Caroline Adams Miller

Michael B. Frisch

Designed to help you understand how to set and achieve clear-cut goals while also learning how and why this process can contribute to greater contentment.

The Ultimate Life List Guide

Creating Your Best Life

“A fascinating book that connects the research on goal-setting with the new science of positive psychology”—redesigned and reissued with a new introduction (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Comprehensive and evidence-based, Creating Your Best Life breaks new ground in revealing how happiness and success are interconnected. With dozens of interactive exercises and quizzes, it helps readers identify their most cherished needs, ambitions, and wishes so they can take control of their environment and maximize their chances of success. The authors’ unique “life list coaching” explains, step by step, how to set goals in 16 key areas—including love relationships, family, health, work, self-esteem, friendship, money, problem-solving, and creativity—that inspire people to live their lives more consciously, productively, and joyfully. “Caroline Miller brings together positive psychology research and hands-on exercises into a unique mix, a manual for defining one’s life goals and making strides toward achieving them.” —Deepak Chopra “A+ for the authors’ ability to integrate science with a practical application for the general public. One of the best of its kind.” —Library Journal “This powerful book brings together the latest scientific research on goal setting and well-being and presents it in an engaging way anyone can follow to create a better life.” —James Pawelski, PhD, Director of Education and Senior Scholar, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania

Note: Book no longer includes a CD-ROM, but the files areavailable online for download for both book and ebook purchasers atwww.wiley.com/go/frisch "This book defines an approach to well-being and positivepsychology, that is state-of-the-art, evidence-based, empiricallyvalidated, and an outstanding guide for anyone interested inlearning about the practice of positive psychology orwell-being." —Ed Diener, the world authority on happiness from theUniversity of Illinois and President of the International PositivePsychology Association. Endorsed by Christopher Peterson of the University of Michiganand taught in Marty Seligman's Masters in Applied PositivePsychology (MAPP) Program at the University of Pennsylvania, thisbook teaches a simple, step-by-step method for putting the fieldsof well-being and positive psychology into practice. Itis a "one-stop shopping" manual with everything you need in onebook and with one approach. This approach to greater happiness, meaning, and success is“evidence-based” and empirically validated. Ithas been successfully tested in three randomized controlled trials,including two NIH-grant funded trials conducted by James R.Rodrigue and his colleagues at Beth Israel and Harvard MedicalCenters in Boston. Quality of Life Therapy also known as Quality of Life Therapyand Coaching or QOLTC is designed for use by therapists,coaches, organizational change-agents/consultants, and all professionals who work to improve peoples' well-being. Manylaypersons and clients have found the book useful as well. This book explains the "Sweet 16" Recipe for Joy and Success,along with validated interventions for each: 1. Basic Needs or Wealths: Health, Money,Goals-and-Values/Spiritual Life, Self-Esteem 2. Relationships: Love, Friends, Relatives, and Children 3. Occupations-Avocations: Work and Retirement Pursuits, Play,Helping-Service, Learning, Creativity 4. Surroundings: Home, Neighborhood, Community

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