Gretchen Rubin's Happiness Project

Gretchen Rubin had a sudden realization one rainy day as she rode a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." At that moment, she came to the decision to dedicate a year to her happiness. Thus began the Happiness project. She plunged into the principles established by all sorts of experts, from Epicurus to Thoreau to Oprah to Martin Seligman to the Dalai Lama to see which helped her become a happier person and which didn't.
In planning her Happiness Project, Rubin turned to the wisdom of the ages, scientific knowledge, and lessons from pop culture all aimed at creating happiness. She uses this book to set down her adventures and discoveries along the way. She learned a number of things, including that novelty and challenge are important sources of happiness, that while perhaps money can’t completely buy happiness it can help in its purchase when it is spent with fore thought, that ordering and organizing her external environment contributed to a sense of inner peace, that treating herself could make her feel worse, that venting negative emotions didn’t get rid of them, and that sometimes it was the smallest of changes that could make the largest differences in her world and her happiness.
Rubin didn’t want to uproot herself to move
Rubin concluded her book with the confirmation that what she had done had just underscored what she had known all along, primarily that happiness was there she just had to reach for it and that she could change her life through resolutions that didn’t require changing everything about her