
Rubin also found out that one of the best ways to lift your mood and boost your mental energy is to engineer an easy success like tackling a long-delayed chore.

It’s been proven that light is good for the psyche and stimulates serotonin and dopamine production, two hormones responsible for feelings of happiness. Outdoor activities raise our energy level and help us improve our thinking. That included more sleep, more exercise, mental and physical decluttering. She decided to start the year by focusing on energy with the reasoning that more vitality will make it easier to stick to a resolution. Use Gretchen’s 12-month happiness project as an inspiration to create your own personal one. By December, you’d be scoring yourself on the whole year’s worth of resolutions. In February, add the next set of resolutions to the January set. For the first month, attempt only January’s resolution. Twelve months in the year provide twelve slots to fill. Then, make resolutions that include concrete actions that will boost your happiness, and finally, keep your resolutions. Identify what brings you joy, satisfaction, and engagement. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.” – Gretchen Rubin He seems self-sufficient he becomes a cushion for others.

No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly light-hearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. “The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. On her weekly podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, she discusses good habits and happiness with her sister Elizabeth Craft, a Los Angeles-based television writer. On her daily blog,, she reports on her adventures in pursuit of habits and happiness.

Rubin’s books have sold more than two million print and online copies worldwide in over thirty languages. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Better Than Before, Happier at Home, and The Happiness Project. Gretchen Rubin is a writer on subjects of habits, happiness, and human nature. The Happiness Project summarizes the tasks that worked for her so you can also follow your own happiness project. For each month, she allocated herself tasks to engage with that she believed would make her happier. Therefore, as a form of scientific research, she spent a whole year trying to maximize her degree of happiness. The Happiness Project covers a year of Gretchen Rubin’s pursuit of what she wants to obtain from life: happiness. If you don’t already have the book, order the book or get the audiobook for free on Amazon to learn the juicy details. Has The Happiness Project been gathering dust on your bookshelf? Instead, learn some of the key ideas now.
