Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The Guru Next Door
The Guru Next Door: A Teacher's Legacy by Wendy Dolber is a wonderful book that I recommend you read and learn from. Wendy had the good fortune of being next door neighbors with Bruce DiMarsico the creator of the Option Method. I love Bruce's work and have his book on my 20 best Happiness Book list on my website. This is a very rare opportunity to learn from one of the greatest happiness minds that ever lived. Bruce was ahead of his time and made things profoundly simple. Wendy gives us the gift of understanding Bruce's work from her great vantage point. This book has received endorsements (among many others) from Dr. Joe Vitale and Michael Neil, two really great authors of the happiness movement. In the beautiful words of Bruce DiMarsico, "There is no more loving vocation than to question unhappiness." Wendy has been invloved with Bruce's work since early in 1970. Bruce passed away in 1995. Deborah Mendel is the widow of Bruce DiMarsico and she recommends this book as well. The rest of us were not fortunate enough to live next to a truly happy teacher, so this book will bring you the happiness wisdom you need. With love, peace and happiness, Lionel Ketchian
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Happiness in Dubai
In pursuit of happiness
DAVID LIGHT (Staff Reporter)
26 July 2008
Dubai-based Dina Sabnani believes in spreading joy, and has founded the Happiness Club in the UAE to help people find that elusive streak of sunshine in their lives
COULDN’TWE all do with a little bit more happiness in our lives? While life in the UAE is certainly not arduous, our fast paced lifestyles can leave us feeling a bit empty. Alright so you have the car, the villa, the job that makes you a small (or large) fortune, but can we ever say we have enough laughter, friends and fun? The job that does make you a tidy sum often gets in the way of the finer things in life. Nine to five is out and in the Emirates work takes precedence.
How can one find the time to specifically dedicate to nourishing the soul, feeling good about life and enjoying oneself?
It is therefore with some considerable excitement that City Times can announce the inaugural meeting of The Happiness Club today at 3pm to 5pm at Zen restaurant, gate six of Zabeel Park Dubai. A phenomenon that originated in America and has swept across the world, Happiness Clubs are all the rage from Los Angeles to Lausanne.
Founded by American Lionel Ketchian, the first Happiness Club met in January 2000 in Fairfield, Connecticut as a result of a Happiness Class Lionel gave at a University in the state.
After the class graduated they wanted to keep meeting to continue to practice the new found happiness skills they learned hence the establishment of the Happiness Club. The Fairfield Club has been meeting every month since that date. They have continued to spread the word across the USA and the world via the internet, and Dubai is the 38th Happiness Club. At the moment there are five Happiness Clubs in countries outside the United States in: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Jerusalem, New Zealand and Switzerland. Dubai is set to become the sixth.
The UAE gets a Happiness Club
The woman responsible for bringing the idea to the UAE and recently appointed Happiness Club Ambassador for the Emirates by the founder, the effervescent Dina Sabnani, had a chat with City Times giving us the low-down on what goes on in the meetings and what she hopes to achieve with the club.
Dina has been living in Dubai for the last three years. “People here have such busy lives that they often forget that beyond the cars and villas that work affords you there needs to be happiness otherwise what’s the point? I’m an extremely happy person and I see others here that are not so I thought I would start up this group that meets every month.”
“It really all began with Facebook. With Facebook being as social as it is I have been networking with some interesting people across the world and one of those was a popular law of attraction coach in the US.
Through him I got an invite for International Happiness Day which is on July 10 and has its own group on Facebook. I just loved the concept of it so I went and checked it out and they were looking for ambassadors for different countries.
I asked them what I had to do to be ambassador for the UAE and they said, ‘Just ask,’ so I did.”
Dina immediately began to get going on organising ideas for happiness related events and information in line with her new role. “I first of all sent out the press release advertising International Happiness Day on July 10, trying to get the word out. It got picked up online which I was really excited about. From there I set up the UAE Facebook group for the Happiness Club which now has over 185 members. And then I decided to form an actual Happiness Club where people can meet and find happiness.
