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  • 10 Daily Practices For a Happier Life
  • By: Martha Beck
  • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
  • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Discover a menu of 10 behaviors you can add to your way of living and thinking to enhance every day’s journey through the unpredictable terrain of your existence. Add these behaviors gradually and watch your life become steadily more vivid and satisfying. Or you can go on a “crash Joy Diet” to help you navigate life’s emergencies. 

The 10 menu items are: 

  • Nothing: Do nothing for 15 minutes a day. Stop mindlessly chasing goals and figure out which goals are worth going after. 
  • Truth: Create a moment of truth to help you unmask what you’re hiding - from others and from yourself. 
  • Desire: Identify, articulate, and explore at least one of your heart’s desires - and learn how to let yourself want what you want. 
  • Creativity: Learn six new ways to develop at least one new idea to help you obtain your heart’s desire. 
  • Risk: Take one baby step toward reaching your goal. The only rule is it has to scare the pants off you. 
  • Treats: Give yourself a treat for every risk you take and two treats just because you’re you. No exceptions. No excuses. 
  • Play: Take a moment to remember your real life’s work and differentiate it from the games you play to achieve it. Then play wholeheartedly. 
  • Laughter: Laugh at least thirty times a day. Props encouraged. 
  • Connection: Use your Joy Diet skills to interact with someone who matters to you. 
  • Feasting: Enjoy at least three square feasts a day, with or without food. 

No matter what your long-term goals are, The Joy Diet, written with Martha Beck’s inimitable blend of wisdom, practical guidance, and humor, will help you achieve the immediate gift of joyful living in the here and now. Begin your journey today. 

©2003 Martha Beck (P)2003 Books on Tape, Inc., Published By Arrangement with Random House Audio Publishing Group, A Division of Random House, Inc.

Critic Reviews

"Written in a down-to-earth, positive tone, the author's thoughtfully designed exercises, inspirational anecdotes and gentle advice should fall on fertile ground." (Publishers Weekly)
"These prescriptions will be inviting to everyone." (AudioFile)

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This book is so good. The author opens your heart with her story and shares her insights with a sense of humour and lightness.
You might find yourself enjoying some pretty serious subject matter while examining your own life and relationships.
You can't help but be changed by reading The Joy Diet and even moreso by the exercises.

Thank you for your courage, Martha. I loved it.

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Another wonderful offering by Martha Beck. Martha's words are comforting and encouraging with just the right amount of humour

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