Introduction

 

It has often been said that life is what you make of it. This simple thought emphasizes that happiness and enjoyment of your everyday life is primarily up to you. It is likely that you also significantly affect the happiness of those around you. Why not strive to make your life and theirs as happy as possible.

 

This chapters of this book talks about various factors that affect happiness and enjoyment of life by you, your family, your friends and anyone around you. Factors such as attitude, self image, self improvement, encouragement, praise, tolerance, fairness, sensitivity, and humor. The wonderful thing about all of these factors is that they are all controlled totally by you.

 

This book is intentionally very short, but still their is a lot here to think about. Focusing on certain topics which apply specifically to your situation may be the most helpful to you. There has been much written on the various aspects of happiness and improvement. Perhaps the thoughts discussed here may help you focus on things you can do to make your life and the life of those you affect more enjoyable. At the end of each chapter there are suggestions of specfic things you might do to improve.

 

I sincerely hope that some of the ideas addressed will be of benefit to you or to someone you care for.

 

By the way, if you have ideas about the subjects addressed in this book, I would be pleased to hear from you. Your thoughts or favorite quotes which emphasize these themes you consider important and which may be helpful to others would be welcome.

 

 

 

-- David Hamilton