The Best Ever You Show Best Ever You

A scientific, groundbreaking approach to happiness and personal fulfillment.


In 1979, Dr. Alphonsus Obayuwana was awarded a national research grant and Smith-Kline Medical Perspective Fellowship to develop an instrument for measuring human hope, with the purpose of detecting hopelessness early enough in troubled human individuals so assistance could be offered in time to prevent suicide. The Hope Index Scale (HIS) that resulted from this grant became very popular with Fortune 500 companies and other institutions both in the US and in other countries. This led to the foundation of decades of research that ultimately resulted in this cutting-edge book, The Happiness Formula: Using Science to Understand Personal Satisfaction, Human Hope, and Subjective Well-Being.


Unlike other books about happiness, which are too often filled with dos and don’ts, wishful thinking, and empty aphorisms, The Happiness Formula breaks new ground by introducing a universal unit of measure called the “Personal Happiness Index” or PHI. This makes it possible—for the first time ever—to calculate and assign numerical happiness scores to human individuals by plugging their unique hopes, hungers, assets, and aspirations into an equation.


Despite its title, The Happiness Formula is much more than a mathematical equation for measuring happiness. It is a book about life; the relationship between human hope and happiness; how to find, measure and boost them; and, most interestingly, how to confirm the happiest country in the world and even help identify the happiest living human, or HLH. It challenges the World Happiness Report of 2023, debunks three major happiness myths, and then introduces the Triple-H Equation—the simple but profound formula about what makes life worth living. This is a book for happiness seekers and happiness advocates everywhere.

A gentle guide for helping readers “over a certain age” discover their best life by finding the right-sized home in the best location.


Moving is no fun. Neither is getting rid of stuff. And both jobs get harder as we get older. So, when those over a certain age — say, in the last third of life — are looking to downsize and move all at the same time, many will conclude, “I’ll just stay put, thank you very much.” It’s not just the acquired possessions holding them back, but also the intangibles. Their memories, their family history, their identities are all in jeopardy, they think. And yet, that reluctance to lighten up, let go, and move on is commonly all that stands between them and a better life.

Rightsize Today to Create Your Best Life Tomorrow will help this group of root-bound home dwellers cross the bridge between stuck in the past and a lighter, better future. It will encourage them to embrace the fact that now, when they’re no longer tethered to a school system or to a job they need to be near, is their chance to live where they want to live. Every section contains checklists: some soul-searching (should you or shouldn’t you move?), some practical (what every kitchen must have), and some logistical (where’s your happy place?), to help readers on their journey.


Included are enlightening profiles of those who proactively changed their housing in the last third of their life. Whether they moved to a smaller place, remodeled their existing home, or even moved to a larger home, which one third do; whether they moved to a new city, to a senior community, or to a new home in the same neighborhood, they all reimagined their lives, re-evaluated their belongings and made a move toward a better and possibly their best life yet.

he Mother-Daughter Relationship Makeover combines a compelling mother and daughter memoir with self-help and a formula for readers to explore their own mother-daughter history, understand and ease their conflicts, and rediscover their appreciation and love.


Bestselling author Leslie Glass and her daughter, award-winning documentarian Lindsey Glass, offer a brand-new kind of interactive self-help book that combines actionable information, compelling storytelling, and writing prompts that are guaranteed to bring awareness, understanding, and compassion to mothers and daughters everywhere. It is a book that promises to heal your relationship and keep it strong, offering a positive pathway to peace and serenity no matter how far apart you feel you are.


Leslie and Lindsey have lived through their own traumas and devastating ups and downs in their relationship. They’ve turned their experiences into a successful platform for helping others and share them here in this book. They use their own tumultuous story, told from their respective points of view, to help mothers and daughters understand that even if you go off track, go to war, part ways for years, you can still find your way back to friendship, understanding, and love. For the first time, Leslie and Lindsey will share their secret sauce for healing, broken down into four steps:

•Revealing Your Back Story


•Exploring Your Emotional and Personality Styles


•Understanding Your Conflicts and Triggers


•Learning the Tools to Restore the Love

When the 2008 recession hit, thirty-three-year-old Heidi Beierle was single, underemployed, and ready for a change. But going back to school was not the solution she thought it would be, and her gloom deepened. Then, an email she received sparked a research idea, prompting her to bike from Eugene, Oregon, to Washington, D.C., to study bicycle tourism, a match with her personal interest to fix her failures by spending the summer pedaling. However, what she discovers on her journey across America isn’t what she expects.  

The extreme weather, difficult drivers and challenging terrain test her more than she imagines, but the kindness of strangers helps her see that her heart can be both soft and strong. Heidi Beierle’s memoir, Heidi Across America, offers a journey to self-love, consideration for others, and respect for the spirit of place as pathways to find connection and home.  

An encouraging story of learning self-love and compassion, Heidi Across America is a gritty story of how opening our hearts to others enables us to open our hearts to ourselves and love what we find there. 

Heidi Beierle is an artist, writer, and adventurer who grew up in the wind and high plains of Wyoming. Her writing about her cross-country bicycle ride has been published in National Geographic Traveler, High Desert Journal, VoiceCatcher Journal, Journal of America’s Byways, and on the Adventure Cycling Association blog. She lives in Bellingham, Washington. Find out more at heidibeierle.com. 

Toddlers hold the secrets to having more fun and living a fulfilling life. In the first book to offer adults important lessons that can be gleaned from toddlers— as backed by science—a Harvard-trained physician helps us rediscover what we once knew. Terrible twos, temper tantrums, and grocery store meltdowns are usually the first things that come to mind when people think of toddlers. But pediatric emergency medicine physician and researcher Dr. Hasan Merali has long thought toddlers are among the best people in our society and adults could do well to learn from them. They can teach us how to: Lose weight naturally Sleep better Build stronger friendships Improve teamwork Be more productive Have more fun, and Live a more fulfilling life

Hasan Merali, MD, MPH, is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University and a pediatric emergency medicine physician at McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on child injury prevention in low- and middle-income countries. He has published more than twenty-five peer-reviewed journal articles and his writing has been featured in Science, the Boston Globe, NBC, CBC, and Popular Science. Dr. Merali lives in Oakville, Ontario with his wife and their toddler daughter.

 

Lisa Doggett is a family physician, writer, and MS warrior based in Austin, Texas. She is the author of Up the Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood and Multiple Sclerosis.An activist at heart, she is a cofounder of Texas Physicians for Social Responsibility and a columnist for Public Health Watch. She previously directed a safety-net clinic where she saw a mix of patients struggling with their own health challenges in a deeply dysfunctional system. She has battled frustrating symptoms, relapses, and insurance companies. But she has also run two marathons and completed a Half Ironman triathlon, traveled throughout the U.S. and internationally, raised two daughters, and embraced her work as a physician leader dedicated to improving health care for underserved communities. Lisa graduated from Amherst College, Baylor College of Medicine, and the University of Texas School of Public Health. She has been published in the New York Times, the Dallas Morning News, Motherwell, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Austin American-Statesman,and on NPR.org. She blogs for the National MS Society’s Momentummagazine and has been featured in Parents magazine, Women’s World,and on CBS Sunday Morning. She lives near downtown Austin, with her husband, Don Williams, a hospital-based pediatrician, and their two daughters, Ella and Clara. This is her first book. For more, please visit her website: www.lisadoggett.com