14,000 Things to Be Happy About.: Newly Revised and Updated Paperback – Illustrated, October 21, 2014

Love this for days I’m feeling down and unmotivated, helps me think about the good times.

This is my favorite gift! I like it for graduates but I also got it for my boyfriend’s sister the Christmas I was still getting to know her. Really easy sticking stuffer/ feel good gift

A great gift for birthdays, anniversaries. Listing is varied; I have my friends read thru and annotate with their initials the items that bring them joy. I've done this in my copy of the book since the 90's.

I loved this book! I bought them for my coworkers for Christmas. Everyone enjoyed them.

If I had bought this book a year ago, I would have hated it. Probably because I didn't have anything in my life to be particularly unhappy about and this is just a bunch of random things that some random person I don't know finds interesting or appealing or enticing.But then my mom passed away about 6 months ago, out of the blue. After that, the things that had made me happy before didn't seem to matter or to be able to make me happy anymore. It put things into perspective. Without her, I didn't know how to not just be completely sad.I found and ordered this book on a whim, just reaching out for anything that might be able to make things a little better.I took the first blank page and actually wrote out why I needed help being happy and what I was feeling and going through. Then, each night before bed, I made myself read about 10 "things to be happy about." And I made myself write my own 10 things to be happy about right next to them, in the margins. I made myself do it every single night. And through my tears, I did find 10 things to be happy about each night, even if it was hard to get into that mindset. It helped me end my day on a positive note and to go to sleep thinking about things that were a little brighter and a little lighter.I was still sad (and still am, and part of me will always be), but it helped me to slow down, stop for a minute, and focus on what I did and do still have to be happy about in my life.Honestly, the 14,000 things to be happy about could have said anything. S'mores. Rainbows. The color orange. Extra long hugs. Slurping spaghetti noodles. It didn't matter to me. But the book in general - the idea and theme of it - was what helped me. I just needed to remind myself of what amazing people I still have around me and of the beautiful things in the world - which also made me remind myself of how big the world is and how I'm not alone in going through this. And not only do I feel a little happier now, but I have also identified potential changes in my life that might make me happier and I'm taking risks and making those changes to reach for that happiness. And I identified things in my life that didn't make me as happy as they should and removed myself from them (or am working to do so).This book is just about reminding yourself of why you should be happy, because there really is so much to be appreciative of. And it did a great job of that for me.

My family recently went through a tragic loss. While this book can not change or erase that lose and can never replace the life that we miss so dearly, it has helped one of the members of my family to appreciate some of the smaller things in life more and really helped her cope with the situation a lot. It is a very simplistic idea, one that anybody could do themselves if they opened up a word processor and started listing things that made them happy, but it is nice to be able to have such a list without literally having to sit at a word processor for however long it takes to type out FOURTEEN THOUSAND (14,000) of them their self! It is a nice, light read that you can skip around through and read over a long time to help raise your spirits a little bit.Excellent present idea if you know somebody who is struggling with some deep, heavy, difficult things in life.

I ordered this for me but like it so much I will be ordering some as gifts. I read a little at a time. A lot of fun and interesting things to be happy about. Some of them make me laugh out loud!

It’s a cute little book, but honestly I think if you would take 2 minutes a day to jot down your own thoughts of what makes you happy or what you’d like to do, see, or be...it would be even better.It’s a long list of thoughts and dreams. Better to make your own Bucketlist of happiness than reading someone else’s.