The Happiness Project

Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun Paperback | 320 pages Self-Help / Personal Growth / Happiness Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough on the things that really matter.” In danger of wasting her days—always yearning for something more, waiting for problems to miraculously solve themselves—she realized her life wasn’t going to change unless she did something about it.