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Lynda Wallace

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http://lyndawallace.com/

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Psychology, Self Help

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Lynda Wallace is the author of the #1 Amazon Self-Help Best-Seller A SHORT COURSE IN HAPPINESS: PRACTICAL STEPS TO A HAPPIER LIFE. She's also a Certified Positive Psychology Coach who works with clients who are experiencing changes or pursuing goals in their personal or professional lives and want to make the next chapter of their lives the best yet. Lynda meets with clients both in-person and by phone or video.

Before her own career change, Lynda was a longtime executive with Johnson & Johnson, where she was responsible for a highly successful billion-dollar portfolio of global businesses including Band-Aids, Neosporin, and Purell. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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"What Is Happiness?" And Other Questions of the Week

This week I was interviewed by a number of journalists who are writing articles about my book, A Short Course in Happiness: Practical Steps to a Happier Life. They asked some great questions that encouraged me to distill the lessons of the research into the briefest, clearest responses I could come up with.

Here are a few of their best questions, along with my responses.

Q: What is happiness?

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Published on April 27, 2013 11:15

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Lynda’s Quotes

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

tags: barriers, challenges, failure, failures, inspirational, perseverance

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“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: adversity, character, failure, perseverance

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“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: spirituality

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“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson