A lonesome lady named Gretchen Rubin made the decision to launch a new happiness project that would centre on her homestead. She wanted to create an environment that’s both engaging and soothing so that she could take risks and appreciate the joys that were already there.
She committed to transforming her house for a school year, starting in September. The Happiness Project, her work on general ideas of happiness, delves into aspects of the house, such as time, marriage, parenting, and belongings.
Rubin addresses new issues monthly, experimenting with practical commitments and even persuading her family to make certain resolutions. Her unique combination of experiments, science, philosophy, and personal experiences will inspire readers to find more pleasure in their lives.
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About the Author
One of today’s most significant and perceptive observers of pleasure and human nature is Gretchen Rubin.
Her best-selling books include THE HAPPINESS PROJECT, which was the #1 New York Times bestseller, as well as BETTER THAN BEFORE, HAPPIER AT HOME, THE FOUR TENDENCIES, and OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM. Living in Five Sensations is her most recent book.
She hosts the well-known and acclaimed podcast “Happier with Gretchen Rubin,” in which she and her sister, co-host Elizabeth Craft, discuss methods and ideas for brightening life. As The Happiness Project’s creator, she has contributed to the development of creative items that others may utilise in their own happiness initiatives.
She has been featured on Jeopardy, interviewed by Oprah, walked arm in arm with the Dalai Lama, had her work included in a medical magazine, and been featured in the New Yorker. She has also had dinner with Nobel Prize laureate Daniel Kahneman.
After beginning her legal career, Gretchen Rubin discovered her passion for writing while working as a clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the Supreme Court. She resides in New York City with her family, having grown up in Kansas City.
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Review
Gretchen Rubin demonstrates how to bring enjoyment, pleasure, and harmony to your home life in Happier at Home with her signature blend of charming appeal, careful research, and wise counsel. I was unable to put this book down, as is typical of Rubin’s writing.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, written by Susan Cain, New York Times #1 book
Gretchen Rubin’s creative strategy for fostering a more contented home life is both educational and inspirational. Happier At Home is a profound and insightful manual for anybody looking to find happiness.
The best-selling author of WILD, Cheryl Strayed
Gretchen Rubin demonstrates how minor adjustments may have a significant impact on our daily happiness in her incredibly perceptive book Happier at Home. What better location than our own homes to begin? — Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup: Reimagine Your Way of Earning a Living, Do What You Love, and Build a New Future, and The Art of Non-Conformity
From “cultivating a shrine” to “threshold rituals,” Happier at Home has increased my level of happiness. It’s a unique book that encourages self-improvement and transports you to the thoughts of great philosophers throughout history. I appreciate the work of Gretchen Rubin.
Brown, Brené, Ph.D. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way we Live, Love, Parent, and Lead is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book.
Whether we live in the city or the suburbs, with parents or kids, with partners, roommates, or alone, a happy home is the elusive ideal we all aspire to. Gretchen Rubin cleverly demonstrates in Happier at Home how to design a space that welcomes the people and things that bring us comfort, peace, and happiness.
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Harold Coben, Six Years and Stay Close’s best-selling author
Fans of self-help, rejoice. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin is surpassed in quality by a new book that was just released. Happier at Home is the title of her most recent book. When you cross off each of Rubin’s warm, practical, and charming suggestions one by one, they become little. All of the advice, however, adds up to a huge bundle of joy. There are treasures in this book for every mother.
The Happiness Project is commended.
After reading Gretchen Rubin’s account of a year spent seeking fulfilment, you’ll want to begin your own happiness project and enlist the help of your loved ones. This is one of the few books that will make you ponder and grin at the same time, frequently at the same time.
Daniel H. Pink, Drive’s best-selling author
A friendly, approachable, and compulsively readable narrative that will not only make you want to start your own happiness project but will also make you want to invite Rubin out for a cup of coffee.
The Union-Tribune of San Diego
For people who often despise the self-help genre, Rubin’s book is a welcome change of pace. incisively written and thoroughly researched.
The Plain Dealer of Cleveland
The Happiness Project made me happier by just reading it.
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Bookpage
An insightful, heart-pounding book…plenty of candid, open insights into [Rubin’s] everyday existence interspersed with frequent bursts of laughter.
Christian Science Monitor
The Happiness Project can provide you with the resources to discover enduring fulfilment, regardless of how much time you invest—a day or a year.”
Psychology Today
The book is simply irresistible due to Gretchen’s captivating voice, amazing stories, and first-person perspective”.
Weird Ideas That Work author Bob Sutton, professor at Stanford
Gretchen Rubin’s book, which is a cross between the Dalai Lama’s The Art of Happiness and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, is one that readers will return to time and time again as they work to achieve their own happiness goals. It is expertly supported by insights from a wide range of sources, including psychologists, novelists, poets, and philosophers.
The How of Happiness author Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Summary
Gretchen Rubin wrote this book before Better Than Before (ha!) and The Four Tendencies, and it was her second book following The Happiness Project. Gretchen recognised that some things needed to alter at home to make it the joyful place she recalled when she suddenly felt homesick, despite the fact that she was standing in her own kitchen.
She then committed to enhancing her family’s and her own happiness for nine months, making one adjustment at a time.
She examined the most crucial elements of a cosy house, including time, belongings, motherhood, marriage, and family, while going over many subjects. She discovered that making small adjustments is more than enough to become happier at home and to spread joy like a contagious disease everywhere you go.