Art of Enjoying Life: 23 Beautiful Ideas on a Life Well Lived.

Somewhere along the way, you stopped enjoying your life. You stopped enjoying the little moments and the now. You did not mean to, but it happened...Let's be real here. Your life is not going badly. On paper, everything is fine. The job is fine. The relationship is fine. The weekend was fine. But at seven in the evening, something in your chest is tired in a way no sleep has been touching, and you have started to suspect, quietly, that this is not what the good life was supposed to feel like…There is a way back, and it has been waiting for you the whole time!The Italians have known it for two thousand years. So have the Japanese, the Danes, the Norwegians, the Spanish, and the Dutch. Il Dolce far niente. Hygge. Ichigo Ichie. La Dolce Vita. Sukha. Every one of these words names a small warm practice that has been protecting the joy of ordinary life in some corner of the world for centuries.The Art of Enjoying Life gathers twenty-three of them into one gentle map of a life worth living!Written for the overwhelmed modern soul who has a good life on paper and a tired one on the inside. Written for the parent, the professional, the traveler, the one who has stopped feeling their own Wednesdays…Inside this book, you will discover:How to give yourself the permission to stop that modern life has quietly taken from youWhy the small daily beauty around you has been waiting to be seen againThe Northern European art of building warmth around a demanding modern weekThe Italian architecture of arranging a whole life around small daily sweetnessesHow to feel the full delight of being alive without needing anything to change first!—This book will not ask you to move to Tuscany, quit your job, or become a different person. It will only ask you to notice the small warm practices that have been waiting for you in your own kitchen, your own city, and your own ordinary Wednesday.Twenty-three short chapters, arranged in four gentle parts. One warm practice per chapter that you can carry into your own week the same day you read it.If you have been living a fine life without feeling any of it, this is the book that will hand you the joy you had almost forgotten was available. Take it with both hands.Enjoying your life was always the point. —The Source Code of HappinessI have written seventy books on the world's most beautiful philosophies, and along the way I noticed something I did not expect. Underneath all seventy of them, drawn from a dozen cultures and twenty-five hundred years of human thought, there were not really seventy answers to how to live well. There were four. I came to call them the four secrets of life. And when you understand all four of them, you have in your hands what I have started calling, without irony, the source code of happiness.This book is one of five in that series:) The Art of Acceptance) The Art of Becoming Better) The Art of Enjoying Life) The Art of Us) The 4 Secrets of Life: The Source Code of HappinessIn this book you will uncover the third of those secrets: Enjoying Life.