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    Simply Happy Every Day
    Simply Happy Every Day
    Simply Happy Every Day
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    Simply Happy Every Day

    By Barb Rogers

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    Living in a garage, so poor she could barely feed her dog, and rapidly hitting bottom, author Barb Rogers was desperate to just try anything. She combated and overcame her situation by prayer, choosing to be happy, and improving the flow of chi in her life. And the results were nothing short of dramatic. In these three books, part of the Just Try This series, Rogers shares the simple methods that helped her triumph over incredible adversity. These books are down-to-earth and easy to use. Readers can incorporate Rogers’ wisdom and exercises into their lives every day, and they can experience the same dramatic improvements that she did. Simply Happy Every Day shares Barb Rogers’ easy system for being happy. It’s simple: we accept happiness by realizing what makes us happy and always opting for the road that brings happiness. Then readers learn how to take the second step into happiness: "When we walk in God’s light," writes Rogers, "all things are possible . . . I believe no matter how bad a situation seems, it will be for the best. I stay in my business and leave God to his. And in doing these things, I know joy . . . that happiness that lives deep within cannot be taken, only given up willingly. The choice is mine." Including stories from her own life and others, Simply Happy Every Day is a tribute to the power of surrendering to happiness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel
    Release dateDec 22, 2004
    ISBN9781609250881
    Simply Happy Every Day
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    Barb Rogers

    Barb Rogers became a professional costume designer after beginning her journey of recovery. She is the founder of Broadway Bazaar Costumes, and author of three books about costuming. She's the author of Keep It Simple & Sane: Freeing Yourself from Addictive Thinking, TwentyFive Words and Clutter Junkie No More. Barb passed away in 2011.

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      Simply Happy Every Day - Barb Rogers

         Introduction

      It was an unseasonably warm fall afternoon in Prescott, Arizona, as I sat in the outer office waiting for my brother to finish his dental appointment. Between the metal slats of the blinds, the beauty of the mountains, the tall pines, and the people walking by held my attention. A school bus pulled up to the corner. I watched the children get off in small groups, laughing, talking, heading in all directions.

      Three young boys, who looked about eight or ten years old, stopped in the parking lot just outside the window. After tossing their backpacks onto the sidewalk, one boy pulled a beanbag ball out of his pocket. It wasn't as big as a tennis ball, and it didn't bounce, so I was fascinated, wondering what they would do with it. He tossed it. Another boy attempted to keep it in the air by using his knees and feet. When he missed, they would laugh, and another would attempt the feat.

      For half an hour I observed the three at play, faces flushed, laughing so hard sometimes they stumbled into each other. I caught myself laughing out loud. And that's when it hit me.

      Even those of us who didn't have a particularly good childhood had wonderful moments such as these. I thought of mine. Just after dark, catching fireflies with my brother, placing them in a jar—in awe of the little creatures that could light up the darkness—and then letting them go and watching them scatter like tiny stars in the night. The warm summer days at the river, when we would swing out on a rope and drop into the cold, muddy water. Taking a nap on an old porch swing tied between two trees, swinging back and forth until my eyelids drooped. My heart pounding so loud I could hear it when I learned to water ski, rode my first horse, met someone new and exciting, and accepted my first kiss.

      Like all children, during those special moments I was fearless, living in the moment, not thinking about anything but that wonderful feeling and holding onto it as long as I could. But, as with all things, the moment would pass and it was time to go back to the reality that was my life, back to the anger and confusion, back to a school where I didn't fit in, back to trying to be what I thought others wanted me to be. As hard as I tried, it was never enough. I was unhappy.

      Sitting in the dentist's office, I wondered about the three boys as they left the parking lot. What would they be going home to? Were they happy or were they simply experiencing a moment—an awesome moment in which there are no problems and no tomorrows, only unleashed laughter and the complete freedom to be who they are? Like me, they'd experienced the simple pleasure of being happy.

      It took me many years and a lot of different life experiences to understand that I'd been chasing the feeling I'd had during those happy moments. I did all manner of things in an attempt to recapture that feeling. But the more desperate I became—the faster I pursued, the harder I tried—the shorter the moments became, until they were no more. I didn't think I would ever be happy again.

      Then God tossed me a beanbag ball. Through a series of seemingly tragic events, by listening to others who had been unhappy and yet found happiness, I stopped chasing that elusive feeling and understood that happiness had been a part of me all along. All I had to do was figure out how to tap into it.

      Being simply happy is a matter of changing perspectives, attitudes, and preconceived ideas about ourselves, others, and life. I would like to share with you what I've discovered that has made me one of the happiest people I know.

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      Stop, Look, and Listen

      For years people have talked about, written about, discussed the inner child. After studying it in psychology classes and listening to other people's ideas on the subject, I came to the conclusion the inner child is who we really are.

      What happens to us that makes us push who we really are down so deep, sometimes we lose ourselves? To my mind, it comes down to labels and expectations. It begins when we're born: It's a girl or It's a boy is clearly written on the announcement, on cigars, on balloons. And so it begins, the different expectations for boys and girls, even to

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