The Happy Hour Effect: Twelve Secrets to Minimize Stress and Maximize Life

by Kristen K. Brown

Overview

The Happy Hour Effect: Twelve Secrets to Minimize Stress and Maximize Life, by bestselling and award-winning author Kristen K. Brown, provides easy, fun, and powerful solutions to minimize your stress and maximize your life. Kristen's voice is inspiring, motivating, witty, funny, and down to earth, and her book provides specific and actionable steps to stress less now. It isn't hard. It isn't confusing. It's a simple, straightforward, fun approach to stress relief. Each chapter includes inspiring quotes, the timing to implement each secret, the level of effort it will take, the expected results, and QR codes and links to supporting materials online that will make the respective chapter come to life. Also included are sidebars with expert interviews, anecdotes, statistics, and other visual content to reinforce the written words on each page. The QR codes and links connect to worksheets, videos, meditations, how-to tips, and other resources that will help you move forward on your stress management journey. The Happy Hour Effect is a comprehensive guide to help you live a healthier, happier, and less stressed life—quickly and easily.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936636105
Publisher:	Goodman Beck Publishing
Publication date:	11/12/2012
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kristen K. Brown, The Queen of Stress Relief, is a coach, bestselling and award-winning author, webTV host, speaker, and the founder of Happy Hour Effect LLC and WidowMommy.com. She has her master's certificate in integral theory, is a certified holistic health coach, and is a fifteen-year corporate America veteran. Her debut memoir, The Best Worst Thing, was about her journey to a new life after the unexpected death of her husband from a heart attack at the age of thirty when their daughter was just an infant. The Happy Hour Effect is Kristen's highly anticipated second release. Kristen has won the Royal Dragonfly Book Award, Readers' Favorite Book Award, SWIBA Award for Author of the Year, and has been nominated for two American Business Awards and two International Women in Business Awards. She has been featured on television, radio, print, and online, including CBS, Fox, NBC, ABC, Working Mother, CNN.com, and US Weekly. Kristen enjoys gardening, meditation, cooking, yoga, travel, reading, and all things self-improvement focused. Kristen has traveled the world for both business and pleasure and enjoys learning about new cultures. She is a member of Women of Words, The Loft Literary Center, Film Independent, Femfessionals, and a volunteer for the American Heart Association. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her young daughter, and she will do almost anything for bacon.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Stress Is Inevitable, So Why Should I Care? 5

Getting Started 12

The Happy Hour Effect Life Map 18

I Challenges 25

Secret #1 Quit Your Bitchin 27

Secret #2 Check, Check, aaaand Check 45

II Work & Money 63

Secret #3 I Love My Job (sarcastic laugh) 65

Secret #4 Money, Money, Money 84

III Core Life 97

Secret #5 Family Matters 98

Secret #6 Operation Body 109

Secret #7 Sleep & Sex for Less Stress 123

IV Hobbies & Commitments 137

Secret #8 Stress and the Uglies 139

Secret #9 Ohm Is for Everyone 154

Secret #10 Poop, Hair, and Feedings (sounds stressful) 173

V Dreams 181

Secret #11 Me-Time for Less Stress 182

Secret #12 Cross It Off the Bucket List 194

Putting It All Together 266

Acknowledgments 211

Resources 212

About the Author 213