Living Your Joy: A Practical Guide to Happiness

Even before you get to the meat of the book you'll likely notice the delightful size, perfect for tucking into your bag as you're heading off to who knows where. And when you get the opportunity to open it up there are golden nuggets on every page. There's nothing fake or sugary about the advice given and Suzanne avoids sounding like a re-run of cheerleader camp or wearer of rose-colored glasses. Her warm conversational style and easy delivery make the material in the book an encouraging gift to the reader. And both author and content contributed to its spot on my recomended reading at http://susanreynolds.blogs.com/ ? 2006 Susan Reynolds

As an artist/engineer/music composer, I found this book very helpful in easing some of the things that I have on becoming Joyful...is to follow the dream...yet there is so much that I am trying to "protect". This book is an all round words of wisdom and the author seems to know how to express what my difficulties are and what to do about it. I am not so alone and it is great that she followed her dream to fruition. She made it possible for herself to share her gifts, in return, help us to share our dreams.

Do you thirst to turn your dreams into reality? Is your heart crying to release the creative ability inside of you but you just are not aware of how to begin? If your answer is yes to these questions "Living Your Joy" is the book for you.Suzanne Falter-Barns takes a hard look at what is stopping us from forging forward to make our dreams a reality, you might not like what you find there.She points out how we must make the decision to work to remove the road blocks that are stopping our dream, be it lack of time, lack of finances, or any of the numerous excuses we use that hinder us.Do you realize what clutter can do to you emotionally or what part it can play in hindering you from moving ahead? Interesting!Ouch! The finger points inward as perhaps our own errors are exposed! Quite an eye-opener!Take heart however, the author gives you ways to overcome these road blocks and a listing of resources are available for your use, given after most chapters that will aid you in your quest to succeed. Bravo!The book is chock full of pointers, ideas and down to earth advice that you can impart in your own life to help bring your dream to fulfillment. All in all a real character building book that will make you take a good look at why you have not succeeded with your dream and how you can make it a reality.

One of the most exceptionally valuable aspects of this book is its clear, concise, simple to follow guidelines for how to move beyond TALKING about how SOMEDAY you will live your joy..... it goes into LIVING your joy right here right now by following this step and that step and the other step... clearly, concisely AND ALSO with signature Suzanne Falter-Barnes style.Its kind of like getting down to the brass tacks of the situation... actually getting the fingers-- the palms -- the fists into the fingerpaints and just going for it in whatever way you can right here right now and then getting up tomorrow and doing the same thing so that in two weeks, two months, two years from now you will be LIVING your joy... rather than two weeks, two months, two years you would have been still TALKING about someday.....

Suzanne Falter-Barns has hit another home-run with her newest book, "Living Your Joy: A Practical Guide to Happiness". I loved her first book, "How Much Joy Can You Stand", so much that it spurred me to subscribe to her newsletter and take several courses from her. "Living Your Joy" is a perfect follow-up book in that it shows us the "How-To" possibilities that many "living-your-dream" type books leave out. After having read "Living Your Dream" I know not only that it's possible, but there are concrete steps I can take towards making my dreams reality. Thank you, Suzanne. Don't stop writing books and creating courses - we dreamers need you!