Welcome to Episode 190 of Live Happy Now.

This is your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us.

As we get a little deeper into the new year, it's a great time to pick up some books that can help you make the most of the weeks and months ahead.

This week, Live Happy book editor Sandra Bilbray talks with us about five books that she thinks could change your life in the new year. And she tells us why you don't want to miss them. Sandra, thank you for joining us here today. You know, our readers get to see what you've done, but it's not very often that our listeners get to hear from you. So I'm very excited for us to have this conversation today. Oh, I am too. I'm so

happy to be here, Paula. Now, you do a great job of getting out there and finding all the new

positive psychology books that are coming out and guiding us through what's going on. So we thought

this would be the perfect time to sit down and talk about some of the things that maybe people

want to read for 2019 to help

get the year started or help the year progress a little bit smoother.

Oh, absolutely.

So one of the first books that I want to talk about is called Big Potential by Sean Acre.

This book is so great to start a year out because it's all about achieving your

potential through the power of community. Oh, interesting. What ways did he bring out that we can use

community to reach our potential? Well, you know, it's so, you know, I think this is so true. He, you know, just talks about how, you know, so many people feel like they're in their own lane and they have to achieve success, you know, for themselves in their own lane. But he's, he discusses and writes about in this book that you don't have to go it alone that if you

surround yourselves with other stars then you will truly be able to shine and that's something that's

hard for us to do i think a lot of times as individuals but it's getting probably more difficult

because of our isolation that we've we've been able to achieve through

technology. So does he address how to kind of overcome some of that and find connectivity

with others? He really does. You know, he writes a lot about how, you know, when you pursue

success alone, you become stressed and disconnected. And, you know And while some might say that social media has made us a more connected world,

you know, others point out how, you know, the one-on-one conversations, the face-to-face,

you know, those are minimized.

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