I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit....
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.24.2008 | Living
Of course, being happy at work depends mostly on how much you like your job. But there are also smaller steps that can boost your happiness, as well. ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.17.2008 | Living
Well, September is half over, and I've managed NOT to eat any of my beloved Tasti D-Lite. And it hasn't even been that hard to give it up. How did I g...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.14.2008 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit....
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living
Whatever you might order, and however it might be prepared, it has tons of butter on it.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.10.2008 | Living
"Do good, feel good" is one of the great truths of happiness -- but you may be thinking, "Sure, good deeds would make me happy, but I barely have time...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.07.2008 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit....
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.29.2008 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit....
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.27.2008 | Living
In one of my favorite movies, a quirky documentary called Sherman's March, the documentary maker's former high school teacher tells him, "As people ge...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.20.2008 | Living
Everyone knows that exercise is a KEY element to good health. The trick is keeping yourself motivated to exercise, if you're a person who naturally re...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.16.2008 | Living
By re-framing marginal, disfavored parts of my trip -- like the Newark airport -- so that they were no longer inconveniences, but actually part of the action, I prevented myself from getting aggravated.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.12.2008 | Living
One of my goals for my Happiness Project is to do a better job of learning from experience. How can I do things better, next time? Also, one of my Twe...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.01.2008 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit....
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 07.30.2008 | Living
I find it's much easier for me to get rid of things when I can envision that my things will be better used by someone else.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 07.23.2008 | Living
While reading a biography of English writer Sydney Smith, Hesketh Pearson's The Smith of Smiths, I stumbled across a letter. In 1820, Smith wrote a le...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit....
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 06.02.2008 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit....
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 05.07.2008 | Living
How many times each day do you try to work yourself up to tackle some undesirable task? If you're like me - several. Here are some strategies that I've used.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 04.30.2008 | Living
For many people, pets are an enormous source of happiness. The other day, though, I had a fascinating conversation with a friend about the negative happiness consequence of having pets.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 04.30.2008 | Home
Ancient philosophers and modern scientists agree: the most essential key to happiness is strong relationships with other people. We all have many kin...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home
One of the most interesting and complicated issues within the study of happiness is the relationship between money and happiness. Although some folks ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home
In terms of hours, watching TV is probably the world's most popular pastime. Among Americans, it's the most common free-time activity - for an average...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 04.11.2008 | Living
I think that some objectives are better characterized as resolutions, others, as goals. You hit a goal, you achieve a goal. You keep a resolution.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.30.2008 | Living
I'm away with my family and my in-laws on vacation. We do this every spring, and each time we do it, despite the fact that this place is lovely, I see...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.19.2008 | Living
Show up. Sometimes a friend wants you to show up someplace when you'd really rather not, like a wedding in Topeka. Recognize a command performance, and don't miss it.
David Brooks spoke frankly about the presidential and...
Joe Biden lashed out at Sarah Palin on Wednesday, calling her recent rhetoric...
GREENVILLE, N.C. — After weeks of limited contact with the news media, Republican...
Everyone knows about the dreaded Bradley Effect: the phenomenon that leaves...
Inside the Obama campaign, almost without...
In presidential elections, winning and losing results...
The New York Times harshly criticized the McCain-Palin...
Madonna went on VP candidate "Sarah fucking Paling" at her Madison Square Garden show Monday...
Jim VandeHei and John Harris of The Politico have gone and decreed last night's debate "The worst...
In the past week of campaigning, Sarah Palin's famous...
The view from a hovering...
NEW YORK — A stock market empowered by an emergency interest rate cut...
The newest issue of Men's Health has what is sure to be an illuminating...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.28.2008 | Living