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 07.12.2008 | Living
Until I started my Happiness Project, I didn't think much about rituals and whether they made me happy. But when I reflected on them, I realized that...
Prevention | Nancy Kalish | Posted 07.10.2008 | Living
Joie de vivre. We all know people whose engagement with life can only be described as joyful. Fittingly, nature rewards these happy-go-lucky types: Be...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 07.10.2008 | Living
I'm a praise junkie. I really, really need those gold stars. I know I've got to get over it. One of my most important happiness-project resolutions is...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 07.05.2008 | 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 07.03.2008 | Living
A while back, I read a New York magazine article by Katie Roiphe, "The Great Escape", in which Roiphe discusses her friends' reaction to the news of h...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 06.28.2008 | 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....
Prevention | Alisa Bauman | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living
Daniel Gilbert, PhD, a Harvard psychologist, says that Americans do a tremendous amount of "miswanting." We keep wanting things that will never make u...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 06.26.2008 | Living
We've all had to start conversations that we dreaded having - everything from asking for a raise to asking for a divorce to asking for help with the l...
Karen Salmansohn | Posted 06.21.2008 | Living
Have I got your attention? What I mean by the above: Try conscious acts of kindness with the people you already know and love! One of the top secret...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 06.17.2008 | Living
YOUR Happiness Project: Don't say it. I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you should have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, bu...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 06.14.2008 | 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 06.12.2008 | Living
You can make yourself happier - and this doesn't have to be a long-term ambition. Over the long term, habits like getting enough sleep, exercising re...
Karen Salmansohn | Posted 06.07.2008 | Living
I recently learned a funny and inspiring Italian joke while in Paris -- which I'm excited to share. How did I come about an Italian joke in Paris? ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living
I just read a fascinating book, The Levity Effect, by Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher. It's about how "levity" can transform the workplace. They ...
Psychology Today | Kathleen McGowan | Posted 04.30.2008 | Living
Personality researchers have begun looking more closely at the smaller ways we can and do change. Positive psychologists, who investigate human talent...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 04.18.2008 | 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.
O Magazine | Gabrielle LeBlanc | Posted 04.11.2008 | Living
They find their most golden self. Picture happiness. What do you see? A peaceful soul sitting in a field of daisies appreciating the moment? That kind...
Time | Laura Blue | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Though most of us spend a lifetime pursuing happiness, new research is showing that that goal may be largely out of our control. Two new studies this ...
Time | Tiffany Sharples | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
If you think you can predict what you will like, think again. When people try to estimate how much they will enjoy a future experience, they are depen...
Sharon Melnick | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
When my clients "get out of their own way" and increase their ability to be grateful, they report immediate and noticeable increases in positive energy and in the feeling "life is good".
David Allen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
I'm often asked "Are we really living in a different world than the 'old days?'" Is there something uniquely stressful about the world as we're experi...
Ode Magazine | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
The world is becoming One. But the game is being played according to rules set by the West. Where colonialism ultimately failed at running the world, ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 07.19.2008 | Living