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The Winners:
This is the 2nd in a series of 4 holiday giveaways for my book, Tiny Buddha: Simple Wisdom for Life’s Hard Questions, which launched right around this time last year.
If you’ve already learned about the book or purchased it, this post will be redundant for you! For those who haven’t read it, here’s a little information about it:
This is the first book of its kind—with tweets woven throughout.
I asked @tinybuddha followers a number of the most challenging questions in life, like:
- Why is there suffering in the world?
- What’s the meaning of life?
- What does it take to be happy?
- Why are relationships hard?
Since there are very few concrete answers to the big questions, I wanted to explore many varied perspectives to create a guide of possibilities for joy, purpose, and connection.
Although these tweets shaped the book, I also included a great deal of my own struggles, successes, and insights—far more than I’ve ever revealed on the blog. From my former battle with depression to my struggles with relationships, I shared how these questions have played out in my own life—and what I’ve learned at each step of the way.
Through this book, you’ll learn a few ideas to:
- Let go of pain from the past that’s been weighing you down and holding you back
- Create a sense of purpose, starting right now, even if you’re not doing what you want to do professionally
- Change habits that have not served you well and open up to new, better ways of being
- Experience happiness right now, regardless of your circumstances
- Improve your relationships
- Seize the moment to live more mindfully, passionately, and fearlessly
- Find a sense of control and empowerment in an uncertain world
I will do 4 giveaways this month, 1 per week. I will choose 2 winners for each giveaway and mail all of 8 books together at the end of the month.
To enter:
- Leave a comment on this post, sharing something that made you smile today.
- Tweet: Tiny Buddha Book Holiday Giveaway: Comment and RT to enter! http://bit.ly/WamfAa
About Lori Deschene
Lori Deschene is the founder of Tiny Buddha. She started the site after struggling with depression, bulimia, c-PTSD, and toxic shame so she could recycle her former pain into something useful and inspire others to do the same. You can find her books, including Tiny Buddha’s Gratitude Journal and Tiny Buddha’s Worry Journal, here and learn more about her eCourse, Recreate Your Life Story, if you’re ready to transform your life and become the person you want to be.
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My husband called me from overseas while I was driving to work to wish me a good day after having a string of stressful days there.
I saw a YouTube video of a big cat hugging a baby kitten when it was having a nightmare… still making me smile!
Is this giveaway open to people everywhere? That would make me smile even more!
I was woken up at 5 by a cuddly kitten and was able to enjoy a beautiful morning with her before leaving for work.
I wrote a poem for a friend and she published it on facebook and I received many positive comments
I saw a commercial and it made me smile and challenged me to be my awesome self today. http://youtu.be/6R_D4V-Ns3Y
I drew a topic out of a hat, to work on as an assignment… And also took a back burner roll.. Which is way out of my comfort zone.. To find out that a new friend that i just made is the lead… This was clearly the universe conspiring. 🙂
Waking up made me smile.
morning yoga ALWAYS makes me smile 🙂
My dog. The simple goodness, trust and compassion an animal offers teaches me about how I might better treat others.
A friend’s encouraging words when I thought my day was off to a rough start.
Do you like pancakes? Yeah we like pancakes…
While making pancakes, the dry ingredients were in the bowl, poured the wet ingredients on top of that. The ball of dry ingredients popped out of the liquid like a buoy in water. Caused me to laugh out loud. It’s the small things in life.
My cat, Oscar, greeting me with love every morning.
I smile every morning that I wake up and see my dog smiling at me…he is waiting patiently for me to get up, get his medicine and his breakfast. He has an enlarged heart and the vet said that he doesn’t have much time left to be with me. It truly is a blessing each morning.
My friend forwarded me this article after a particularly bad morning with my pre-teen. So thoughtful of her and so timely… helps put things in perspective and ideas for positive change. Would love to win the book…… Glad this newbie found you.
What made me smile today, was waking up and realizing I still had time left to sleep! Oh and flavored cream cheese on my bagel. mmm.
In the busyness of my morning I stopped to smile and be happy that we have a busy household of four kids and two dogs and no matter how crazy it gets we are lucky!
Having leftover kugel for breakfast made me smile!
What made me happy today was waking up and realizing that I no longer missed the person who hurt me for so long and that I made myself happy.
Boyd, my canary, has finally started singing again, and I awoke to his “unique song stylings” for the first time since the summer.
Today I am happy because I made it back to the gym! It’s amazing how moving your body & clearing your mind can make you positive for the rest of the day.
What made me smile today is that I did what I could yesterday, I’ll do what I can today and tomorrow is another day.
Went outside today to feel the sun shining and temps in the mid forties! Beautiful warm winter day, nothing better. 🙂
my beautiful Mom, making chili and soup to warm my heart and soul and listening to my life stories… I am truly blessed.
My boss forwarded me an email from someone who had visited our campus and left a glowing review about her interaction with me. It made me smile from ear to ear to know I’m making an impact!
What made me smile today – Well, my 3 children and I spontaneously began talking to each other in jibberish. We continued the conversation for a good two minutes before one of them started laughing. It was a lot of fun!
