The Mood Elevator
The Mood Elevator
Take Charge of Your Feelings, Become a Better You
Edition: 1
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 22 August, 2017
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Positive psychology and organizational guru Larry Senn shows readers how allowing room for your mood swings rather than suppressing them can lead you to be more successful and happy.
Mood swings are a common, almost universal experience-especially in a world as full of unpredictable, uncontrollable changes and chances as ours. People know they have good and bad moods, but most have never thought of them as an emotional elevator they ride and can have influence over. Perhaps they've even tried to suppress their moods and refuse to acknowledge the ride at all.
Larry Senn implores us to take our changing moods seriously and ride the mood elevator, which can help us all be more effective leaders and greatly impact our personal lives. At the top floors, we find ourselves to be grateful, wise, creative, resourceful, and hopeful. At the bottom, we can be depressed, angry, stressed, judgmental, and defensive. The Mood Elevator provides a framework and a series of simple pointers and illustrative stories that help us see that without taking the full ride, we can't access the top floor moods without remembering that we have to build up from the bottom.
The Mood Elevator shows us that we create our own moods through our own thinking and, in the end, have control over the direction we head. The book provides simple steps for readers to quickly change their thinking to create better emotional states based on their environments.
Mood swings are a common, almost universal experience-especially in a world as full of unpredictable, uncontrollable changes and chances as ours. People know they have good and bad moods, but most have never thought of them as an emotional elevator they ride and can have influence over. Perhaps they've even tried to suppress their moods and refuse to acknowledge the ride at all.
Larry Senn implores us to take our changing moods seriously and ride the mood elevator, which can help us all be more effective leaders and greatly impact our personal lives. At the top floors, we find ourselves to be grateful, wise, creative, resourceful, and hopeful. At the bottom, we can be depressed, angry, stressed, judgmental, and defensive. The Mood Elevator provides a framework and a series of simple pointers and illustrative stories that help us see that without taking the full ride, we can't access the top floor moods without remembering that we have to build up from the bottom.
The Mood Elevator shows us that we create our own moods through our own thinking and, in the end, have control over the direction we head. The book provides simple steps for readers to quickly change their thinking to create better emotional states based on their environments.
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Positive psychology and organizational guru Larry Senn shows readers how allowing room for your mood swings rather than suppressing them can lead you to be more successful and happy.
Mood swings are a common, almost universal experience-especially in a world as full of unpredictable, uncontrollable changes and chances as ours. People know they have good and bad moods, but most have never thought of them as an emotional elevator they ride and can have influence over. Perhaps they've even tried to suppress their moods and refuse to acknowledge the ride at all.
Larry Senn implores us to take our changing moods seriously and ride the mood elevator, which can help us all be more effective leaders and greatly impact our personal lives. At the top floors, we find ourselves to be grateful, wise, creative, resourceful, and hopeful. At the bottom, we can be depressed, angry, stressed, judgmental, and defensive. The Mood Elevator provides a framework and a series of simple pointers and illustrative stories that help us see that without taking the full ride, we can't access the top floor moods without remembering that we have to build up from the bottom.
The Mood Elevator shows us that we create our own moods through our own thinking and, in the end, have control over the direction we head. The book provides simple steps for readers to quickly change their thinking to create better emotional states based on their environments.
Mood swings are a common, almost universal experience-especially in a world as full of unpredictable, uncontrollable changes and chances as ours. People know they have good and bad moods, but most have never thought of them as an emotional elevator they ride and can have influence over. Perhaps they've even tried to suppress their moods and refuse to acknowledge the ride at all.
Larry Senn implores us to take our changing moods seriously and ride the mood elevator, which can help us all be more effective leaders and greatly impact our personal lives. At the top floors, we find ourselves to be grateful, wise, creative, resourceful, and hopeful. At the bottom, we can be depressed, angry, stressed, judgmental, and defensive. The Mood Elevator provides a framework and a series of simple pointers and illustrative stories that help us see that without taking the full ride, we can't access the top floor moods without remembering that we have to build up from the bottom.
