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 by Gretchen Rubin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I just finished reading this book. I did not think I was going to like it, and I’ve had it in my “to be read” queue for almost a year just because I could not muster up the interest in it – long live procrastination…
But I’ve been feeling a bit down lately, so last night when I looked through my Kindle app for something to read this caught my eye. From the first couple of pages, I could tell this would be a book for me.
It is all about how you have so many things you want to do that makes you happy, but they sometimes get viewed as insignificant and hidden behind the day-to-day activities instead of being a core part of them.
The experiment of trying different things throughout the year and being the best person you can be to focus your own happiness (which in turn should make those around you happier) is told in an interesting way and I kept coming back to it to read a few pages. I think I bookmarked the whole January chapter…
I love that she draws in other literature but relates it to her own life. The later chapters also make the book feel more relevant to me, as she is definitely not a super-human who have found the one right way, but lots of little things that work for her life.
I will definitely try to apply some of the techniques Rubin mentions – first the January resolutions of going to bed earlier, just cleaning up for a minute and put things in their proper place… and then there is the closet…