It might be little, it might be basic, hell it might even be purely physical but:
Every day when I take my bus to work there’s a very beautiful girl that crosses my path (literally every day), for the last 2 weeks I hadn’t seen her and exactly today I was thinking that perhaps I should let go of the notion of seeing her, 30 seconds later she’s standing right in front of me, smiling and showing me with her eyes that she’d missed me, even though we haven’t said a word to each other.
Again, it might not be very “enlightened” but seeing her after so long made me happy.
I made a holiday bread pudding today, created it with love and joy. Reminds me of my mom, who is not able to spend christmas with me this year. So that puts a smile on my face, knowing she would be proud
Waking up this morning in good health with the positive thoughts from my family
Running 3 miles – the farthest I’ve run since coming back from an injury.
Went out for a massage, the sun is shining, and I am feeling food. smiling
Treating myself to a delicious chocolate croissant this morning made me smile.
I currently have a very broken heart, and I haven’t smiled in a week since it happened. But today a girl out of the blue wrote me a message that she had read my blogs and she felt my pain and she was goin to pray for my pain to lessen…i started crying but with a smile on my face..
I gave my first copy of this book to a dear friend who seemed to need some of it’s wisdom.
This book got me through an horrific visit which I had to make it through until my plane reservation. I helped me deal with a huge disappointment. It helped me go on with my life when my sure thing plan totally broke apart.
I miss it.
The simple hug from our “almost” 2 year old makes my day. He wakes up, crawls down the stairs and then runs up and hugs me. Perfect.
I actually have this book listed in my “Want to read” page on Goodreads. 🙂
One of the things that made me smile today was the comment on facebook from a friend of mine who told me I was beautiful inside and outside – such a lovely thing to read!!
I must admit it is hard to find something to smile about right now. The news out of Connecticut devastates me. I intend to find something though. Perhaps the thought of the loving hug I received from my 18-year-old nephew on Tuesday. Or, the amazing moment when I saw my brother yesterday after more than two years. Maybe it will be the antics of my friend’s cat, Hans that draw out my first little grin. Maybe I will focus on smiling more today, if only for those who do not have something to smile about.
I bought my little brother a present today that I know he will really enjoy. It is also my birthday tomorrow so I’m looking forward to that too! 🙂
I woke up laughing this morning. Listening to my husband and my kitty(Winifred) having a discussion on her leaving his stuff alone while he was trying to fix our shower-caddy. This is what I could hear: “Now Wini, please put that down, come back with that, quit eating that it will make you sick. Wini only weights in a about 4 pounds but sounds like a horse when she running away with my hubby’s stuff. Halarious…
I love this website and would love to read this book! Something that made me smile today was my morning heart meditation 🙂
I recieved a quote from someone that says “I confess…Ican no longer hide…I am a beautiful mess inside” and as I read that .. I smiled. It spoke volumes to me.
A police officer that works security in the retail store where I work got a visit from his little girl today. It made me smile to watch this tough guy melt when she ran through the door with arms wide open yelling “Daddy!”
Bought a homeless man food and sat and talked with him for a while. Listened to his story..which was nice. Told him to stay positive and he can create his reality.
We talked about the injustices and terrible things in the world and the positive things too. I’m glad to have listened to his story. He was cute too. Hahah. The light that shines in all of us shines in him and i hope it helps him find way to shelter and happiness.
My boyfriend and I were walking together while it was snowing tonight.. and we had really delicious roobios vanillia tea at home!
I’m a teacher at a school for kids with autism, and today was our winter music recital. Seeing and hearing all the kids play their instruments, sing, and do their best brought many big smiles to my face.
What made me smile today is receiving my first email from Tiny Buddha since I signed up! And being able to have a chance to win this book!! 🙂
A gunmen went into a CT school today and killed 27 people mostly children, when I heard this, the thought sickened me immensely. These were not my children, but I thought “they were all our children”, this act of violence as grave at it may seem, made me think what good can I do in its place, what can we all do good today as an act of love in place of this space of pain and sorrow. It made me think what are we not doing for each other and what can we do better or more for our selves and for one another. We are all connected and every act is a act on the whole. So why not replace that act with many acts of love and kindness and not just now but continue that pattern of love and maybe we “can change the world”.
What has made me smile today? My cozy bed and thinking about my future with my girlfriend. 🙂 Two wonderful aspects of my life that I am so grateful for.
I smiled when I began reading today’s “Tiny Buddha,” which I look forward to each Friday in my email. Good thing. Just learned of the tragic school shootings in Newtown, CT, and haven’t been able to slow my tears over the pain of losing so many little ones in a place where they should be able to feel safe – school, and the adults lost with them. My children are adults, yet my heart broke when I learned of this so I’m re-reading Tiny Buddha for whatever comfort it can bring.
It’s currently 6am in the morning where I am but the thought of my housemate coming home tonight & everyone in the house being home together (5 of us) makes me smile 🙂 we are all tour guides in central Australia & being home together doesn’t happen often.. So tonight will be a little like Christmas for us, can’t wait!
Smiled today while listening to my beloved wife snoring, deep in sleep, beside me . . .