Book excerpt: ‘The Handbook of Happiness’ is in your hand. It is for you, it is for young generations, it is for students, it is for a person who wants to change his life and build up his career. For this, just go through each chapter of the book patiently. Don’t just read, It is much more important to implement the thoughts expressed in it and shape your life accordingly. I hope this book will help you achieve your ambitions, motivate you never to give up, and inspire you to pursue greatness. Each day, you commit yourself to doing something to improve. You will find a differ- ent personality in you! If you don’t believe, just do so and experience the difference! Wish you all the best! Happiness is an emotional state characterised by feelings of joy, satis- faction, contentment and fulfilment. While happiness has many different definitions, it is often described as involving positive emotions and life satisfaction. But we also need to understand that happiness is not static in one’s life. Many a time one will experience ups and downs but our effort should focus onto getting more happy moments in life. And if you form the habit of getting happiness from everything, whatever happens around, you will be a person full of happiness. There is no single way to be in a state of happiness but you need to cultivate a few habits which can help you to do to remain in a state of happiness. Authentic happiness comes from within. It comes from making wise choices, including choosing to be happy. When our external situation is going well, it might make it easier for us to choose happiness, but it is not the cause of it. You can be happy even when things around you are nothing like you would like them to be. Our learned professor Shri Pravinchandra Thakkar has written a book “The handbook of happiness” which is a marvelous book and can give you insight of different skills to place yourself in a state of happiness on long term basis. That same book in Gujarati has gone to 1,45,000 people itself shows the importance and value of the book. Among the important skills mentioned is to set a realistic goal. Once you do this, you need to put your best afforts to achieve it by preservance in this journey of achieving the goal; it is not necessary that you are rich or a poor person, you are educated or uneducated, you are an able or differently abled person. What is more important is your approach in making the journey happy. Your responsibility for the work your dedication for the goal, your readiness to acquire knowledge through books, interactions, your ability to build the relationships, desire to continuous learning, capacity to ask your right, preparing yourself to face your difficulties and crisis to come out but do not allow them to take over your mind. Your skills for the time management, your behaviour pattern and your leadership quality which gives you success of happiness should prevail. Pravinbhai has explained all this skills with examples of various people from different parts of the world. Many of them had no education, no financial resources and not with very great I.Q.s still they succeeded and become happy persons. I strongly suggest to read this book as a scripture rather than a novel. Read couple of pages at night at your convenient time and churn about it. And I am sure you will acquire all the skills which are mentioned to achieve the goal of lifetime happiness. He has rightly mentioned ‘to make life meaningful and goal oriented.’ only one quality or remedy will not work. For that, the whole package of acquiring happiness has to be understood and accepted. I complement Pravinbhai for this extraordinary book and for giving people an opportunity to find a chance to be happy.