Crappy to Happy: Small Steps to Big Happiness NOW!

by Randy Peyser

What if your happiness has nothing to do with the outer circumstances of your life? What if it was something you just started feeling more and more in each moment regardless of your daily drama?" Author and performer Randy Peyser poses these questions in her first book, Crappy to Happy. With bold storytelling, transformative humor, and her signature "comic interventions", Peyser offers a selection of personal stories about how she created greater happiness in her own life. She shares clues for achieving a place of authenticity, "a happier Now." Arranged in five parts, Crappy to Happy helps us learn to be true to ourselves, manage life's challenges, heal relationships, develop a spiritual life, and give to others. Each story ends with a zinger of a quote, plus pages of numbered steps that encourage action or introspection. Learn how to be silly, cultivate personal integrity, transform from victim to victor, be courageous and outrageous. And much more, • The New Age Flake Test • If You Hate Someone, Imagine They Are an Angel • God is a Potato

Genres: Nonfiction

242 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

Reviews

[M.M. Hudson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have read a few self-help books in my years of reading and I must say, this is one of the most humorous I have ever read.

Randy (who is a woman) writes in five major sections breaking each section into several chapters. Each chapter begins with a "story" that is often humorous but very real.

After the story, she will summarize it by telling the reader exactly how to take steps to make life happier right now, this very minute.

At the end of the book, she essentially summarizes each of the steps quickly so that they are once again fresh in the mind.

I liked the humor this author had which made what could have been another self-help boredom into something wanted to be read again and again. She was real with her stories and you truly felt like you understood and wanted to return the book to her to tell her, "read this!"

Overall a good book which is why I gave it 4 stars.

Disclosure: I purchased a copy of this book for my own collections. The views here are 100% my own and may differ from yours. ~Michelle aka Naila Moon

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

"A Course in Miracles" lite or another take on "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten". It's cute, with an offbeat approach, but the knowledge is relevant. Apply the Golden Rule and don't forget to love yourself. If you're feeling bad and don't have much time to improve your life or your outlook, reading this book may help.

[Sharon Newkirk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy & Fun Read! Uplifting way to view life & the trials of everyday life.

It was written by a High School classmate. Randy writes the way she speaks & I could hear her voice as I read the book.

Great job Randy Peyser!!

[Autumn Harris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loved this book! Teaches a lot of really great life lessons. The only thing I didn't like was all the religious stuff but other than that, amazing!