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Practical advice on how to thrive in the second half of your life, based on scientific studies. The sixth book in the bestselling 100 Simple Secrets series.

What do people who relish the second half of their lives do differently than those who dread getting older? Sociologists, therapists and psychiatrists have spent entire careers investigating the ins and outs of successful aging, yet their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals to be shared with other experts.

Now the international bestselling author of The 100 Simple Secrets series has collected the most current and significant data from more than a thousand of the best scientific studies on the second half of life. These findings have been boiled down to one hundred essential ways to find and maintain joy, health, and satisfaction every day of your life. Each one is accompanied by a true story showing the results in action.

The Baby Boomers are hitting retirement age. This upbeat, light approach will appeal to the enormous market of citizens grappling with the effects of becoming 'senior', looking to discover the positive benefits of aging beyond discount tickets at the movie theatre. Books about aging well continue to sell year in and year out. The Simple Secrets approach will stand out among the heavier self-help/psychology titles and will without a doubt become an affordable impulse and gifty mainstay in this category.

A good inexpensive gift for parents and grandparents.

ISBN-13: 9780060564735

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Publication Date: 04-05-2005

Pages: 224

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 7.38(h) x 0.56(d)

Series: 100 Simple Secrets #5

David Niven, Ph.D., bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series, is a psychologist and social scientist who teaches at Ohio State University. David Niven, Ph.D., es el autor de los bestsellers internacionales Los 100 Secretos de la Gente Exitosa, y Los 100 Secretos de las Buenas Relaciones. Es psicólogo y científico social, y enseña en la Florida Atlantic University.

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100 Simple Secrets of the Best Half of Life
Chapter OneHappiness Is Not an Accident

We have strategies for most things in our lives — from work, togames, to how to get home from town two minutes faster. But weleave some of the most important parts of our lives, like our happiness,to chance. Happiness is not like height; you don't just get acertain amount and then have to live with it. Happiness can beimproved — if you know what you are doing and what you are notdoing, and you care to change.

For Patrick, it started with a request from a neighbor. Theneighbor had played the part of Santa Claus for several years, creatinga tradition of a visit from Santa to all the children in theneighborhood. But one year, Santa had a cold and asked whetherPatrick could take over for him that day.

Patrick donned the suit and passed out candy canes and goodwishes to all the neighborhood children, calling them each byname and convincing them he was for real. "When I put on thesuit, I actually felt like Santa Claus," Patrick says. "It was a trulymagical feeling."

When the old Santa saw how much Patrick enjoyed the job, hetold Patrick he would be happy to let him take over. Patrick saw thepotential for sharing some joy with others and expanded the reachof his duties from his neighborhood to area hospitals. "Sick childrenwould light up when they saw me," Patrick recalls. "I wouldsit with them, and they would smile from ear to ear. It was such anhonor to be able to bring them a good feeling like that."

Over the years the Santa suit wore out and Patrick upgraded toa top-of-the-line model — "the kind they use at the really goodmalls," heexplains.

Patrick has been playing Santa for so long now that he's beginningto see the children of the children he saw as Santa when hefirst started out. But Patrick has no plans to find a new man for thesuit. "Santa never retires," he says.

Researchers found that the majority of the subjects they
studied were not able to identify anything they had done
recently to try to increase their happiness or life satisfaction.<