Chicken Soup of the Soul: Your 10 Keys to Happiness, 101 Real-Life Stories to Improve Your Life

Show Guest: Amy Newmark

You already have all the necessary tools to find your happiness – you just need to learn how to use them. These inspirational, personal stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul’s library provide role models and tips so you can apply these keys to happiness to your own life.

According to Newmark, the most essential key to happiness is gratitude. She says, “I don’t think you can be truly happy without incorporating gratitude into your life.” She says the second most important key to happiness is forgiveness, calling it “one of the best tools we have at our disposal to create a better life for ourselves.” Why does she think it’s so important? She says it’s because of the emotional weight that we carry when we hold onto resentments. In her introduction to the forgiveness chapter, she likens those feelings to wearing a heavy cloak, and she recommends shrugging our shoulders so that cloak falls to the ground, leaving the bad parts of our pasts “in the past where they belong.”

This collection of stories from the Chicken Soup for the Soul library will remind your audience that finding true happiness may not be as difficult as they think — in fact, they have the necessary tools — they just have to learn how to use them! After 14 years as editor-in-chief of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Amy Newmark has figured out the ten keys to happiness. Even adopting one of them will make a big difference to your listeners and viewers. She will share stories that illustrate the ten keys.