The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”

Gretchen Rubin – The Happiness Project

What an enlightening, motivating – yet challenging in the idea of adoption – text this is. I should rightfully think lesser of this book for the INSANE amount of time that it took me to finish it, but with all the relevant ideas and copious amounts of research that Gretchen Rubin includes, I just can’t do it.

This book is different than anything I have read before and I really, really like it. I now need to acquire and read the rest of Rubin’s books.

… in hindsight, I wonder if this text started my subconscious on a quest of happiness attainment, through the development of this blog? Hmmm, something to ponder at a later date.

The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun makes you want to adopt your own happiness project. It demonstrates how little changes in your life can warrant large rewards. And isn’t that what I have been saying all along?? .. or, at least what I keep trying to say through my messaging on this blog. That slowly working toward differences in your life – whether they be mindful and emotionally charged differences like meditation; physical differences, such as walking a bit more during the course of the day; or cognitive differences, like picking up a book [such as this one] and growing your brain, make a decision and plot a forward-moving course to becoming happier. And this book is such a perfect example of this.

One point I will concede on, however, is that this book does exhibit the exhaustive amount of mental thought that would be required in order to see the project through. (A project as large as Rubin’s undertaking). At least, until the resolutions became habits. Which comically enough, is the next book that I will read written by her (Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Every Day Lives). It looks as though she has all the bases covered.