The Mood Elevator shows us that we create our own moods through our own thinking and, in the end, have control over the direction we head. The book provides simple steps for readers to quickly change their thinking to create better emotional states based on their environments.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1 The Mood Elevator
- CHAPTER 2 What Drives the Mood Elevator?
- CHAPTER 3 Up the Mood Elevator: The Big Payoffs
- CHAPTER 4 Escaping Unhealthy Normal
- CHAPTER 5 Braking Your Mood Elevator: The Power of Curiosity
- CHAPTER 6 Interrupting Your Pattern
- CHAPTER 7 Feeding the Thoughts You Favor
- CHAPTER 8 Living in Mild Preference
- CHAPTER 9 Shifting Your Set Point: The Wellness Equation
- CHAPTER 10 Quieting Your Mind
- CHAPTER 11 Cultivating Gratitude
- CHAPTER 12 Honoring Our Separate Realities
- CHAPTER 13 Nurturing Faith and Optimism
- CHAPTER 14 Dealing With Your Down Days
- CHAPTER 15 Relationships and the Mood Elevator
- CHAPTER 16 Pointers for Riding the Mood Elevator
- How This Book Came to Be
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Author
Review quote
Praise for The Mood Elevator
"Addressing life's ever-changing emotional pulls, The Mood Elevator is likely to be an engaging and educational read for employees, managers, and senior executives alike....This is a powerful book with intrinsic value that is both a personal self-improvement guide and a manual for enlightened executives who want to run emotionally healthy organizations."
-Barry Silverstein, Foreword Review
Larry Senn and the concepts he teaches, like the Mood Elevator, have had a profound impact on my career, on the success of Yum! Brands around the world, and on me personally.”
-David Novak, former Chairman and CEO, Yum! Brands, and author of Taking People with You
“Larry's tools for teaching leaders how to do the ‘right people things' leaves an indelible mark on the emotional IQ of any business enterprise. The Mood Elevator has become an important part of the nomenclature of the three companies I've run.”
-Mark Frissora, President and CEO, Caesars Entertainment
“This book is the ticket for anyone who wants to spend more time on the top floors of the Mood Elevator. The concept has been invaluable in all walks of life. It helps us work better together as business colleagues but has equal benefit in personal relationships. There is much to be gained from an attitude of gratitude and understanding how to get there. Larry Senn is doing a great service by bringing the Mood Elevator to a larger audience.”
-General Josue “Joe” Robles, Jr., former President and CEO, USAA
“Larry Senn has had a profound influence on my life through elegant yet simple principles, now found in The Mood Elevator. Practice the lessons in The Mood Elevator and the arc of your life will be changed forever-for the better.”
-Dr. Gordon Gee, President, West Virginia University, and former President, The Ohio State University
“The Mood Elevator inspires leaders to live more of life at their best, build better relationships, and create more success.”
-Leslie H. Wexner, Chairman and CEO, L Brands
“Larry's gift of offering simple yet powerful guidance to high happiness and success is masterful. The Mood Elevator tool is helping change lives, organizations, and families-thus, our world. I invite all leaders interested in upping their organization's mood and impact to read The Mood Elevator.”
-Vance Caesar, PhD, coauthor of The High Achiever's Guide to Happiness and author of Uncommon Career Success
“As his personal physician for decades, I know that Larry has been living the principles of the Mood Elevator and that this has resulted in his phenomenal cardiovascular and mental health. The principles of the Mood Elevator regarding living a balanced life emotionally and physically are cornerstones of cardiovascular risk reduction, as Larry has illustrated personally.”
-Jay A. Johnson, MD, FACC, board-certified cardiologist and Attending Staff, Stanford University Medical Center
“The Mood Elevator is an engaging lift into the deeper aspects of ourselves and the richest parts of our lives. Through his immense personal and corporate experience, Larry Senn shares practical wisdom on how to enhance our success in business, relationships, health, and everyday living.”
-Rev. Joshua Reeves
“The Mood Elevator is the best thinking and guidance I have ever read on healthy living for individuals and healthy cultures for organizations. The tools are being used and embraced in our organization and we are experiencing remarkable results.”
-Gary Shorb, former CEO, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
“It is an amazing book that elevates your moods to the highest levels and unlocks your potential to achieve all-around success in your life. I wish I had this book long ago.”
