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Get Glad: Your Practical Guide To A Happier Life Kindle Edition

by Harry Hoover (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Cheer Up! You Can Buy Happiness

REVIEW: This wonderful little book is indeed a "practical guide to a happier life" written by a wise man who communicates clearly and compellingly. It is appropriate for those who enjoy the holiday season and for those who struggle during it.

REVIEW: Harry Hoover’s Get Glad - Your Practical Guide to a Happier Life, is a stimulating personal growth book that begins with Hoover’s own story of overcoming early obstacles in life. His central theme is gratitude, and rightly so. His ideas are recounted in an authentic way that will keep you turning the pages. I was hooked from the first paragraph.
Finding love and happiness is something everyone wants, right? I believe that happiness comes first. And it isn’t that hard with Get Glad – Your Practical Guide To A Happier Life, a book that leads you through scientifically proven ways to become a little bit happier day-by-day. Finding happiness in yourself through gratitude is the book’s central tenet. You'll learn how to simplify your life through the gratitude effect. Gratitude works! The book contains gratitude journal prompts for you. You don't need a happiness app. Get Glad teaches you how to find happiness within yourself. It outlines how mindfulness, gratitude and purpose are the path to a happier life. Pretty soon, you'll be happier because you will understand that happiness is a choice you make.

Author Harry Hoover says, “My purpose in life is to help others on their self-improvement journey. I believe that all people should have some measure of happiness in their lives, so I wrote Get Glad to show readers how to get happier, how to be better than before.”

You've probably read other self-help books whose programs were too difficult to implement. "Get Glad" is so simple and effective, it is delivering the happiness advantage right now to readers around the world. It's not happiness for dummies, or happiness for beginners. It's happiness for smart people who are willing to implement my simple strategy. This life-changing, motivational book will help you in your personal growth. Even if you aren't blessed with happy genes. It's like having a tribe of mentors in a short, simple-to-read book. Come with us on this simple, practical step-by-step journey to answer the question: what is happiness?

Place Get Glad In Your Cart & Start Finding Happiness And Success! You’ll be more than 10 percent happier, and better than before.

If you liked The Happiness Project Journal, The Gratitude Journal, When Breath Becomes Air, Stumbling on Happiness, or The Happiness Advantage, you will enjoy this book. Want to be furiously happy? Of course, you do. Then, Get Glad.

So, get at least 10 percent happier, finding happiness in yourself with Get Glad: Your Practical Guide To A Happier Life.

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Just hearing the title of Harry Hoover's Get Glad makes it pretty clear what it's about. Get Glad is a short and sweet guide (less than 70 pages!) that doesn't aspire to achieving total, utter, eternal happiness, instead aiming to simply make your life happier. Happiness, Harry points out, is too lofty a goal to achieve; everyone is sad or upset sometimes and that's okay!

This quick little read explores how happiness is a choice and lists different ways to become happier. Being grateful, living in the moment, having close friends and finding a purpose are all explored in just enough depth to expertly walk the line between insightful and overkill. While the book is short, it certainly doesn't lack specifics - Harry has numerous exercises and some of the most extensive lists I've ever seen in a book (one lists 500 potential things to be grateful for!).

What I really loved about this book is that it chose a few really effective ways to become happier and then tackles them very well.
-- Official Review Online Book Club 4 out of 4 Stars
"This wonderful little book is indeed a"practical guide to a happier life" written by a wise man who communicates clearly and compellingly. It is appropriate for those who enjoy the holiday season and for those who struggle during it. After listing the top 7 reasons why people are not happy, Hoover suggests ways to overcome these concerns and then directs us toward a more practical goal: happier, not happy,as the latter is harder to define.

Key to improving our attitude is gratitude. Count your blessings, not your problems. Take some practical steps: get enough sleep, eat wisely and often, exercise regularly. Make some more profound changes: be grateful, be mindful, be a friend. Most importantly, figure out your Why, your Purpose, and pursue it with commitment."

-- Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.

"Great book. It really gives you guidance on how to be happy.They main keys are gratitude and taking responsibility for your actions. I think myself a reasonably happy person but Harry Hoover shows me why and how to get happier - if that is possible. This is a must read for those who feel they are victims and that their unhappiness is the fault of others! I quote Harry's reason #3 for one's unhappiness: "Inability to accept responsibility for your life. Unhappy people tend to view themselves as victims, that life is hard and out of their control. Instead of figuring a way out of a problem, the unhappy person wallows in the unfairness of lift. Once you accept that you bear responsibility for your life, you are on the road to happiness." There are many good pointers on how to be happy - don't covet what others have,appreciate what you have. My concern is that those who need this advice most,are so unhappy that they will not read it!"

-- Rich Weggel, Ph.D.

"Harry Hoover's Get Glad - Your Practical Guide to a Happier Life, is a stimulating personal growth book that begins with Hoover's own story of overcoming early obstacles in life. His central theme is gratitude, and rightly so. His ideas are recounted in an authentic way that will keep you turning the pages. I was hooked from the first paragraph. I have read many self-help books with impractical, difficult to implement programs. This is not a weighty book of theories, but rather one that can be read,and then re-read, and then recommended to others who intentionally want to live with more glad thoughts and feelings. Hoover's book is organized for a quick read with pithy principles and lists that will inspire.

In one of my favorite sections, Hoover creatively compares the seven steps of wine-tasting to seven steps for getting glad. He has many sensible suggestions for clearing obstacles that keep glad feelings from flourishing, which I practiced today. I recommend Get Glad for anyone who -simply put - wants to Get Glad."

-- Kenneth Mills, Ph.D.

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My purpose in life is to help others on their self-improvement journey. I believe that all people should have some measure of happiness in their lives, so I wrote Get Glad to show readers how I got happier. It worked for me. It can work for you.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01MFXCZ58
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harry Hoover (October 10, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 10, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1421 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 117 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,297,157 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,483 in Consciousness & Thought (Kindle Store)
- #5,652 in Spiritual Growth Self-Help
- #10,593 in Happiness

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Welcome to my author page. I am Harry Hoover, a self-improvement author, writer-for-hire, and speaker.

I've been a radio and newspaper journalist, covering cops and courts, a daily call-in talk show host, served as a columnist and managing editor, as well as a color commentator for UNCC basketball. Most recently, I owned an ad agency, which I sold to my business partner in 2015 so I could devote more time to writing.

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Self-Improvement Books

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Although my first book is called Moving To Charlotte: The Un-Tourist Guide, I consider it a self-improvement book, too. Our town offers great jobs, superb outdoor recreational opportunities, varied housing options, as well as interesting urban and suburban neighborhoods. A move here is a step toward self-improvement.

Born Creative: Free Your Mind, Free Yourself is my second book. This book helps you learn how to free your mind from societal influences so you can plan the life you desire.

Get Glad: Your Practical Guide To A Happier Life helps you understand why you aren't happy and provides highly actionable ideas on how to get happier a little at a time.

My latest book is The Dad's Book of Jokes: Dad Jokes, Bad Jokes, Groaners & One-Liners. This book is for Dads and kids everywhere who love bad jokes, dad jokes, groaners, and one-liners. These are the jokes that Mom just shakes her head at, while the kids - and Dad - are howling.

If you'd like more motivational and self-improvement tips, visit me at https://medium.com/@harryhoover.

My wife, Terry, a mystery author, and I live near Lake Norman, North Carolina. We're blessed to be close to our son and grandsons.

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Christie Sears

Just open your eyes a little wider!

