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

by Gretchen Rubin

I hope that reading the account of my happiness project will encourage you to start your own. Whenever you read this, and wherever you are, you are in the right place to begin.

Of everything I've ever written, this short paragraph is one of my favorites -- in fact, I've used that last sentence in other books as well. But boy, it took me forever to get the words right, to say exactly what I meant. I wanted to remind readers -- and myself -- that the time is always right for a happiness project. One of the very nicest things anyone has ever said to me was a friend who said, "I've never read a book that made me think so much about myself."