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Examines the life-enhancing benefits of compassion, generosity, kindness, and caring, establishing a link between doing good and physical health, longevity, well-being, and life-satisfaction, and outlining a personalized plan for creating a more generouslife.

The Exciting New Research that Proves the Link Between Doing Good and Living a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life

Why Good Things Happen to Good People

Lacy W

This review is part of my #MomMondays bi weekly post on my blog! Check out my blog to read more! 

tw: use of word n**ger

I wonder if Mom is trying to tell me something by giving me all these self help books to read?? LOL! Anyway, as far as self help books go, this was alright if a little dry. It has some very good ideas and things that we should all practice but there were a couple of things that really bothered me. 

This book is all about giving and how it is good for the soul. Giving really is! I work with individuals with dementia and while it can be very stressful, it is also incredibly rewarding. I have done volunteer work in the past with Girl Scouts and I always felt better about doing it. Now you don't have to do the things I do to give. Checking in on a neighbor or writing a thank you card are some small but excellent ways to give. 

There were two ideas in this book that resonated with me deeply. One was the chapter of forgiveness. I am known to hold grudges and I can be very cold to those that hurt my loved ones regardless if they forgave that person or not. It's a flaw I know I have and am trying to work on. This book talks a lot about forgiveness and how it can relieve the pressure you feel from hold the grudge. 

The second theme that resonated with me was loyalty. I am know for being unfailing loyal. If you gain my loyalty, you essentially have it for life (until you do something to do lose it).

So there were two things I was not a fan of in this book. One was the negative connotations towards video games. I am an avid gamer so naturally I support games. I believe they are incredibly beneficial and connect people in fantastic ways. I met one of my dearest friends this way, through the power of video games. It's the way we communicate and I love every minute of it. So to have a couple authors think upon gaming in a negative way didn't sit right with me at all. 

The other negative is the religious connotations. This book was centered somewhat heavily on God and having them help you in giving or being selfless, things like that. Now this maybe for some people but I didn't much care of it.

Overall, this was good. I can definitely see where I can improve on my giving and I will certainly try to use some of what I read in this book in everyday life. However there were some negative that for me, didn't sit well. But if you can look past them, this it the book for you!

Why Good Things Happen to Good People The Exciting New Research that Proves the Link Between Doing Good and Living a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life

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