Beyond Happiness

The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction

By: Dr. Jennifer Guttman

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Are you happy? Nearly half of adults worldwide—40 percent—would say “no”. Even when we possess it, happiness can be a fleeting emotion. It’s natural that we should desire something longer lasting.

In Beyond Happiness: The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction, psychologist Dr. Jennifer Guttman guides listeners in living a deeply fulfilling life by aiming for a kind of contentment that is more sustainable than happiness.

Having endured a number of life-altering challenges, Dr. Guttman knows firsthand how transient happiness can be. She spent nine years battling medical professionals to receive care for her son, whose long undiagnosed ailment eventually led to extensive heart surgery. Next, she faced life-threatening health issues of her own and, soon after, her father’s death. Unexpectedly, she came out stronger and more content. But how, exactly?

Dr. Guttman analyzed the steps she took to persist in the face of adversity and to remain optimistic despite the obstacles she had to overcome. She subsequently shared these actionable techniques with clients suffering from depression, anxiety, feelings of unlovability, and feelings of existential despair. The tools that had helped her helped them.

In Beyond Happiness, Dr. Guttman empowers listeners to achieve lifetime satisfaction by employing six techniques that can be practiced and even mastered in the comfort of your own home:

1. Avoiding assumptions
2. Reducing people-pleasing behaviors
3. Facing fears
4. Making decisions
5. Closing out tasks
6. Active self-reinforcement

When coalesced, Dr. Guttman’s techniques will buttress feelings of inherent lovability, defiant resilience, patience, authenticity, and self-confidence. She provides clear-cut strategies and tangible steps that can be easily incorporated into everyday life.

Engaging and enlightening, Beyond Happiness: The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction offers a user-friendly, practical approach not only to surviving life’s pitfalls but to thriving with a durable, balanced, sustainable level of contentment.

©2022 Sustainable Life Satisfaction, LLC (P)2022 Audible Originals LLC

A beautiful surprise

I received so many nuggets from this book! I loved the topics and how they were broken down with examples and strategies.

understand my life better

relay good book and recommended to anyone, thech you to many tools in the present life for people

Really a eye opener if you are a people pleaser.

This was a great book, it really opened my eyes to how much of a double edged sword being a people pleaser is. I always thought about being happy but not so much on satisfaction and this book definitely highlighted that. This was a good, helpful read.

Read On

I almost discontinued listening, as the beginning sounded a bit mundane. Glad I continued, though, as it turned out to be a very worthwhile experience. A lot of pertinent points were discussed, with valuable lessons learned.

Let It Stay! Awesome Book

Beyond Happiness: The 6 Secrets of Lifetime Satisfaction by Dr. Jennifer Guttman
6h 28m narrated by Bernadette Dunne, 256 pages

Genre: Personal Success, Self-Help, Nonfiction

Features: Perseverance, Stop People Please, Satisfaction, Social Media, Self-Concept: Self-Worth, Self-Confidence, Self-Efficacy Self-Respect, Belief in One's Inherent Lovability, Avoid Assumptions, Reducing People Pleasing Behaviors, Face Your Fears, Make Decisions, Following Through - Starting is Easy Finishing is Hard, Closing Out Tasks,
Active Self-Reinforcement, Thinking Errors, Magnifying and Minimizing, Patience, Frustration Tolerance, Overthinking, Rubber-Band Method, Self Talk, Not Rescuing Your Children, Anxiety, Treat Yourself Well, Habit Formation, Types of Resilience

Rating as a movie: PG-13

My rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟❤️

My thoughts: This book was in my Audible library, and I discovered it was going to expire in the Included catalog in 9 hours, so I spent my night reading this book. It was a very good read, and I am saddened to know I can't reread it without using a credit or paying $10-$28. One of the best books I've read on the topic, better than Atomic Habits, as this book focuses on that too.

Recommend to others?: Absolutely!

Now I always say I’m looking for lifetime satisfaction instead of happiness

I believe in setting the right goals for the right outcomes and Dr. Guttman’s book sets the reader up for success from the start by targeting lifetime satisfaction, not happiness.

I’ve been using the strategies Dr. Guttman lays out in this book and have found myself feeling more empowered and confident, which opens me up to greater contentment. Highly recommend!

Great job

I do really like all the details , performance and enjoyed a lot,, very obvious to feel the great effort to do such a nice book like this,, highly recommended,, I will listen to it again and again,, Thank you Dr.Jennifer,, hope that I will be lucky to meet you some day,, It’s me Dr.Amel

Excellent Book

This was a truly excellent book that I highly recommend. It absolutely does go beyond happiness and provides us with a number of tools to lead a truly resilient life in the face of adversity. Her personal, educational, and career background allow her to speak from a place of real knowledge only a few of today’s authors can claim. I’ve already pre-ordered my physical copy and intend to go through it with a highlighter and page markers for the sections that have already resonated with me.

Sweet and comforting.

The audio narration of this book takes the cake for calming, maternal, and still interesting while keeping you engaged. The concepts in the book are familiar and the stories very personal to the author, but the scientific, motherly, and modern approach from Guttman is sweet and accessible.

Good read

I found it very interesting and in formative in how to improve our way of thinking and how current events have affected our mindset.