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Why don’t we capitalize on something we all possess? Because even though most of us believe in the health benefits of positive attitudes and behaviors, we haven’t had a clear roadmap to access them.

Rick Foster and Greg Hicks, national best-selling authors of How We Choose to Be Happy, have spent over a decade studying happiness and its relationship to health through their research with The Mayo Clinic and hundreds of interviews. Along with Jen Seda, MD, a founding member of Mayo’s Department of Integrative Medicine, Rick and Greg present their revolutionary system of 9 choices in Happiness & Health. The first practical guide to how anyone can create the positive emotions medically proven to make you healthier, they are truly breaking ground.

Having trained over 10,000 doctors, nurses, patients, and people from all walks of life, they’ve discovered that, when you follow the 9 choices, you live in a state they call “Brilliant Health.” Brilliant Health is a deep feeling of vitality, wellbeing, and a sense that you’ve achieved the highest possible quality of life. You have a healthier body down to the cellular level, you have better brain function, you recover faster from illness and injury, your organ systems work better, and you can even look forward to a longer, and definitely better life.

From this unique and in-depth research, they developed their acclaimed model of nine choices — now considered by scientific researchers to be a groundbreaking roadmap of how people create happiness — a new key to the mind-body connection.

Regardless of your genetic makeup, personality, or background, you can learn to make these choices. Insightful, intimate, and inspiring, this book will show you, in practical terms, how to harness the power of your intentions, “recast” stress and problems, live authentically — and ultimately join the ranks of extremely happy people.

Good news! With a determination to reduce the personal toll on leaders, I have developed a revolutionary way to lead which has shown thousands how to thrive in the face of the real LeaderShock culprit — an outdated worldwide business culture that has us managing from one crisis to the next, fighting forces beyond our control and plagued with too much to do.

Unlike other leadership solutions which prescribe generic traits and competencies, my program offers a radically different solution: a practical roadmap of eight behavioral rules you can use regardless of your personality, experience level, organizational culture, gender or age. Mix all eight rules together and something amazing happens: all those outside forces you can’t control, no longer control you. You become the masterful and invigorated leader you want to be.

Whether you lead a three-person team or a multinational conglomerate, you will learn how to:

• Activate and express “Intentions” to create extraordinary relationships and get the outcomes you really want.
• Use “Recasting” — a surprising and acutely analytical new way to convert stress and problems into strength.
• Create a uniquely accountable and truth-driven culture that excites and motivate your people.
• Become proactive and forceful without overpowering others.

This new program now gives you the choice to move into today’s new leadership and thrive!

When Frannie gives us The Martha, an old and dilapidated rowboat, we decide to give her a total makeover. But once she’s beautiful again, each of our eccentric houseboat neighbors claim her as their own. In the wink of an eye Martha becomes the object of everyone’s affection and the squabbling begins. When persnickety Jeanette and her poodle sidekick, Lilly, row out for their daily tanning sessions, Darnell demands to use Martha to water his floating begonia garden. Just when Hans rows one of his famous apple strudels over to the Harbormaster, Mr. and Mrs. Rivera decide this is the perfect time to teach their grandchildren how to paddle.

Then one dark day The Martha disappears from the Marina under mysterious circumstances.

Find out what happens to us all in this whimsical and enchanting fable about false blame, ownership, the power of community, and, finally, happiness.