Review: The Happiness Animal by Will Jelbert

After myth-busting about what makes us happy, Will Jelbert reveals short exercises for the five happiness muscles. Build you're happy, muscle by muscles a little at a time with as little effort as offering a stranger a tissue, to radically honest resenting and appreciating, to creating a short statement to your life purpose. Backed by research from the world's leading psychologist, this is a candid roadmap to a better life now. The five muscles that make your happiness is honesty, kindness, tolerance, awareness, and courage. Mr. Jelbert breaks down the myths is that we believe makes us happy such as possessions, money, time or a change of location to name a few and shows you a new way to think. He points out the things you think will make you happy change all the time, but that you will discover that what does make you happy is universally consistent. Will Jelbert has this wonderful quote "The Shift is about to fit the Fan." He points out there are limits to things you can do but not limits on how much you can be you. He points out that happiness is all about you and not anything external. How the biggest things that keep us from being happy is our own minds and ego. That we have to be our authentic self. He points out that all reasonable demands are that we live according to our own nature.


I found The Happiness Animals by Will Jelbert to be a very enlightening book. His thorough research and practices allow anyone to grow their own happiness muscle. The graphics and layout allow it to be used for personal use and you can also add this to your own small group. The little tidbits of animal advice are simple but insightful mini thoughts that tie in the advice and practices from the parts of the happiness muscles. I think my favorite is "Breathing brings you back. Breath is a pain reliever." The research that Will Jelbert put into the book did not take away from it but instead gave it creditability to his ideas and shows how much the topic means to him personally.
The Happiness Animal by Will Jelbert