later. After two and a half years, I finished my book without even noticing. I was just researching, experimenting, writing, and interviewing and I enjoyed every single moment of it.
Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword by Eric Edmeades
Introduction
The Structure of the Book:
How to Deal with This Book?
What is Happiness?
Have You Ever Asked Yourself, Why Should I Be Happy
?
Part One: Happy Mind
1. Decide
2. Clean Your Mind
3. You Are Ready for It
4. Forgive Yourself
5. Happiness Requires Some Sadness
6. Accept Your Negative Feelings
7. Stress Isn't Going to Solve Anything
8. You Are Where You Are Supposed to Be:
9. You Are Not the Only Person Going Through This:
10. Do Not Think About the Problem, Think About the Solution
11. Look for the Opportunity, Not the Obligation
12. Don’t Attach Your Happiness to a Goal
13. You Deserve Happiness
Part Two: Happy Actions
14. It’s Not as Scary as It Looks
15. You Are Not a Machine
16. Do One Thing at a Time
17. Appreciate What You Have
18. Transform Your Anger into Positive Energy
19. Tame Your Brain
20. Evaluate Your Life
21. Make Your Own List
22. Have a To-Be List
23. Determine What You Want
24. Legacy Is Better Than Currency
25. Have a Meaningful and Pleasurable Goal
26. Do Something for Yourself
27. Happiness is a Muscle
28. Be Balanced
29. Be Congruent
30. Have Faith
31. Watch Your Body Gestures
32. Anchor Your Happiness
33. Be Steadfast
34. Your Happy Version
35. Live Like You are Driving
36. Use Every Opportunity to Overcome Your Sadness
37. Say YES
More Often
38. Consider Minimalism
39. Do Not Let Anything Define You, Other Than You
40. Capture the Moment
Part Three: Happy Body
41. Eat Happy Food
42. Move Your Body
43. Increase Your Happiness Hormones
44. Following Your Lusts and Desires Will Not Make You Happy
Part Four: Happy Relationships
45. Maintain Good Relationships
46. Don’t Care About What People Think of You
47. Don’t Compare Yourself to Others
48. Surround Yourself with People Who Share Your Mission
49. Ask Positive Questions
50. In a World Full of Red Buttons, Be a Green One
51. Don’t Let Anyone Pull You to His/Her Energy
52. Happiness Sells
Part Five: Interviews with People Who Finished the 100 Happy Days Challenge
Azza:
Ghada
Meital
Esraa
Dalia
Citations
Foreword
by Eric Edmeades
I
was not happy, and neither was my wife. Life was testing us and we were failing.
We had invested in a movie studio and found, shortly after investing and taking control of the company, that the owners had defrauded us. They had misrepresented almost everything about the company and then, to make matters worse, one of them stole the technology we had purchased and set up a competitive company with the same name.
Soon it turned out that they had been using the company to raise funds for scam after scam and we inherited all the difficulties that came with their behavior; within a few weeks of purchasing the company, I was slammed with a variety of legal threats and lawsuits. Then I found out that one of the partners had done the transaction under a false name and had, previously, faced prosecution that carried a 493-year jail sentence had they not allowed him a soft plea-bargain.
Every week, we lived in fear. Every week, we worried about making payroll and preserving everyone’s jobs. Every week, we worried about our own future. Every week, we were stressed, worried, and unhappy.
My wife and I went for a walk and talked about our unhappiness and our stress. We reached a decision; happiness was up to us. We realized that there were people with far less than us that still found happiness. And so we decided to be happy. No matter what. Not every minute of every day, but as a habit. So, we created happiness rituals.
After a few days, we felt a lot better. Things were still scary but we decided that most of our unhappiness was about the unknown. Like the coward that dies a thousand deaths, we were unhappy because of what might or might not happen.
We found happiness. Genuine