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    From Crappy to Happy: Transforming Your Life from Miserable to Pleasurable in Six Weeks
    From Crappy to Happy: Transforming Your Life from Miserable to Pleasurable in Six Weeks
    From Crappy to Happy: Transforming Your Life from Miserable to Pleasurable in Six Weeks
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    From Crappy to Happy: Transforming Your Life from Miserable to Pleasurable in Six Weeks

    By Samantha Brighton

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    Whether you've lost your job, the man of your dreams, or woken up one day to realize that you have more cats than friends, sometimes it's easy to slip into the mode of looking at life through soil colored lenses. It can take little more than an annoying chirpy onlooker to stroll under your gloom cloud and state “Cheer up. Happiness is a choice, you know.” to leave you seething with resentment. Irritating as they are, here’s more bad news. They’re right. And the good news? The power to bring the downward spiral to a grinding halt is in your hands.

    Written by a reformed misery monger turned contented go getter, in six short weeks, this no holds barred guide to perpetual optimism can deliver you on a journey from the doldrums of Crappy to the life affirming realms of Happy, where you belong. From your relationships to your career, this book is brimming with sound philosophy to revolutionize your perspective, inspiring anecdotes to enrich your understanding, and practical exercises that will hand you the power to lead a life of success, a life of love, a life of sheer, unbound happiness. Let the bliss begin.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSamantha Brighton
    Release dateOct 21, 2012
    ISBN9781301780389
    From Crappy to Happy: Transforming Your Life from Miserable to Pleasurable in Six Weeks

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      From Crappy to Happy - Samantha Brighton

      FROM CRAPPY TO HAPPY

      Transforming Your Life From Miserable

      To Pleasurable In Six Weeks

      By Samantha Brighton

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      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 Samantha Brighton.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the copyright owner, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Foreword

      1. Living In The Craptrap

      2. Fleeing Craptrap Island

      3. The 7 Principles That Pave The Way To Happy

      4. Your Roadmap To Happy

      5. Choosing Your Mode Of Transport: Rollercoasters And Range Rovers

      6. Vehicle Maintenance

      7. The Knowledge Seeker

      8. Travelling Light

      9. Cul De Sacs, Road Blocks And Route Diversions

      10. Hitting The Ditch: Calling Roadside Emergency Services

      11. Traffic Control: Road Rage, Tail Gating, And Stolen Cars

      12. Destination: Happy

      Conclusion

      FOREWORD

      "People are about as happy as they make up their minds to me"

      – Abraham Lincoln.

      Let me tell you a story.

      Last year, a quadruple whammy of life blunders left me at the rockiest edge of rock bottom. Laid off from my job, I sat in my pajamas for a month, milking my position as poor, rejected one to the extent where one day, my boyfriend decided to flee. Rather than take this as a sign that my energy sapping ways weren't doing me any favors, I decided to sink even further into the well of self pity, and adopt a gloomy disposition that would have members of The Addams Family telling me to lighten up. A week later, my landlord told me he was selling, and I would need to be out within two months. As if to mark the occasion, my cat decided to cross the road minus observing the red light, winning herself a one way trip to feline heaven. I was gutted. The Universe hates me! Why me? Everything is against me, I proclaimed, wallowing in an ice cream guzzling cess pit that left my body 20% flesh and blood, 80% Haagen Dazs.

      It took a well meaning, if rather

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