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I can credit Gretchen for that–one of her monthly resolutions was to “aim higher” in regards to her work, and she started her blog as a part of that. Much of this book caused me to contemplate my own life and how just little changes in my own attitude could make a difference in how I “feel.” It also caused me to step back and look at my blogging, and finally, to declare it an okay thing for me to spend my time on. It’s mostly about a grand experiment in behavior modifiction, but this one worked. Instead, it’s one woman’s attempt to apply sometimes esoteric ideas to her own real life. This is not a dry and dusty tome of research and statistics, though. Her research led her to such disparate authors as Gandhi and Benjamin Franklin, Joan Didion and Victor Frankl. She based her goals on her extensive reading about happiness.

She had very specific goals for each month of the year, and each goal was carefully annotated on her Resolutions Chart. This was no haphazard experiment, though. Gretchen Rubin, a lawyer-turned-writer, spent a year of her life trying (and succeeding at) improving her overall sense of happiness and contentment. I’m a project-oriented person, although often my projects never get off the ground.

This is the first such book I’ve read, but I have to say I like the genre.

😉 (Does anyone else do this?) The Happiness Project turned out to be the perfect book for just such a task.Īfter beginning this book, I learned that it is a project memoir–a book in which the author has undertaken a project and written about his or her experience in accomplishing the project. I took it home–after all, I needed a mental diversion from the hard work of reading A Tale of Two Cities. Its brightly colored cover caught my eye, and I was intrigued by the subtitle: Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. One of my libraries has the new juvenile and young adult books displayed face forward on a display close to the circulation desk this is where I spied The Happiness Project, with its mis-labeled spine. I frequent a couple of libraries, and I always spend far more time in the children’s departments of each library than I do in the adult sections. I picked up The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin because of a mistake in shelving at the library, believe it or not.