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Get Happy and Create a Kick-Butt Life!: A Creative Toolbox to Rapidly Activate the Life You Desire Kindle Edition

by Jackie Ruka (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.7 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
Life is not about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself: “A call to action for anyone who wants to consciously influence their own destiny” (Marci Shimoff, New York Times–bestselling author of Happy for No Reason).

Whether it’s because of job loss, divorce, financial stress, relationship issues, or the state of society, life may have kicked you down. To which Jackie Ruka says, “It’s time to kick back and create your kick-butt life.”

Upping your game calls for highly targeted tools, action steps, and imagination. By unleashing your inner creator you can change your life by choosing happiness first! This exuberant guidebook provides inspirational, proactive practices to take your life to the next level by defining your joy, inner peace, and passion. Topics include:
  • If money does not buy happiness, what does?
  • Soul-talk vs. self-talk: building confidence and courage
  • Tools to be your ultimate self to learn your greatest strengths
  • 13 life enhancement techniques to overcome common life obstacles
  • Assessment of your heart path and life purpose: where your joy and power align
  • How you can be happy at any age
  • 10 scientific strategies to improve happiness
  • Moxie mantras: Activating your authoritative power and maintaining positive intention for sustained happiness
Unlock self-empowerment and whisk away those inner cobwebs holding you back—to take a turn in your life toward happiness and success!
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  1. Print length
    150 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Morgan James Publishing
  4. Publication date
    August 1, 2014
  5. Reading age
    18 years and up
  6. File size
    5.6 MB
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Editorial Reviews

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"Get Happy and Create a Kick-Butt Life offers a call to action for anyone who wants to consciously influence their own destiny. This book will set you on the path of greater self-empowerment...fast! "- Marci Shimoff New York Times best selling author of Happy for No Reason and contributor to The Secret" There is a happiness revolution happening in the U.S. Jackie is one of the few authors who not only understands the connection between personal happiness and social change but sees how to apply it in everyday life. Her book succinctly combines the main lessons, the field of Positive Psychology with those of new economics, packaging them into stories and exercises that really can change your life for happiness."- Laura Musikanski, JD.MBA, Executive Director of The Happiness Alliance, home of The Happiness Initiative and Gross National Happiness Index Survey" Jackie Ruka is truly inspirational. Her book offers the universal wisdom of her life lessons. Get Happy and Create a Kick-Butt Life has set a new, elevated standard for turning adversity in life to love and happiness."- Carolyn A. Brent, America's Caregiver Empowerment Strategist, Best Selling Author, CEO of a CareGiverStory.com

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Why I wrote this book: Job dissatisfaction, time imbalance, divorce, lack of emotional fulfillment, and economic downturn, weighs heavy in today's complex world. Life has a way of kicking you down! To which Jackie Ruka says: " It's time to kick butt and create the life YOU truly desire." In this action guide the author shares grounded research, psychological life enhancing techniques and the wisdom of your own true self that will empower you to transform the status quo of resilience. The author believes the only constant nowadays is change, which is leading to a conscious evolution as we grip the edge of a new revolution.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00MNWIOZG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Morgan James Publishing (August 1, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 1, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.6 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 150 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.7 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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Jackie Ruka

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Jackie Ruka is a Professional Happyologist and Certified Action Success Coach (affiliated with Harvard University and Medical School). Jackie is disrupting the “stress to reach success” work and life mindset and shifting to improved well-being, positive habits, purpose, and fulfillment. This results in greater productivity and abundance in life and business.

Before founding her science-based Get Happy movement, Jackie has been an award winning marketing and sales pro launching $100m to $2B brands for Fortune 100/500 companies. As a trained psychotherapist, she has been quoted in WSJ, Yahoo Finance and the Daily Worth, for her knowledge with assisting clients in business, overcoming limiting beliefs, and leadership toward creating positive change and expressing your greatest self to the world.

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  • ladyraven
    5.0 out of 5 stars Moving through the other side with a smile...
    Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2014
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    Jackie writes a brilliant book that is inspiring, uplifting and indeed, provides the "tools" to assist in pro-actively changing the way one thinks about themselves, about life and about human interaction and circumstances. It is not just for the stressed out corporate work force - it applies to anyone and everyone who needs a change in attitude, self love....direction. And of course it is also beneficial to those of us who have had major upheaval(s) in life, uncovering new paths and choices and re-inventing ourselves.
    The book itself potent, with lots of information packed into 139 pages. So much so, that I find I re-read information a lot as I "re-boot" my brain and my attitude. This is a must have for those in self recovery, those who need to be uplifted from within....it is all about focusing on YOU. We are all responsible for our own happiness and this is a guide to help open our minds to positive/happy thought processes in an ever challenging world full of various problems and issues. I believe everyone can benefit from this book in some way as you apply it to yourself, your life, your circumstances.... No looking back! :)
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  • William burkhard
    1.0 out of 5 stars This is the most boring inspirational book I've ever read
    Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2017
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    This is the most boring inspirational book I've ever read. The majority are of thought has been borrowed from other authors
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  • Shannon Rhett
    5.0 out of 5 stars This book is so inspiring!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2020
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    Jackie has an amazing way of simplifying her proven techniques and strategies. This is a treasure chest full of tools you can use easily whenever you need them. Her words are so powerful and comforting. "It's like putting on a cozy warm jacket in the dead of winter."
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  • Richard Harrington
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2015
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    Very uplifting!
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  • Maggie
    1.0 out of 5 stars Copy and paste from other sources
    Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2023
    The information provided in this book, seems to be copied from different sources via google.

    This so called author, is currently a waitress on Hilton Head Island.
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  • M. George
    5.0 out of 5 stars We should all have a copy in out tool box!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2014
    I would certainly recommend this book for anyone who is experiencing a life transition, divorce, job stress or health scare. There are many different ways to cope with change. Jackie Ruka shares her experience and wisdom to creatively heal and proactively experience change by following the road to happiness. She gives you the tools and understanding toward both large and small mind shifts and to drink a cup of courage everyday to bravely empower yourself! The powerful tools you will have as a constant companion toward life fulfillment. Jackie really cares and has experienced her own traumatic event, so she gets it and wants to help!
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  • j. anonymous
    5.0 out of 5 stars Create your awesomeness by creating a kick-butt life the Jackie Ruka way!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2014
    Choice, power and awakening to your soul's purpose is what life is all about and this book delivers the tools for you to accomplish your true, soul driven purpose. Creating a Kick-butt life is about using the tools that already exist within you to invent yourself and the life you have always dreamed or are currently dreaming about. I highly recommend reading this book and using the tools and exercises found within as they will help you to create not only a kick-butt life, but one where you are truly happy and fulfilled and energized!
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  • Rarin2go
    5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely a 5-star read!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2015
    Jackie Ruka's book encompasses so much great information about how to attain genuine happiness, positive psychology, and gratitude realization! It is a resource that I return to over and over again. I never felt like I was reading a textbook; rather, just the opposite, Jackie offers a light, but well-structured style that kept me engaged throughout.
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