Gretchen Rubin is a best-selling writer, her new book is The Happiness Project.

The Happiness Challenge

  • Know yourself.
  • Let it go.
  • Act the way I want to feel.
  • Do it now.
  • Be polite and be fair.
  • Enjoy the process.
  • Spend out.
  • Identify the problem.
  • Lighten up.
  • Do what ought to be done.
  • No calculation.
  • There is only love.
  • Aim higher
  • Enjoy the fun of failure
  • Ask for help – “When the student is ready, the teacher appears”
  • Beware of drift

(www.happiness-project.com)

Four Splendid Truths

  1. To be happier, you have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.
  2. One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy; One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.
  3. The days are long, but the years are short.
  4. You’re not happy unless you think you’re happy.