These clubs are all over the US and the world so I thought I would give it a go here. It’s my way of giving something back and fulfilling my passion for doing something for humanity, as cheesy as that sounds, I’m beginning to sound like Miss Universe! But seriously I thought you have conferences on leadership, success workshops, management and stress classes so why not happiness?
Ultimately we are all looking for it so I think these classes can give people a helping hand.”
Read more: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/citytimes/inside.asp?xfile=/data/citytimes/2008/July/citytimes_July250.xml§ion=citytimes&col
DAVID LIGHT (Staff Reporter)
26 July 2008
Dubai-based Dina Sabnani believes in spreading joy, and has founded the Happiness Club in the UAE to help people find that elusive streak of sunshine in their lives
COULDN’TWE all do with a little bit more happiness in our lives? While life in the UAE is certainly not arduous, our fast paced lifestyles can leave us feeling a bit empty. Alright so you have the car, the villa, the job that makes you a small (or large) fortune, but can we ever say we have enough laughter, friends and fun? The job that does make you a tidy sum often gets in the way of the finer things in life. Nine to five is out and in the Emirates work takes precedence.
How can one find the time to specifically dedicate to nourishing the soul, feeling good about life and enjoying oneself?
It is therefore with some considerable excitement that City Times can announce the inaugural meeting of The Happiness Club today at 3pm to 5pm at Zen restaurant, gate six of Zabeel Park Dubai. A phenomenon that originated in America and has swept across the world, Happiness Clubs are all the rage from Los Angeles to Lausanne.
Founded by American Lionel Ketchian, the first Happiness Club met in January 2000 in Fairfield, Connecticut as a result of a Happiness Class Lionel gave at a University in the state.
After the class graduated they wanted to keep meeting to continue to practice the new found happiness skills they learned hence the establishment of the Happiness Club. The Fairfield Club has been meeting every month since that date. They have continued to spread the word across the USA and the world via the internet, and Dubai is the 38th Happiness Club. At the moment there are five Happiness Clubs in countries outside the United States in: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Jerusalem, New Zealand and Switzerland. Dubai is set to become the sixth.
The UAE gets a Happiness Club
The woman responsible for bringing the idea to the UAE and recently appointed Happiness Club Ambassador for the Emirates by the founder, the effervescent Dina Sabnani, had a chat with City Times giving us the low-down on what goes on in the meetings and what she hopes to achieve with the club.
Dina has been living in Dubai for the last three years. “People here have such busy lives that they often forget that beyond the cars and villas that work affords you there needs to be happiness otherwise what’s the point? I’m an extremely happy person and I see others here that are not so I thought I would start up this group that meets every month.”
“It really all began with Facebook. With Facebook being as social as it is I have been networking with some interesting people across the world and one of those was a popular law of attraction coach in the US.
Through him I got an invite for International Happiness Day which is on July 10 and has its own group on Facebook. I just loved the concept of it so I went and checked it out and they were looking for ambassadors for different countries.
I asked them what I had to do to be ambassador for the UAE and they said, ‘Just ask,’ so I did.”
Dina immediately began to get going on organising ideas for happiness related events and information in line with her new role. “I first of all sent out the press release advertising International Happiness Day on July 10, trying to get the word out. It got picked up online which I was really excited about. From there I set up the UAE Facebook group for the Happiness Club which now has over 185 members. And then I decided to form an actual Happiness Club where people can meet and find happiness.
These clubs are all over the US and the world so I thought I would give it a go here. It’s my way of giving something back and fulfilling my passion for doing something for humanity, as cheesy as that sounds, I’m beginning to sound like Miss Universe! But seriously I thought you have conferences on leadership, success workshops, management and stress classes so why not happiness?
Ultimately we are all looking for it so I think these classes can give people a helping hand.”
