Field Guide to Happiness : Finding Happiness in Its Natural Habitat

By Barbara Ann Kipfer

'The Field Guide to Happiness' is about self-understanding, transforming personal problems, redoing the plot of your life, expanding creativity, and discovering joy. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159921184X
• ISBN13: 9781599211848
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: The Globe Pequot Publishing Group, Inc.
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Great for mind-mapping ideas

I usually find books like this hokey - at least they don't appeal to me AT ALL. I picked this up for some reason and right away I was attracted to the format. The book has 4 sections: Lists, Mind-Mapping, Journaling and Misc. I'm a list maker so that section is easy - but what really stands out is the Mind-Mapping section. There are so many great ideas for Mind Maps there with suggestions on the branches to include. I could see taking a whole journal and using it for just the section on Mind Maps - maybe as a "work in progress" - going back to the different maps and adding to them. There are about 2 suggestions per page (for list, map or journal) - so you really can pick something out of any part of the book that appeals to you. The book isn't really meant to be read straight through. I find something interesting every time I open it up!

Field Guide Purchase Review

Purchased for my wife - she was happy with the purchase - I am rating the purchase experience not the content of book

Happiness is Making Lists!

I really am enjoying this book -- it's fun and easy to read. If you are into list-making, which many people swear by -- then this book is for you. A feel good recommendation.

A fun book that has helped me find more happiness.

The great Barbara Kipfer strikes again! This is a fun book that has helped me find more happiness in life. It's fun to read, and easy to use, and will help a lot of people "find their bliss." It works for me.

A Dose of Happiness

I caught a dose of happiness reading Barbara Ann Kipfer's idea-filled book,Field Guide to Happiness. It's a smiley face of a book. You just feel good after reading her instructions on how to achieve a state of pure contentment. The book has directions, explanations, suggestions, and creative ideas about writing lists of things that make you happy. A whole section is devoted to "mind-mapping," in which thoughts and feelings are used to work out solutions to problems, with happiness as the goal. Then there is a very useful section titled "Keeping a Journal," as a guide to happiness.But there's much more in its beautifully illustrated pages (by Sandy Hoffman)that will fire your imagination --it has mine-- and give you a real sense on what it means to be happy. I give it 5 stars!