From Crappy to Happy: Transforming Your Life from Miserable to Pleasurable in Six Weeks

FROM CRAPPY TO HAPPY

Transforming Your Life From Miserable

To Pleasurable In Six Weeks

By Samantha Brighton

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

1. Living In The Craptrap

2. Fleeing Craptrap Island

3. The 7 Principles That Pave The Way To Happy

4. Your Roadmap To Happy

5. Choosing Your Mode Of Transport: Rollercoasters And Range Rovers

6. Vehicle Maintenance

7. The Knowledge Seeker

8. Travelling Light

9. Cul De Sacs, Road Blocks And Route Diversions

10. Hitting The Ditch: Calling Roadside Emergency Services

11. Traffic Control: Road Rage, Tail Gating, And Stolen Cars

12. Destination: Happy

Conclusion

FOREWORD

"People are about as happy as they make up their minds to me"

– Abraham Lincoln.

Let me tell you a story.

Last year, a quadruple whammy of life blunders left me at the rockiest edge of rock bottom. Laid off from my job, I sat in my pajamas for a month, milking my position as poor, rejected one to the extent where one day, my boyfriend decided to flee. Rather than take this as a sign that my energy sapping ways weren't doing me any favors, I decided to sink even further into the well of self pity, and adopt a gloomy disposition that would have members of The Addams Family telling me to lighten up. A week later, my landlord told me he was selling, and I would need to be out within two months. As if to mark the occasion, my cat decided to cross the road minus observing the red light, winning herself a one way trip to feline heaven. I was gutted. The Universe hates me! Why me? Everything is against me, I proclaimed, wallowing in an ice cream guzzling cess pit that left my body 20% flesh and blood, 80% Haagen Dazs.

It took a well meaning, if rather