The Happiness Project

Yesterday I was up at 4am to get ready and leave for work, so I was very tired when I wrote my first post. Silly me, I forgot to mention the very first piece of inspiration that made me want to be happier and live my life to its fullest. The Happiness Project is a novel written by Gretchen Rubin and it is an amazing read. I read this book a few months ago and it opened my eyes to some aspects of my life that I want to change and improve on in order to ultimately, be happier (not that I am not happy now, because I am!). Here is a link to Gretchen Rubin's website about her Happiness Project, I suggest taking a peak. In a way, this blog is the beginning of my happiness project. Because of the huge influence this book has had on my decision to start the process of becoming happier myself and living life to its fullest I am going to add another page to my blog titled My Happiness Project where I will describe my journey to improving different aspects of my life, my struggles, tips, and accomplishments. 

I got home from work about 40 min ago and I made myself a coffee and started to watch a new show I wanted to "try out" called The Revolution. As I was watching (although a fairly good show) I started to drift off. I tend to do this EVERY day when I get home from work. I will fall asleep on the couch for about an hour. Well it's time to stop this. I have MANY things I can do with my time and I don't need the extra sleep as I have a great sleep every night. So, I pulled out my laptop and here I am writing my second blog post :) I am already feeling more awake and my eyes are no longer struggling to stay open. I saw on a TV show a few weeks ago that a 20 min walk can rejuvenate a person more than a 15 min nap (which has also been said to rejuvenate a person) -- after I am finished writing, and after I have supper in the slow cooker, I am going to bring Rory (our Chocolate Lab) for a walk and see if it will actually wake me up even more. 

I do have a bit more to say on the topic of happiness, but I feel this belongs in my new Happiness Project page so I am going to head over there and create my first post on that page....see you soon!

"You're prettiest when you're happy" - Unknown