Book excerpt: Happy Hours, cheers to life is a relationship guide that offers easy techniques that are simple to use yet can bring a sea difference to our relationships. When we talk of relationships, we are including here, our relationship with our spouse, in-laws, kids, our colleagues at work, our subordinates and seniors and definitely relationship with our own selves. All of us strive to live a happy life and bring satisfaction to our people and to ourselves but something stops us leaving us wondering as to what goes wrong that doesn’t allow us to be happy as we want. What breeds that sense of gap between our being and where we want to reach. Offering you some self-help relationship techniques on the platter doesn’t guarantee a solution to all the problems in our lives but it certainly assures a flavor of the realization how small changes in our approach towards life can facilitate huge transformations. They say, ‘happiness is a state of mind’, let us create that state of mind. So read on and explore innovative and creative ideas as to how we can make a living out of our lives.