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Lauren Cook

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Nonfiction, Self Help

Influences

Gretchen Rubin

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Happiness is an essential part of my life and it’s my goal to add more of it to your life as well. We all say we want to be happy—after all, who wakes up and says they don’t want to be happy? But I know it can be easier said than done. My goal is to help you find joy even on your most challenging days so that happiness isn’t just for Friday nights, the first day of summer, or the holiday season. You can have happiness throughout the year if you’re willing to make happiness a habit and not just as something to hope for next week, next month, or next year. It’s time to stop postponing your joy and I’m here to help you get started!

A lot of people ask me how my journey to happiness began. It all started when I read Gretchen Rubin’s The Happines Happiness is an essential part of my life and it’s my goal to add more of it to your life as well. We all say we want to be happy—after all, who wakes up and says they don’t want to be happy? But I know it can be easier said than done. My goal is to help you find joy even on your most challenging days so that happiness isn’t just for Friday nights, the first day of summer, or the holiday season. You can have happiness throughout the year if you’re willing to make happiness a habit and not just as something to hope for next week, next month, or next year. It’s time to stop postponing your joy and I’m here to help you get started!

A lot of people ask me how my journey to happiness began. It all started when I read Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project—her book inspired me, motivated me—invigorated me. I wrote to Gretchen and asked if she wanted to write a teen edition of The Happiness Project with me. It wasn’t long before I heard from Gretchen and she politely declined my offer. So I thought, “That’s okay. I’ll write my own book.” Just because she told me “no” didn’t mean that I had to tell myself that. And so began my journey interviewing hundreds of middle school, high school, and college students asking them, “What is it that actually makes you happy?” This question was so crucial for me because I felt like no one was asking it.

What I found was enlightening. The Millennial Generation is more optimistic, philanthropically minded, and internationally focused than any other generation. But we’re also guilty of wishing our lives away. We often say, “I’ll be happy when I can finally graduate,” or “I just want to finish this semester.” But these are incredible years! Why hope for them to pass by quickly? Happiness is something for the here and now and it’s my mission to bring positivity into the present.

If you think you’ll be happy when your life is finally perfect—when you get into your dream school, you’re making a six figure salary and you have the golden retriever to match, you’ll likely go a whole lifetime looking for something that doesn’t exist. Happiness is about loving an imperfect life for all of its little splendors and failures. My goal is to help you get there—so that you can find gratitude in the good and bad days and find the blessings in between. ...more

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Lauren Cook's Blog

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Your Five Seconds of Courage

When given opportunities to shine, I see so many people stepping back. Think about this in your own life recently. Were you given an opportunity to excel and you balked at the chance? Maybe someone approached you to speak on a topic you’re passionate about or someone asked you out on a date. Maybe someone invited you to an interview or asked you to be the lead on a project at work. Did you minimiz

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	I Love Shopping 4.12 avg rating — 57 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No me da la vida: Una guía para manejar la ansiedad para milenials, centenials y más allá by Lauren Cook, Juan Pascual Martínez Fernández (translator) 2.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Every idea I get is an idea for someone else. My ideas are never for me. It is just the purpose of my thoughts, for someone else. I know because I will think of something to do or say and I will think, 'hmmm that would be really cool if someone else did that. I still don't know what I will do though. Not sure what to do with that idea or what to do now.' Maybe one day I will think of an idea for me”
― Lauren Cook

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Lauren Cook’s Followers (7)

Lauren Cook

35 postsLauren Cook's Blog

Your Five Seconds of Courage

Combine EditionsLauren Cook’s books

35 posts
Lauren Cook's Blog

Combine Editions
Lauren Cook’s books