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2017

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I recently finished reading "Get Glad - Your Practical Guide To A Happier Life." This book stresses how imperative it is to recognize things for which one is grateful on a daily basis. Now that I becoming more self-aware, I am finding that I can't even transfer my gratitude to paper fast enough for it is alive and all around me.... A few weeks ago, my husband and son witnessed a horrific car accident at their intersection while on a bike ride- gratitude: only a few feet and several seconds separated them from a car that ran a red light. All of the things that I often fret over seemed to wash away. And at church last Sunday we had a guest pastor from Kenya and learned about one of their missions to feed the hungry and how it is common for young children in some areas to CARRY GLUE IN THEIR SHIRT SLEEVES TO SNIFF IN ORDER TO MASK HUNGER PAINS! It took everything I had in me not to break down in tears. That, and the fact that members of their congregation walk MILES on Sunday morning to attend service - gratitude: this has encouraged me to work with my family on practicing gratitude how we must never again think twice about doing something else with our time on a Sunday because if we are not there and our offering is not received, we could be letting someone down in our local community or even across the globe (and to be perfectly honest, I had never really thought about it in that context before). And later that same day, I took a Strength Training class and the instructor was a woman my age, who had a prosthetic leg and two robotic arms. She was in much better shape than myself and within the first three minutes of class it was clear that she was going to be tough. I knew I had to bring it... there were times I wanted to modify, to go easy, but I couldn't - it was not a choice for me. How could I? How dare I? - gratitude: I was sore for a week but here is what my attention to gratitude has delivered me: 1. Divine intervention is always at work 2. My absence is impressed upon those I never even knew were counting on me and 3. Strength is only limited by my mind. I just needed to open my eyes a little wider...

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mabeire

Full of good ideas!

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2017

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So far, so good! Haven't finished it yet, but already picked up some interesting information.

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Douglas Winslow Cooper

GET GLAD, a Special Book for This Holiday Season

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2016

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This wonderful little book is indeed a "practical guide to a happier life" written by a wise man who communicates clearly and compellingly. It is appropriate for those who enjoy the holiday season and for those who struggle during it.

After listing the top 7 reasons why people are not happy, Hoover suggests ways to overcome these concerns and then directs us toward a more practical goal: happier, not happy, as the latter is harder to define.

Key to improving our attitude is gratitude. Count your blessings, not your problems.

Take some practical steps: get enough sleep, eat wisely and often, exercise regularly.

Make some more profound changes: be grateful, be mindful, be a friend.

Most importantly, figure out your Why, your Purpose, and pursue it with commitment.

This book would make a fine gift at this holiday season!

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Monika Werner

Go to guide you will read over and over again

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2016

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I'm so glad that I downloaded Harry Hoover's 'Get Glad'. A truly inspirational and practical guide to help you live a happier life. I am a strong believer in a gratitude practice, so seeing Harry's suggestions really made me happy. The book is full of examples and helps you incorporate everything suggested into your daily life. The information is expertly presented and it's a book I will definitely look into over and over again to get inspired to keep working on my happiness. Thank you!

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Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2019

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Could’ve been a pamphlet. Way too brief.

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blue argon

Insanely practical smile machine

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2016

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In the chaos filled world we all call home today, we all stumble below the happiness bar and have a hard time getting our smiles back. Harry Hoover's Get Glad is an insanely practical and nuances look at how to lift your spirits. Whether you want a step-by-step recipe for what to do to get out of the doldrums or you want to read about the general principles of happiness that you are definitely ignoring, Harry has the one resource for you.

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LB

You're in for a real treat with Harry's writing style....

Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2016

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I've never met the author, but his writing style had me feeling like we were sitting together in the living room having a comfortable, yet stimulating, conversation between friends. Packed with warm, down to earth, practical information, this book can provide encouragement and steps toward happier days straight away. I hope many other readers enjoy the same happy experience that I did with 'Get Glad' - thanks Harry!

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Rachel Tomcak

Easy to follow, great guide

Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2017

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This guide gives realistic advice on how to find happiness for yourself. The links to outside articles
or websites were a huge bonus I really enjoyed. I took copious notes and definitely felt energized while reading this!

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Cheer Up! You Can Buy Happiness

REVIEW: This wonderful little book is indeed a "practical guide to a happier life" written by a wise man who communicates clearly and compellingly. It is appropriate for those who enjoy the holiday season and for those who struggle during it.

Place Get Glad In Your Cart & Start Finding Happiness And Success! You’ll be more than 10 percent happier, and better than before.

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