-Professor M. S. Rao, international leadership expert
“Once again, Larry Senn has written a book that is simple to understand but has profound implications on how we interact. He makes the point that we are in control of our mood. I highly recommend this book.”
-Tom Voss, former Chairman, President, and CEO, Ameren Corporation
“The book is brilliant! Growing up, the book that influenced me perhaps more than any was Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. This is really like the modern-day version of Think and Grow Rich . . . the concept that our thinking creates our feelings makes us realize what control we have. Great stories.”
-Robert Reiss, host of The CEO Show
"Addressing life's ever-changing emotional pulls, The Mood Elevator is likely to be an engaging and educational read for employees, managers, and senior executives alike....This is a powerful book with intrinsic value that is both a personal self-improvement guide and a manual for enlightened executives who want to run emotionally healthy organizations."
-Barry Silverstein, Foreword Review
Larry Senn and the concepts he teaches, like the Mood Elevator, have had a profound impact on my career, on the success of Yum! Brands around the world, and on me personally.”
-David Novak, former Chairman and CEO, Yum! Brands, and author of Taking People with You
“Larry's tools for teaching leaders how to do the ‘right people things' leaves an indelible mark on the emotional IQ of any business enterprise. The Mood Elevator has become an important part of the nomenclature of the three companies I've run.”
-Mark Frissora, President and CEO, Caesars Entertainment
“This book is the ticket for anyone who wants to spend more time on the top floors of the Mood Elevator. The concept has been invaluable in all walks of life. It helps us work better together as business colleagues but has equal benefit in personal relationships. There is much to be gained from an attitude of gratitude and understanding how to get there. Larry Senn is doing a great service by bringing the Mood Elevator to a larger audience.”
-General Josue “Joe” Robles, Jr., former President and CEO, USAA
“Larry Senn has had a profound influence on my life through elegant yet simple principles, now found in The Mood Elevator. Practice the lessons in The Mood Elevator and the arc of your life will be changed forever-for the better.”
-Dr. Gordon Gee, President, West Virginia University, and former President, The Ohio State University
“The Mood Elevator inspires leaders to live more of life at their best, build better relationships, and create more success.”
-Leslie H. Wexner, Chairman and CEO, L Brands
“Larry's gift of offering simple yet powerful guidance to high happiness and success is masterful. The Mood Elevator tool is helping change lives, organizations, and families-thus, our world. I invite all leaders interested in upping their organization's mood and impact to read The Mood Elevator.”
-Vance Caesar, PhD, coauthor of The High Achiever's Guide to Happiness and author of Uncommon Career Success
“As his personal physician for decades, I know that Larry has been living the principles of the Mood Elevator and that this has resulted in his phenomenal cardiovascular and mental health. The principles of the Mood Elevator regarding living a balanced life emotionally and physically are cornerstones of cardiovascular risk reduction, as Larry has illustrated personally.”
-Jay A. Johnson, MD, FACC, board-certified cardiologist and Attending Staff, Stanford University Medical Center
“The Mood Elevator is an engaging lift into the deeper aspects of ourselves and the richest parts of our lives. Through his immense personal and corporate experience, Larry Senn shares practical wisdom on how to enhance our success in business, relationships, health, and everyday living.”
-Rev. Joshua Reeves
“The Mood Elevator is the best thinking and guidance I have ever read on healthy living for individuals and healthy cultures for organizations. The tools are being used and embraced in our organization and we are experiencing remarkable results.”
-Gary Shorb, former CEO, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
“It is an amazing book that elevates your moods to the highest levels and unlocks your potential to achieve all-around success in your life. I wish I had this book long ago.”
-Professor M. S. Rao, international leadership expert
“Once again, Larry Senn has written a book that is simple to understand but has profound implications on how we interact. He makes the point that we are in control of our mood. I highly recommend this book.”
-Tom Voss, former Chairman, President, and CEO, Ameren Corporation
“The book is brilliant! Growing up, the book that influenced me perhaps more than any was Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. This is really like the modern-day version of Think and Grow Rich . . . the concept that our thinking creates our feelings makes us realize what control we have. Great stories.”
-Robert Reiss, host of The CEO Show
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