Ikigai teacher friends and a loving family

friends and a loving family

With a dash of sparkling humour and a flourish of inspiration

Accompanied by illuminating and authoritative text

the sea (fish)

So many of us let fear and self-doubt dictate our lives in big and small ways-keeping us from making a new friend or preventing us from going back to school or feeling happy or simply being our best selves

Ikigai teacher friends and a loving familyBring meaning and joy to all your days with this internationally best selling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai the happiness of always being busy as revealed by the daily habits of the worlds longest living people. Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years. (Japanese proverb) According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the worlds longest