Read more: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/citytimes/inside.asp?xfile=/data/citytimes/2008/July/citytimes_July250.xml§ion=citytimes&col
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Finding Your Zone
The new book, Finding Your Zone, Ten Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life by Michael Lardon, M.D. The lessons are truly great lessons for athletes and everyone who want to learn how to deal with life's stresses and problems. Dr. Lardon is a sports psychiatrist who has worked with may well-known PGA, NFL, and Olympic athletes. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego. His website is www.drlardon.com or www.Knowmindsports.com. Dr. Lardon writes, "If you want to find the Zone of life, you can seek to find what makes you happy, and when you do this, your ego does not matter." I benefited from reading Finding Your Zone and enjoyed the way Dr. Lardon explains many of the ways the will better serve us in sports and in life. He shares his expertise knowledge of dealing with fear. Dr. Lardon has done a good job of explaining The Zone by using a great deal of spirituality and his wisdom is truly powerful and will make a big difference in your life. Get in the Zone today! Lionel Ketchian
Thursday, July 10, 2008
International Happiness Day
International Happiness Day, today July 10, 2008
We have a wonderful happiness gift for you!
The book: Gateway To Happiness, (A Condensed 60 page Edition) by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin has been made available to you as a free e-book. International Happiness Day is July 10th, which happens to be a year to the day that Rabbi Pliskin's mother passed away. It is Rabbi Pliskin's vision to see that people are as happy as possible. Rabbi Pliskin is happy to share his extraordinary book with you, so that you can experience the wonderful joy of happiness. Read this book, practice what you learn and you are on your way to being happy. Go to www.happinessclub.com look under the "books" section at the top of the screen and download the book for yourself, and tell your family and friends to do the same.
Gateway To Happiness is very helpful book to assist us all in understanding happiness better. It is a very enlightening and comprehensive book on happiness. The most incredible components of this book are the first four chapters. Chapter 1: Happiness is an obligation, Chapter 2: Appreciating what you have, Chapter 3: Happiness is dependent on your thoughts, and Chapter 4: Peace of mind. These four chapters include some of the best thinking and teaching explanations on happiness.
You can put your name and information at this point and send this out to everyone who you would like to have this gift book.
www.internationalhappinessday.com
Activities today:
3:30pm EST (12:30pm PST, 8:30pm UK time) - Join the phone call with Eva Gregory and Jeanna Gabellini, the US Ambassadors for International Happiness Day and the founder of the Happiness Clubs, Lionel Ketchian on specific strategies for being happier. Free registration at the website.
Downloading a list by Sonja Lyubomirsky for strategies to increase happiness - specifically created for international happiness day.
Information on how to start a local Happiness Club on the website www.happinessclub.com.
Sharing Real Love, Lasting Peace, Brilliant Health & Enduring Happiness with you,
Lionel Ketchian
www.happinessclub.com
We have a wonderful happiness gift for you!
The book: Gateway To Happiness, (A Condensed 60 page Edition) by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin has been made available to you as a free e-book. International Happiness Day is July 10th, which happens to be a year to the day that Rabbi Pliskin's mother passed away. It is Rabbi Pliskin's vision to see that people are as happy as possible. Rabbi Pliskin is happy to share his extraordinary book with you, so that you can experience the wonderful joy of happiness. Read this book, practice what you learn and you are on your way to being happy. Go to www.happinessclub.com look under the "books" section at the top of the screen and download the book for yourself, and tell your family and friends to do the same.
Gateway To Happiness is very helpful book to assist us all in understanding happiness better. It is a very enlightening and comprehensive book on happiness. The most incredible components of this book are the first four chapters. Chapter 1: Happiness is an obligation, Chapter 2: Appreciating what you have, Chapter 3: Happiness is dependent on your thoughts, and Chapter 4: Peace of mind. These four chapters include some of the best thinking and teaching explanations on happiness.
You can put your name and information at this point and send this out to everyone who you would like to have this gift book.
www.internationalhappinessday.com
Activities today:
3:30pm EST (12:30pm PST, 8:30pm UK time) - Join the phone call with Eva Gregory and Jeanna Gabellini, the US Ambassadors for International Happiness Day and the founder of the Happiness Clubs, Lionel Ketchian on specific strategies for being happier. Free registration at the website.
Downloading a list by Sonja Lyubomirsky for strategies to increase happiness - specifically created for international happiness day.
Information on how to start a local Happiness Club on the website www.happinessclub.com.
Sharing Real Love, Lasting Peace, Brilliant Health & Enduring Happiness with you,
Lionel Ketchian
www.happinessclub.com
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