Happiness Matters: Action Guide & Journal

Knowing what can change your life is one thing. Actually doing something with it is another.

Happiness Matters: Action Guide & Journal is the hands-on companion to Happiness Matters: Unleash Your Superpower in 7 Easy Steps, created to help you take the ideas from the book off the page and into your everyday life.

Through guided activities, thought-provoking prompts, action steps, and space for honest reflection, you’ll explore each of the seven steps more deeply — and discover what they mean specifically for you.

Because happiness isn’t something you simply read about.

It’s something you practice.

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You’ve read the ideas. You understand the concepts.

Now what are you going to do with them?

Happiness Matters: Action Guide & Journal was created as the practical companion to Happiness Matters: Unleash Your Superpower in 7 Easy Steps — helping you move from reading about happiness to actively exploring what it looks like in your own life.

Working through the same seven-step framework introduced in Unleash Your Superpower, this guide gives you opportunities to slow down, reflect, question, experiment, and put what you’re learning into practice.

Inside, you’ll find guided activities, action steps, reflective prompts, and journaling space designed to help you:

Explore each of the seven steps on a more personal level
Recognize patterns, beliefs, and perspectives influencing your happiness
Turn insight into intentional action
Reflect on what is working, what isn’t, and what you want to change
Capture discoveries and track your growth along the way

This isn’t about completing exercises perfectly or racing to some imaginary happiness finish line.

It’s about becoming an active participant in your own experience.

Take your time. Be curious. Write the messy answer. Change your mind. Come back to something later and discover that you see it completely differently now.

That’s part of the process.

While this Action Guide can encourage meaningful reflection on its own, it was specifically created to accompany Happiness Matters: Unleash Your Superpower in 7 Easy Steps. Using the two together gives you both the ideas behind the seven steps and the practical opportunity to apply them.

Because lasting change rarely happens simply because you learned something.

It happens when you begin doing something differently with what you learned.

Read it. Explore it. Question it. Practice it. Make it yours.

Happiness matters — and so does what you do with it.

👋 About the Author
Beenie Mann, PhD

Beenie Mann, PhD

Books for misfits, overthinkers, question-askers, and humans finding their own way forward.

Beenie Mann, PhD, is an author, perspective educator, counselor, and professional question-asker who believes different was never broken and perspective changes what becomes possible.

Her books explore the beautifully messy experience of being human — from happiness, identity, and neurodivergence to ego, uncertainty, self-trust, and the occasional WTF moment.

Known as the Queen of Shift, Beenie has a knack for taking complicated ideas and making them human, practical, and often funny. Her work doesn't tell readers what to think or hand them another list of things they need to fix. Instead, she invites them to question what they've been taught, recognize what is already within them, and discover perspectives that create more clarity, possibility, and choice.

She is the founder of Matters of Perspective® and the Happiness Matters Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to mindset education and hope in motion. Through her books and broader work, Beenie's message remains simple: you are allowed to question the rules, find what is true for you, and choose what comes next.

And yes, sometimes that process requires coffee.

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