The Flourish Handbook: How To Achieve Happiness With Staying Power, Boost Your Well-Being, Enjoy Your Life More and Reach Your Potential. Your journey to a more enjoyable and fulfilling life begins here. Some people just cope and enjoy life, no matter what it throws at them. They have this innate ability to shrug off adversity. They deal with tragedies and setbacks with dignity and seize each opportunity. They squeeze every ounce of enjoyment out of every single moment and have an amazing support network. Instead of complaining they show gratitude, instead of dwelling on the past they focus on the present. Such people love their work and achieve balance between that work and living life itself. They fill their life with engaging activities and strive to achieve their goals, remembering to enjoy the journey en route. They determinedly pursue their purpose and accomplish whatever they set out to do. These people are flourishers; they know how to flourish rather than languish. They live lives which maximise the five pillars of well-being as established by the world's best positive psychologists: positive emotion, engagement, supportive relationships, meaningful purpose, and achievement. You are just a few pages from becoming one of those confident, life-affirming flourishers who make the most of this one life. The problem is, it can be difficult to move from the written word to the DOING bit. One day, best-selling author, business owner and free-range worker, Cheryl Rickman thought to herself, "If only there was a book which literally equipped people with the tools they needed to boost their well-being, enjoy their life more, cope with adversity, get more done and reach their potential; a book packed with monthly tasks, to-do lists, a 100 flourishing activities checklist and an ULTIMATE FLOURISHING WEEKLY PLANNER into which stuff can be scheduled to enable flourishing on a daily basis, starting today!" But there wasn't. So she wrote it. The Flourish Handbook is a compelling and easy-to-digest practical guide - a friendly handbook on how to flourish. Drawing on extensive research and her own methods of coping with adversity and tragedy, achieving dreams, and enjoying life, Cheryl Rickman gives you a workbook about much more than merely achieving happiness. Learn how to: *Become more resilient. *Fit more engaging and enjoyable activities into your daily life. *Find your true purpose and play to your strengths. *Improve your relationships. *Achieve balance between life and work. *Develop and sustain gratitude. *Respond positively to others and events. *Declutter and enhance your environment and mind power. *Enjoy life more. Flourishing is about more than simply feeling good; it's about pursuing and experiencing a better life; it's about building and optimising well-being. Once you know which elements make up well-being and focus on those areas, rather than focusing merely on happiness alone, you can live a rich, enjoyable and meaningful life with a high level of sustained well-being. This handbook guides you through that process and takes you on an illuminating and rewarding journey where you will boost your well-being month by month over the course of one year.
About the Author: Cheryl Rickman has been writing best-selling books on business for eight years. But recently, her purpose in life shifted when she founded her third business, WiBBLE (Women in Business: Brilliant Local Enterprises) a support network for self-employed women. Then, Cheryl's writing journey ventured onto a different path as she noticed how many brilliant women running their own enterprises were lacking in confidence and self-belief. Many were stressed about the lack of time they had to enjoy life, despite the flexibility of being self-employed. So Cheryl's purpose developed into inspring, informing and empowering people, not just in business, but in life: to boost people's confidence and well-being and flourish. What sets Cheryl apart from many writers in her field is that she has experience of running her own businesses; has experienced adversity and tragedy having lost both her parents, her father just a couple of months before this book came to print. She has long followed her dreams, played to her strengths and pursued her purpose. She started her first internet business, aged 25 which she sold in 2005 to focus on writing. Additionally, together with her partner, Cheryl co-founded ilikemusic.com in 2000. During her time as Editor, Cheryl spent seven years interviewing popstars and developing the business, living her dream. Indeed, from popstar Katie Melua to rapper 50 Cent; from a death row prisoner to multi-millionaire business leaders, Cheryl has interviewed a variety of incredible people with extraordinary stories to tell. Cheryl's first book, The Small Business Start-Up Workbook went straight to number one in the Start-Ups category on Amazon in 2005. It has remained in the top ten of the best-seller charts ever since. Dame Anita Roddick kindly wrote the Foreword to that book. Since then Cheryl has ghostwritten a number of best-selling books, including Sunday Times Bestseller, Tycoon, for Peter Jones of BBC Dragons' Den fame, and Born Global by Neal Gandhi of Quickstart Global. She contributed to 1000 CEOs and helped Guy Rigby of Smith & Williamson to write From Vision To Exit: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Building and Selling a Business. Her recent book, The Digital Business Start-Up Workbook has a Foreword written by the UK's Digital Champion, Martha Lane Fox. Today, alongside writing books, Cheryl runs WiBBLE & Flourish, taking groups on winter seaside weekend retreats. Cheryl lives in Southern England with her husband and their daughter.