Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project is a memoir of one woman's year long experiment in finding happiness in her life as a result of monthly resolutions. See I'm still on that New Year's Resolution kick. By the way, I've stuck to my one about not buying new books, this one came from the library (and yes I will give it back). I found this one on the cart of books waiting to be reshelved. It intrigued me as I was starting to think about what I wanted to work on in 2011. Remember I'm looking to improve my contentment with life, not necessarily happiness.
Rubin explains that each person's "Happiness Project" will be unique, and to discover and use those components of the project that will work best for you. Many of her resolutions struck a chord with me. However, I'm still struggling with the whole concept of resolutions. Once again I headed to Websters for a definition, resolution is, "the act or process of reducing to simpler form." I liked that definition as what I really wanted to do this year is simplify my life. I want to resolve some of the outstanding "problems" that exist in my life. There are many things I know I should be doing that would make my life a lot easier and less stressful. Why I resist doing these simple tasks I cannot say. Therefore, I resolve to tackle those chores and tasks as they come up, and to stop putting them off, knowing that contentment will follow.
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