Testimonials
What Some Experts Have Said About An Exercise in Happiness©
“An Exercise in Happiness” by Patrick McMillan is an awesome personal development book complete with exercises to champion 3rd to 5th graders to be their best. Every child should have the benefit of being taught the empowerment principles that make up this life-impacting book for kids.”
Dr. Joe Rubino – CEO, http://www.CenterForPersonalReinvention.com & http://www.TheSelfEsteemBook.com
“Being in the personal development field I’m crystal clear on just how important it is to focus our efforts developing a sense of passion, purpose, and power in our children. It is easy for this focus to get lost in the shuffle of “adult life”, but thankfully, Patrick has put together programs that make it fun and easy to empower children. Patrick is an absolute master at this, and his programs are excellent. I highly recommend his work to anyone with children or children in their lives!” Bob Doyle, Author, Speaker, and featured teacher in The Secret. http://www.wealthbeyondreason.com/
“I believe that the work Patrick is doing with An Exercise in Happiness is profound and important work. I have always believed that if we could change the way adults interact with children we could significantly if not completely reduce the suffering of adults. I believe Patrick’s work has the potential to do this.” Shelly Lefkoe, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Effective Parents Soul and President Possibilities of Parenting Center (Division of the Lefkoe Institute) http://www.improveyourparenting.com
“What a great program to teach kids emotional intelligence and the fact that you are responsible for your feelings and your actions.” Bob Younglove – VP – National Association for Self-Esteem (NASE) Performance Coach, Speaker, Author of SPONSOR SUCCESS http://pathassociatesonline.com/
“Scientific research confirms that happiness is a “learnable” skill. An Exercise in Happiness teaches children the tools they need to create for themselves a joyful and happy life.” – Marci Shimoff, NY Times Bestselling author, Love For No Reason, Happy For No Reason, and Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and featured teacher in The Secret. http://www.happyfornoreason.com/Products/HappyBook
“Patrick McMillan has done a superb job of presenting sound psychological principles for a happy, successful life in a way that young kids can understand and use. Schools that adopt it as a textbook will be doing their students–and themselves!–a great favor.” – Izzy Kalman, author, Bullies to Buddies: How to turn your enemies into friends. http://www.bullies2buddies.com
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I looked through your program, and it’s great. So important to bring up these ideas early and doing gratitude exercises with kids is very powerful.
Best wishes,
Tal
Tal Ben-Shahar, Ph.D. Harvard Positive Psychology Professor,
New York Times Best Selling Author of Happier
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Your message has such an important meaning for all of us to remember. I encourage you to keep getting it our there to students. What a great program to teach kids emotional intelligence and the fact that you are responsible for your feelings and your actions. I hope you will formalize this into a product that teachers and NASE members can purchase and use.
Bob Younglove, VP of National Association for Self-Esteem (NASE)
Performance Coach, Speaker and Author of SPONSOR SUCCESS
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I believe that the work Patrick is doing with Kids Can Do Anything is profound and important work. Having worked with people who are stuck in life for 23 years I have always believed that if we could change the way adults interact with children we could significantly if not completely reduce the suffering of adults. I believe Patrick’s work has the potential to do this. If kids grow up with emotional strength, their lives’ will be more successful and happier ones. If children have positive interactions with adults, their beliefs about themselves and life will be more positive. I don’t know of a more important outcome than that.
Shelly Lefkoe, President
Possibilities of Parenting a division of Lefkoe Institute
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We’re excited to offer the program to your kids. It’s a simple program that has the potential to do a great deal for our students. When I first heard about this program I was thrilled, because it closely aligns with our strategic plan and objectives of having students set long and short-term goals, while at the same time helping them to improve their self-esteem and self-confidence.
Frank LaViolette, Principal, West Jefferson Elementary School
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One girl made her goal that she would be kind to her friends because she told all of us that sometimes she knows that she is mean. I told her how emotionally brave she was to share and I believed that her awareness and intention would fuel a change. Her friends agreed the day had gone well. I have always taken time to guide my students in the affective realm and I love the concrete tool you have shared with us. We had such a great discussion yesterday, and so many people shared.
I thought I had already created a climate of well-being with my students and I am thrilled at the prospects of what our future holds as we do this important work together. I am grateful that we are your first school.
Pat
5th Grade Teacher
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Below are links to the latest books, clinical studies, articles, blogs and videos. Here is the first published article about An Exercise in Happiness.
Greater Good Magazine, The Science of a Meaningful Life, a publication of The Greater Good Science Center at The University of California at Berkeley, is fantastic resource for parents and teachers. Very informative articles and blogs about the Science of Happiness for Kids.
As pioneers in helping people eliminate self-limiting beliefs, Morty and Shelly Lefkoe, www.lefkoeinstitute.com have worked with thousands of grown-ups and helped parents understand the restrictions created by our beliefs we develop as children, and have a proven system to eliminate those beliefs for good, quickly. Morty has developed a free interactive web based program to help anyone discover where those beliefs originated, and a simple yet powerful way to change those beliefs. Please visit www.recreateyourlife.com to take advantage of this amazing tool Morty and Shelly have developed.
The following published articles explain The Lefkoe Method (TLM), which is a proven method to eliminate self-limiting beliefs that stop us from achieving our goals as adults. Developed by Morty Lefkoe some 23 years ago, his method has helped over 12,000 people eliminate self-defeating beliefs. This information is vital for all parents to understand, in how and when these beliefs are developed. Guess where? Right, childhood!
Finding Positives And Removing Negatives New York Times (pdf)
Eliminating Fears: An Intervention that Permanently Eliminates the Fear of Public Speaking Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (pdf)
Behavior Change Doesn’t Have To Be Difficult California Psychologist (pdf)
The Three Best Ways Of Getting Rid Of Public Speaking Fears (html)
The following are various interesting articles that cover scientific studies regarding children and wellbeing.
Get Your Brain Into Shape. Wall Street Journal 1/10/2003
Transcendental Meditation in the Classroom. Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy
Science Says, “When it Comes to Growing Young Minds, it’s Better to Get it Right the First Time, than to Try to Fix it Later.” Harvard E.D. News Magazine
