I read a thought provoking book earlier this year called The Happiness Project by an author called Gretchen Rubin and the premis behind the project appealed to me and I kept meaning to have a go at setting some "happiness resolutions" myself but I'm the Queen of all or nothing and I just never quite got around to it.
To give you an idea of what the book was about then I have copied the Amazon blurb below
"Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany. One rainy afternoon on a city bus, she realized that she wasn't as happy as she could be. 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. On January 1, she embarked on her Happiness Project, and each month she pursued a different set of resolutions: to get more sleep, quit nagging her husband, sing in the morning to her two young daughters, start a blog, imitate a spiritual master, keep a one-sentence journal. She immersed herself in everything from classical philosophy to contemporary psychology to see what worked for her-and what didn't. Illuminating yet entertaining, profound yet compulsively readable, "The Happiness Project" is one of the most thoughtful and prescriptive works on happiness to have emerged from the recent explosion of interest in the subject. Filled with practical advice, sharp insight, charm, and humour, her story will inspire readers to navigate their own paths to happiness."
There is a Happiness Project Toolbox website http://www.happinessprojecttoolbox.com and I finally got around to joining it today
For now then my only resolution is to blog more or less everyday until I get my head around some ideas and plan which direction I would like to take
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