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    <body><![CDATA[The perfect traveling companion for how to make sure you have a daily dose of joy when you're doing the hard work of remaking your life.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This book outlines the ten most powerful, life-enhancing behaviours that Martha Beck has found in years of research and practice. Clearly explained, with thought-provoking case studies from her life design practice, together with her trademark wit, The Joy Diet provides straightforward instructions for incorporating these behaviours into everyday life. By encouraging you to add the ten 'ingredients' of stillness, compassion, truth, desire, creativity, risk, play, treats, gratitude and rest to your daily routine, The Joy Diet shows you how to change the course of your life. In turn they will be empowered to find purpose, overcome obstacles, heal wounds and build dreams.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Martha Beck writes in &quot;O&quot; (Oprah) Magazine and I love her approach. She is a life coach but she uses humor and wonderful examples to illustrate her points. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Some solid advice <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road" title="The Road by Cormac McCarthy">on the road</a> to joy.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I did become more aware of the lack of joy in my life and the need for silence.  Other than that, I don' understand the hype.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great ideas for incorporating joy into your life.  Some will be difficult to do, but may be worth it in the end!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Welcome to <strong>The Joy Diet</strong>, a menu of ten behaviors you can add to your way of living and thinking to enhance every day&#8217;s journey through the unpredictable terrain of your existence. You can add these behaviors gradually and watch your life become steadily more vivid and satisfying. Or you can go on a &#8220;crash Joy Diet&#8221; to help you navigate life&#8217;s emergencies.<br/>The ten menu items are:<br/><br/>&#8226; Nothing: Do nothing for fifteen minutes a day. Stop mindlessly chasing goals and figure out which goals are worth going after.<br/><br/>&#8226; Truth: Create a moment of truth to help you unmask what you&#8217;re hiding&#8212;from others and from yourself.<br/><br/>&#8226; Desire: Identify, articulate, and explore at least one of your heart&#8217;s desires&#8212;and learn how to let yourself want what you want.<br/><br/>&#8226; Creativity: Learn six new ways to develop at least one new idea to help you obtain your heart&#8217;s desire.<br/><br/>&#8226; Risk: Take one baby step toward reaching your goal. The only rule is it has to scare the pants off you.<br/><br/>&#8226; Treats: Give yourself a treat for every risk you take and two treats just because you&#8217;re you. No exceptions. No excuses.<br/><br/>&#8226; Play: Take a moment to remember your real life&#8217;s work and differentiate it from the games you play to achieve it. Then play wholeheartedly.<br/><br/>&#8226; Laughter: Laugh at least thirty times a day. Props encouraged.<br/><br/>&#8226; Connection: Use your Joy Diet skills to interact with someone who matters to you.<br/><br/>&#8226; Feasting: Enjoy at least three square feasts a day, with or without food.<br/><br/>No matter what your long-term goals are, <strong>The Joy Diet</strong>, written with Martha Beck&#8217;s inimitable blend of <br/>wisdom, practical guidance, and humor, will help you achieve the immediate gift of joyful living in the here <br/>and now. Begin your journey today.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a diet book, but a book on how to add more joy to your life. It had some good ideas and good reminders in it.]]></body>
    
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