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As someone who writes about happiness, I’m often challenged to answer these three questions: 1. How do I define “happiness,” anyway? 2. Instead of happiness, which is fleeting/deceptive/egotistical/illusory, isn’t the real goal to achieve joy/contentment/satisfaction/peace/self-realization or [fill in the blank]? 3. How can we agree on what it means to achieve these states? What I mean by happiness might not …
Today, February 2, is Groundhog Day. My associations with this quasi-holiday are less about a groundhog’s prediction about the beginning of spring, and more about the movie Groundhog Day. In the movie, Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) is a cranky, cynical weatherman who, while on assignment covering the annual Groundhog Day Festival, finds himself re-living the same day, over …
“It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.” –Seneca * Interested in starting your own happiness project? If you’d like to take a look at my personal Resolutions Chart, for inspiration, just email me at grubin, then the “at” sign, then gretchenrubin dot com. (Sorry about writing it in …
