Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
Crown Archetype
September 2012
On Sale: September 4, 2012
288 pages ISBN: 0307886786 EAN: 9780307886781 Kindle: B0076P81GM Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times
bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin
embarks on a new project to make home a happier
place.
One Sunday afternoon, as she
unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave
of homesickness. Homesick—why? She was standing right in her
own kitchen. She felt homesick, she realized, with love for
home itself. “Of all the elements of a happy life,” she
thought, “my home is the most important.” In a flash, she
decided to undertake a new happiness project, and this time,
to focus on home.
And what did she want from her
home? A place that calmed her, and energized her. A place
that, by making her feel safe, would free her to take risks.
Also, while Rubin wanted to be happier at home, she wanted
to appreciate how much happiness was there
already.
So, starting in September (the new
January), Rubin dedicated a school year—September through
May—to making her home a place of greater simplicity,
comfort, and love.
In The Happiness
Project, she worked out general theories of happiness.
Here she goes deeper on factors that matter for home, such
as possessions, marriage, time, and parenthood. How can she
control the cubicle in her pocket? How might she spotlight
her family’s treasured possessions? And it really was time
to replace that dud toaster.
Each month, Rubin
tackles a different theme as she experiments with concrete,
manageable resolutions—and this time, she coaxes her family
to try some resolutions, as well.
With
her signature blend of memoir, science, philosophy, and
experimentation, Rubin’s passion for her subject jumps off
the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will
inspire readers to find more happiness in their own lives.