First Splendid Truth: To be happy, you need to consider feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

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Your Body Matters.It sounds obvious, but it’s easy to overlook! Get enough sleep, exercise regularly, get some sunshine, go to a doctor if you need to.

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Third Splendid Truth: The days are long, but the years are short.

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Wherever you are, and whenever it is, now is always the right time to begin your Happiness Project.

The Happiness Project By Gretchen Rubin

The Duty of Happiness.“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” –Robert Louis Stevenson.

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According to Gretchen Rubin she found out that her commandments help her most when she review them at least daily, to keep them fresh in her mind, and to do this, it helps to keep the list short and snappy. She suspects that Twelve Commandments is too much. Maybe She only need two, “Be Gretchen” and “There is only love.”

Aim high and fight the urge to be too comprehensive.

Fourth Splendid Truth: You’re not happy unless you think you’re happy.Your Body Matters.

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Know Yourself.You can choose what you do, but you can’t choose what you like to do.To make a happy life, you need to know yourself and acknowledge your own nature. For some people, this is a real challenge.

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Second Splendid Truth: 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.

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Be Gretchen.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.

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Happiness is Other People.Philosophers and scientists agree: a KEY to happiness is strong relationships with other people. Building strong bonds should be one of your top priorities in life.

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Outer Order Contributes to Inner Calm.For most people, making an effort to keep surroundings in decent order really pays off in happiness.

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Want What You Have.Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.

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“This book made me happy in the first five pages.” —AJ Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible Award-winning author Gretchen Rubin is back with a bang, with The Happiness Project. The author of the bestselling 40 Ways to Look at Winston Churchill has produced a work that is “a cross between the Dalai Lama’s The Art of Happiness and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love.” (Sonya Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want) In the vein of Julie and Julia, The Happiness Project describes one person’s year-long attempt to discover what leads to true contentment. Drawing at once on cutting-edge science, classical philosophy, and real-world applicability, Rubin has written an engaging, eminently relatable chronicle of transformation.

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What if you could change your life--without changing your life? Gretchen had a good marriage, two healthy daughters, and work she loved--but one day, stuck on a city bus, she realized that time was flashing by, and she wasn’t thinking enough about the things that really mattered. “I should have a happiness project,” she decided. She spent the next year test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. Each month, she pursued a different set of resolutions: go to sleep earlier, quit nagging, forget about results, or take time to be silly. Bit by bit, she began to appreciate and amplify the happiness that already existed in her life. Written with humour and insight, Gretchen’s story will inspire you to start your own happiness project. Now in a beautiful, expanded edition, Gretchen offers a wealth of new material including happiness paradoxes and practical tips on many daily matters: being a more light-hearted parent, sticking to a fitness routine, getting your sweetheart to do chores without nagging, coping when you forget someone’s name and more.

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