I’ve been playing with the idea of starting a personal Happiness Project.  I learned a little about the process from Ted Talks and articles written by Gretchen Rubin https://gretchenrubin.com/ .  In a nutshell the project aims to help develop a habit for focusing on things that promote personal happiness.  Over coffee my wife and I discussed the basic building blocks of what happiness means to each of us.  I quickly became aware that each of us has widely different ideas about what we each felt are the base level assumptions required for a happier life.  She had lots of suggestions to share for what would make me a happier person…but had difficulty coming up with 10 items for herself.  This category of my blog will be dedicate to capturing the things I discover during the project which promote a happier life for me.

Note: The timing for this project seems right as I am just about a month into retirement.  I can’t imagine being happier than I am right now but realize that like anything in life that is valuable tastes sweeter when you at it.  I spun around in circles trying to figure out how to get started …created a Happiness category on my blog space then took the dog for a walk along the boardwalk downtown to get motivation.

 

On our walk I stopped to peek through the new LittleFreeLibrary.org  box near the harbor masters station house.  Staring me straight in the face was this book ….which I took as a sign to get started (AKA ….kick in the butt) … I guess happiness is out there waiting for us…we just need to start working on it… I took the book and will be sure to return it once I look it through… in case there is some other happiness project wannabe that needs a push…