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<p align="justify">For April, my book club decided to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Project-Morning-Aristotle-Generally-ebook/dp/B002VJ9HRK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397502833&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=happiness+project">The Happiness Project</a>. I had heard a lot of really great things about it, so I was really excited to read this book. Here’s a little about it: </p>
<p align="justify"><em>One rainy afternoon, while riding a city bus, Gretchen Rubin asked herself, “What do I want from life, anyway?” She answered, “I want to be happy”—yet she spent no time thinking about her happiness. In a flash, she decided to dedicate a year to a happiness project. The result? One of the most thoughtful and engaging works on happiness to have emerged from the recent explosion of interest in the subject.</em> </p>
<p align="justify"><em>The Happiness Project synthesizes the wisdom of the ages with current scientific research, as Rubin brings readers along on her year to greater happiness.</em> </p>
<p align="justify">I was so excited to get started on this. Anything that can make me happy, keep me happy and generally boost my attitude, I am all for it! The first couple chapters I was really into it. After that, I sort of felt like “ok, I got it already.” I found that I was skimming and the only reading the chapters or subchapters that were interesting to me or that may be relevant for me.  </p>
<p align="justify">I don’t think I’m going to be starting my own happiness project, but I am glad I read the book and I got some good ideas of some general ways to be happier that I hadn’t thought about before.  </p>
<p align="justify">Happy reading! </p>
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{"id":8324,"date":"2014-04-14T14:29:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T19:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andihays.net\/wordpress\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2014-04-14T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T19:29:57","slug":"the-happiness-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andihays.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/14\/the-happiness-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happiness Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/andihays.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/happinessproject-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"happinessproject (1)\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"happinessproject (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/andihays.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/happinessproject-1_thumb.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"480\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">For April, my book club decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Happiness-Project-Morning-Aristotle-Generally-ebook\/dp\/B002VJ9HRK\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1397502833&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=happiness+project\">The Happiness Project<\/a>. I had heard a lot of really great things about it, so I was really excited to read this book. Here\u2019s a little about it: <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>One rainy afternoon, while riding a city bus, Gretchen Rubin asked herself, \u201cWhat do I want from life, anyway?\u201d She answered, \u201cI want to be happy\u201d\u2014yet she spent no time thinking about her happiness. In a flash, she decided to dedicate a year to a happiness project. The result? One of the most thoughtful and engaging works on happiness to have emerged from the recent explosion of interest in the subject.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>The Happiness Project synthesizes the wisdom of the ages with current scientific research, as Rubin brings readers along on her year to greater happiness.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I was so excited to get started on this. Anything that can make me happy, keep me happy and generally boost my attitude, I am all for it! The first couple chapters I was really into it. After that, I sort of felt like \u201cok, I got it already.\u201d I found that I was skimming and the only reading the chapters or subchapters that were interesting to me or that may be relevant for me.  <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to be starting my own happiness project, but I am glad I read the book and I got some good ideas of some general ways to be happier that I hadn\u2019t thought about before.  <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Happy reading! <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/andihays.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Andi_2_0_thumb_thumb14.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andi_2_0_thumb_thumb1\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Andi_2_0_thumb_thumb1\" src=\"http:\/\/andihays.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Andi_2_0_thumb_thumb1_thumb4.png\" width=\"104\" height=\"48\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Andi","author_link":"http:\/\/andihays.net\/wordpress\/author\/andi\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"http:\/\/andihays.net\/wordpress\/category\/books\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Books<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"For April, my book club decided to The Happiness Project. 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