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Joy on Demand
Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within | Chade-Meng Tan
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A long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Search Inside Yourself shows us how to cultivate joy within the context of our fast-paced lives and explains why it is critical to creativity, innovation, confidence, and ultimately success in every arena. In Joy on Demand, Chade-Meng Tan shows that you dont need to meditate for hours, days, months or years to achieve lasting joyyou can actually get consistent access to it in as little as fifteen seconds. Explaining joy and meditation as complementary things that naturally reinforce each other, Meng explains how these two skills form a virtuous cycle, and once put into motion, become a solid practice that can be sustained in daily life. For many years, meditation has been taught and practiced in cultures where almost all meditators practice full-time for years, resulting in training programs optimized for practitioners with lots of free time and not much else to do but develop profound mastery over the mind. Seeing a disconnect between the traditional practice and the modern world, the bestselling author and Googles Jolly Good Fellow has developed a program, through wise laziness, to help readers meditate more efficiently and effectively. Meng shares the three pillars of joy (inner peace, insight, and happiness), why joy is the secret is to success, and demonstrates the practical tools anyone can use to cultivate it on demand.
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BookHermit
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My #audiowalk with Sansa. It's +2C today! 🎉 #outside #riotgrams

PurpleyPumpkin That looks so peaceful. Beautiful!😍 8y
BookHermit @PurpleyPumpkin Small town life has its charms ☺️ 8y
MyNamesParadise I started that book and never finished it. I did buy it though.... 8y
BookHermit 😂I'm listening to it through Overdrive--guilt free! 8y
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kklemaster
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"self is a process, not an object."

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MyNamesParadise
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Whoa!!! I never thought of it that way!! I'm always thinking of regrets of the past and worrying about the future...that's why I feel the way I do...

mcipher I love this!! ❤️ 8y
MyNamesParadise @mcipher me too!! It made me realize why being in the present is so important and what it really means!! No past, no future. 8y
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MyNamesParadise
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First formal practice! Finally!! This actually works! On the bus trip to NYC I had such an intense wave of nausea consume me (side effect of an antibiotic I'm on at the moment) I thought I was gonna have to ask the driver to pull over on 95 so I could puke, but I focused on my breath, only my breath, and it went away & then fell asleep for 2 hours!

saresmoore I employ this practice daily! 8y
ReadingEnvy I am part of a librarian mindfulness group. 🤓 8y
MyNamesParadise @ReadingEnvy that's awesome!! I'm discussing mindfulness now with my therapist and trying to read a lot about it! 8y
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MyNamesParadise
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Ahhhh so that's it...

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MyNamesParadise
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I'm intrigued...must keep reading...must keep reading

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MyNamesParadise
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Ok I want the practices already so I can start learning!! I'm 24 and I already feel like my life is passing me by 😭😭

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MyNamesParadise
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I'm probably going to have to do this soon in my life if I want it to change...I just don't know what that something is 😔😔

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MyNamesParadise
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Whoa...now here's a tip that's practical and makes sense...maybe I need to put this practice into approach when dealing with irritated library customers... 🤔

ReadingOver50 I need to try this 8y
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MyNamesParadise
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Wow...I just do NOT think this way. I'm ALWAYS worrying and ALWAYS thinking of the future. Ahhh 🙈🙈 and it wares me out 😭😭😭😭

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MyNamesParadise
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Ok, soon this book needs to get to HOW to do these things instead of telling me everything that comes from it...a long chapter 1!

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MyNamesParadise
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Well this is good to know! No pun intended...ok maybe a little 🤓

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MyNamesParadise
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I shall read on to learn what these mean!

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MyNamesParadise
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I definitely know people that put up the facade to go with cockiness. I am still on the journey to Confidence, but I'm not cocky, so where does that leave me? 😳

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MyNamesParadise
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So I must not be aroused to get creative insights! 🤔

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MyNamesParadise
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The author was quoting Steve Jobs here!

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MyNamesParadise
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Whoa that makes a lot of sense!

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MyNamesParadise
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This will help my writing!!! Ahhhh!! 😃😃

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MyNamesParadise
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I wish this wasn't a library book so I could mark it up!

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MyNamesParadise
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Interesting...I need to start this journey...

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MyNamesParadise
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I would like to have this kind of joy.

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MyNamesParadise
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It's true...in the US we weren't taught those things...

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MyNamesParadise
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I'm really hoping so!!

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MyNamesParadise
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So I need to start that like now....

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MyNamesParadise
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Dang, thanks Mom & Dad 😉