JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview
5 Minutes, 5 Questions With…
Margaret Curley Sanborn, author of The Practical Guide to Happiness: If You Don’t Like How You’re Feeling, Think Again
(Think Again, Inc.)

The “pursuit of happiness” is a human right so basic that it’s named in the US Constitution. Unfortunately for most, it is little more than a pursuit, as happiness is elusive to many. “The Practical Guide to Happiness: If You Don’t Like How You’re Feeling, Think Again” delineates, in a concrete way, the direct link between perception, thinking and feeling.

By using highly relatable stories, readers of the book are able to form a concrete link between abstract ideas regarding how they perceive and think, and how they feel. Realistic characters deal with real-life circumstances to demonstrate how the same situation and events, perceived and thought about differently, can yield different levels of happiness.

“The Practical Guide to Happiness” educates the reader on the number one challenge to their happiness, the human ego. The reader learns about the power of the human ego that makes constantly holding positive beliefs about the future, in the face of the challenges of ordinary life, almost impossible. It explains how the ego will impede and thwart most people who chart a course to manifest the type of results that experts, in leading positive thinking books, cite. It then teaches the reader how to curb the ego, and to Think Again.

By using the Think Again strategies, the user learns to create happiness now, regardless of less than ideal life circumstances.

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “The Practical Guide to Happiness: If You Don’t Like How You’re Feeling, Think Again”?

Margaret Curley Sanborn: I’ve always been a seeker, wanting to understand ‘why’? I remember as a child being told, “You think too much”. I probably did, but I needed to understand why things were a certain way. Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Margaret Curley Sanborn, author of The Practical Guide to Happiness: If You Don’t Like How You’re Feeling, Think Again →