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  • Giveaway: Tiny Buddha’s Handbook for Peace and Happiness

    Giveaway: Tiny Buddha’s Handbook for Peace and Happiness

    Update: The winners have already been chosen for this giveaway. Subscribe to The Tiny Buddha List to learn about future contests, and click below to purchase this eBook for $10.97!

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    Since I launched tinybuddha.com in September of 2009, I’ve hosted quite a few giveaways for books that moved me.

    Today is a very exciting day for me—one that’s a year in a half in the making: Today I am giving away five free copies of my book.

    If you’ve been reading for a while, you may think I’m referring to my book about life’s hardest questions, which Conari Press will publish at the end of this year.

    This book is something altogether different.

    Tiny Buddha’s Handbook for Peace & Happiness is the ultimate guide of Tiny Buddha wisdom, based on some of my most powerful, popular posts and quotes from the site.

    You’ll also find five posts not previously published on tinybuddha.com.

    With 161 pages, Tiny Buddha’s Handbook for Peace & Happiness explores concepts essential to loving yourself, your relationships, and your life.

    According to feedback throughout the site, the content has helped readers:

    • Feel a sense of empowerment to make positive changes in their lives
    • Accept and love their authentic selves
    • Depend less on external approval for happiness
    • Experience a greater sense of happiness in the present moment
    • Move on from painful events to feel joy again
    • Let go of negative feelings, attachments, fears, worries, and stresses
    • Stay present and peaceful, even when dealing with uncertainty
    • Create and maintain peaceful, loving, meaningful relationships
    • Deal with difficult or negative people
    • Slow down while still achieving goals
    • Find the courage to start pursuing meaningful work
    • Create and seek new possibilities for excitement and adventure
    • Overcome obstacles, mental blocks, and criticism to seize dreams

    I’ve categorized the posts into the following sections:

    1. Developing Self-Love
    2. Happiness and Mindfulness
    3. Letting Go and Letting Peace In
    4. Maintaining Healthy Relationships
    5. Reconciling Busyness and Happiness
    6. Creating the Life You Visualize

    Through this eBook, I’ve shared myself authentically and vulnerably. I have also offered countless action-oriented suggestions to improve your state of mind, and in doing so, change your life. (more…)

  • How You Made Tiny Buddha Beautiful This Year: Our 2010 in Review

    How You Made Tiny Buddha Beautiful This Year: Our 2010 in Review

    “We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.” ~Anonymous

    Before September 2009, I thought I wanted to run a personal development blog—a place to share the lessons I’ve learned and generally build a community around the idea of teaching people to improve their lives. Then I realized that wasn’t my vision.

    There were a couple reasons for that.

    I feel the biggest challenge isn’t gaining new information; it’s learning to apply it.

    Instead of trying to build authority, I wanted to embrace my humanity—to be both strong and vulnerable, willing to share what I’ve learned and continually learn from you.

    I wanted to be part of this community, not standing outside it telling you to follow me.

    I am not Tiny Buddha—we all are. We all have the same capacity to learn, grow, and inspire.

    This year you have all inspired and amazed me. You’ve demonstrated bravery, honesty, and authenticity. Whether you’ve written for the site, commented, read and shared, or simply passed through, you’ve been a valuable part of this community.

    Though I know I just said this site isn’t all about me, it means the world to me. I put all of my heart into running Tiny Buddha, and I couldn’t be more grateful for your continued participation. You make Tiny Buddha what it is, and I appreciate you.

    So I’ve decided to do a hybrid year-end review. I’d like to share a little of what I’ve accomplished, some of what you’ve accomplished, a bit about the site’s growth, and a few details about plans for 2011. (more…)

  • Approaching the Site’s 1-Year Anniversary (Giveaways!)

    Approaching the Site’s 1-Year Anniversary (Giveaways!)

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    It’s a pretty exciting week in Tiny Buddha world. Several months back, I decided to have Tiny Buddha redesigned.

    Well, we decided.  There is an amazing man named Joshua Denney who has done a lot of work on the site.

    It’s through his passion, expertise, and hard work that we’ll have a completely new design at the end of this week.

    One of the reasons I’m excited to launch the new site this week is that Thursday is the site’s one-year anniversary.

    With that in mind, I’ve decided to do a few things:

    1. Conduct a series of book giveaways leading up to the anniversary/redesign.

    2. Highlight some of the milestones from the first year’s journey.

    3. Share some of the most popular posts from the year past. (more…)

  • 4 Life-Changing Lessons I’ve Learned from Running Tiny Buddha

    4 Life-Changing Lessons I’ve Learned from Running Tiny Buddha

    “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.” ~Rumi

    I have been working on Tiny Buddha for over two years, and yet I’ve rarely written about my experiences running it.

    I haven’t told you anything about my own challenges, opportunities, and lessons in maintaining the site, and it occurred to me today that that might be valuable information.

    You probably have a Tiny Buddha in your own life—something you created that you’re absolutely in love with. Or maybe you haven’t found it yet, but you want to build something that drives you like nothing else.

    Tiny Buddha has been that for me, and I’d like to share with you a few of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned along the way: (more…)

  • Tiny Buddha Launch Contest Winners

    Tiny Buddha Launch Contest Winners

    TinyBuddhaIt’s been an exciting couple of days since we first launched! Without further ado, here are the winners of the launch contest:

    Amanda Ryan will receive:

    -How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life, the Dalai  Lama
    -The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
    -Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Every Day Life, Thich Nhat Hanh
    -A yoga mat
    -A tiny buddha statue
    -Tea Starter Kit by Kevin Rose, sold at Samovar Tea Lounge

    Suzy Arbet, Mark Dell, Chelsea Tatum, Michael Stanziano and Erica Torres will each receive:

    -How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life, the Dalai Lama
    -A tiny buddha statue

    Check back regularly for more wisdom and giveaways. Also, let us know if you have any feedback about the site, or a blog post to share that ties into one of the daily quotes. We’re just a message away at email @ tinybuddha.com.