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November 2009

This Is Not A Review Of How To Be Rich And Happy

by Andy on November 25, 2009

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This not so much a review of the book – I’m not quite ready to do that – It is instead an off the cuff response to a series of comments made on another site. The comments prompted me to examine whether I thought the book could help me get “rich”.
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I Want To Overcome My Self Limiting Beliefs

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Overcoming self limiting beliefs is an essential part of my progress in learning to be happy.
In the book, How to Be Rich and Happy, beliefs and related topics are very well covered and it follows on nicely from the personal values work covered immediately prior. I liked the way I was able to tie in [...]

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How To Find Happiness Now On Twitter

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At some stage I will write about what I’m calling “my failure online”, but I already know I didn’t really fail and that thinking about it in such terms isn’t helpful.
I’ll come back to that later, but for now I wanted to mention my interest in Twitter.
As part of my previous endeavors online Twitter was [...]

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Identify Your Values and Start to Find Happiness

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I’ve had what I can confidently describe as a breakthrough in my quest to find happiness!
Another piece of the jigsaw has fallen into place and I’m absolutely delighted.
Over the weekend I went through the “values elicitation” exercise in chapter 5 of How To Be Rich and Happy, and I’ve ended up making some solid progress.
I [...]

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How To Use A Self Help Book

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The premise of this site is that I’m using a self help book to transform my life from an unhappy existence, to a life of happiness and fulfillment.
You probably can’t fail to notice that the book is called How to Be Rich and Happy. I guess it’s fairly obvious with the massive banner over on the [...]

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I Want To Be Happy, But What Else Do I Want?

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Aside from the fact I want to be happy, I’ve given some thought to what else I want to get from this whole process of using How To Be Rich And Happy. It’s not a definitive list by any means but I want to document it now to see how it compares to a similar [...]

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Even The Best Self Help Books Are Useless

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Although it may appear I’m directing this at you personally, and telling you why self help books don’t work for you, actually I’m addressing myself. I talk about you but really I mean me.
That said, I don’t know your circumstances, so maybe this applies to you as well?
I don’t really believe they’re all useless, but [...]

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Character Traits: Positive And Negative

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Do you have any character traits that you’d like to change? If you do, I’m guessing they’re probably negative character traits. I have a few, but I also have plenty of positive attributes too and I’m going to list some of them here.
Over the years I’ve changed and not necessarily for the better. The events [...]

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Is The Opposite Of Unhappiness, Happiness?

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How to find happiness is a question I’ve asked myself very often over the last ten years and the answer has been somewhat elusive.
Maybe the answer has been staring me in the face the whole time and I just haven’t noticed it, or maybe the solutions I found during my search were fragmented or incomplete?
I [...]

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