M J Ryan: 69 books
This Year I Will...
How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Learn the secret to making changes that stick
Every so often people get inspired (again!) to lose weight, get organized, start saving, or stop worrying –but a few months later they give up, frustrated. It doesn’t have to be that way. In This Year I Wil . . .l, bestselling author M.J. Ryan...
Trusting Yourself
Growing Your Self-Awareness, Self-Confidence, and Self-Reliance
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Who Would I Be, What Would I Do, If I Trusted Myself . . .
In her warm and inimitable way M.J. Ryan guides us to look at our lives from a different perspective. To imagine what they would be like if we practiced an attitude of self-trust, if we received the gifts trusting ourselves might give us.
In...
The Power of Patience
How This Old-Fashioned Virtue Can Improve Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
". . .proves that the ability to be patient is the mark of wisdom as well as the cause for happiness, and offers straightforward, believable instructions for developing that ability." —Sylvia Boorstein, author of Happiness Is an Inside Job
It has become the norm in our everyday...
Radical Generosity
Unlock the Transformative Power of Giving
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Gratitude and generosity go hand in hand--the more we appreciate our lives, the more we want to give to others. In Radical Generosity, M. J. Ryan provides tools for expressing thanks. In the best-selling Attitudes of Gratitude, she taught us the inner work of realizing the many blessings we take for...
by M. J. Ryan
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 7, 2012
O trabalho se avoluma numa velocidade assustadora. A agitação das grandes cidades nos deixa exasperados. O telefone celular não pára de tocar. A aceleração do mundo nos deixa estressados e, muitas vezes, infelizes. Mais do que nunca precisamos de paciência! Em O poder da paciência, você encontrará...
Habit Changers
81 Game-Changing Mantras to Mindfully Realize Your Goals
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
What would you like to change in your life? Be more focused at work? Communicate more effectively? Find work-life balance? Make smarter decisions? Be more patient with your team or family? Have greater self-confidence? Less stress? Just . . . be happier?
Often, the biggest obstacle to change...
Attitudes of Gratitude
How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Gratitude is a simple, profound practice that can change your life. Taking the time to notice and reflect upon the good things restores us to the natural place where we notice what’s right instead of wrong, opens our hearts, and creates happiness.
In a series of brief, evocative essays, M....
How to Survive Change . . . You Didn't Ask For
Bounce Back, Find Calm in Chaos, and Reinvent Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
"Change is hard," we say, and it is even harder when it is thrust upon us. At any point, we may be forced to reinvent our career or downsize our lives; we may lose a love or a dream. Our first reaction is to rail against fate, but what if we could see past today's turmoil and spot tomorrow’s...
Attitudes of Gratitude in Love
Creating More Joy in Your Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2002
"We can have happier and more joy-filled relationships if we focus on what's right about them rather than what's wrong," writes M. J. Ryan in Attitudes of Gratitude in Love, the follow-up to her bestselling Attitudes of Gratitude. In her characteristically down-to-earth style, Ryan helps...
by Nicholas Higham, M. J. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these epochal events, many of the contours and patterns of English life that would endure for the next millennium...
The Happiness Makeover
Teach Yourself to Enjoy Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Be Happy, Stay Happy
We all want the things that we’re sure will make us happy—money, success, independence, love. But when we finally get them, we can find to our surprise that we are the same miserable, moody, or just neutral people we always were. Is that just the way things are
Luckily,...
Giving Thanks
The Gifts of Gratitude
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
An illustrated guide to gratitude. MJ Ryan has taught us that everything goes better with gratitude! In 1999, she wrote Attitudes of Gratitude, a popular, best-selling book that extols the benefits of living with a grateful heart. When we let ourselves feel and express our appreciation, we feel happier,...
A Grateful Heart
Daily Blessings for the Evening Meals from Buddha to The Beatles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This collection of beautiful blessings, contemplations, and prayers offers grace and gratitude for everyday mealtime, holidays, and parties.
Drawing from a wide range of religious and cultural practices, these 365 blessings celebrate friendship, love, peace, reconciliation, the body, nature,...
by M. J. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
We all want to be happy, but according to research, two-thirds of us don't know how to be happy. Most of us think happiness resides in the things we don't have: the dream house, the perfect mate, the ideal job, the supermodel's body. As proof that possessions don't, in fact, increase the happiness...