NEW YORK, NY — In this concluding article we provide you, our dear readers, the necessary guidance and tools to build a life of purpose. Helping and serving others is the key to your achieving and maintaining happiness in your life as the various books, seminars, TED talks, videos and webinars named below, will show you, including some with data to support that contention.
Books. Choose those with a lot of positive reviews by customers. In choosing books, ensure that the titles have a narrow and tight focus. I suggest these books on the life-purpose-of-serving-others-leading-to-happiness connection:
• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life (336 in sales rank)
• Immediate Happiness: Be Happy Now Using Practical Steps with Immediate Proven Results (60 customer reviews, with 55 or 92 percent giving maximum five stars)!
• The Happiness Toolbox: 56 Practices to Find Happiness, Purpose and Productivity in Love, Work and Life (the 56 practices in this book are science-based)
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Seminars. Attend seminars presented by people who are genuine givers to others, interested in your success and happiness, not just out of their own enrichment. Find out by going on Google, what has been written — good or bad — about them. I suggest this one:
Tony Robbins, author of bestsellers and a motivational speaker, says in essence, in his Key to A Happy Life video: “Whenever you give, it is always going to come back!”
TED Talks. Look for the number of views on the bottom right of the video. Check out if they have written books or done seminars on the life purpose-happiness connection. I recommend two speakers:
Robert Waldinger, whose TED talk had an unbelievable 25 million-plus views as of 25 January, is a psychologist. His TED talk gist: “What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life is not fame and money. It’s something else that is based on a 75-year-old study on adult development with data on true happiness and satisfaction.” He shares important lessons from this study based on extensive scientific evidence. But to me, money is important.
Emily Esfahani Smith had an amazing 6.6 million-plus views on her TED talk as of 25 January. She authored The Power of Meaning: Finding Fulfillment in a World Obsessed with Happiness.
Videos. View those by authors of books, motivational speakers or other successful, happy people in different endeavors — on life purpose as it relates to developing and increasing happiness or, better still, on this cause-effect relationship that they can prove, using studies done by qualified psychologists.
Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, in a video with 699,000+ views, distills 40 years of social science research into a surprising set of answers on what makes you happy. What is important is that his conclusions are not his opinion. They are based on scientific research.
Webinars. Go online to view them presented by people whose clients have written sincere comments on the value they received from topics the webinar presenter discussed. I suggest:
T. Harv Eker, who reveals in his Zero to Multimillionaire web class what were the six major principles that made the difference in either leaving him being broke or earning millions …
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