This book is really motivating. I started my own happiness project, and it's really been inspiring and helpful. I really like how Rubin admits when she has been less than perfect and shows that she's human like the rest of us.I also really like that she reviews what worked for her and lets go of ...
I loved Gretchen Rubin's first book 'The Happiness Project'. 'Happier at Home', however, is too much like a rinse & repeat of the earlier book. I'd recommend it, but it didn't inspire me quite the way the previous book did, largely because it was simply going over old ground. It didn't feel new. ...
Take time to be silly. Go off the path. Start a collection. May, the beginning of springtime, seemed like the right time to work on my play—that is, the activities I did in my free time because I wanted to do them, for their own sake, for my own r...
—Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography It’s human nature: we seek loopholes. Even when we’re deeply committed to a good habit, even when we enjoy that habit, we’re often seeking possible justifications to excuse ourselves from it … just this once. With a little ingenuity, there’s a loophole for every ...