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 instant
Happy
10-second attitude makeovers

Karen Salmansohn
best-selling author of How to Be Happy, Dammit

TEN SPEED PRESS

Berkeley

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 True happiness
isn’t about the
things
you have;
it’s about the
Thoughts
you have.
That’s why it’s called
positive Thinking
Not
positive Thing-ing.
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 Don’t let
a bad day

make you
feel like
you have
a bad life.

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 When in
the midst of
chaos,

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 find that
stillness
within you.

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 Copyright © 2012 by Karen Salmansohn
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the
Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
www.crownpublishing.com
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Ten Speed Press and the Ten Speed Press colophon are registered trademarks
of Random House, Inc.
The posters in this work were originally designed and published by Karen
Salmansohn on her website, www.notsalmon.com.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Salmansohn, Karen.
Instant happy : 10-second attitude makeovers / Karen Salmansohn.
p. cm.
1. Happiness. 2. Attitude (Psychology) 3. Optimism. I. Title.
BF575.H27S342 2012
158.1—dc23
2012012083
ISBN 978-1-60774-368-2
eISBN 978-1-60774-369-9
Printed in China
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