After a week or so of more sleep, she began to feel a real difference. She tried getting ready for bed well before her bedtime and even forced sleep with sedatives such as Ambien when nothing else worked. So, she stopped doing activities such as paying bills, answering emails and watching TV in bed. Easier said than done but, as Rubin realized, turning off the lights (all the lights!) helps. “I know that when I feel energetic,” she writes, “I find it much easier to behave in ways that make me happy.” So, for January, she wrote down five resolutions – two for her physical energy, two for her mental vigor, and one that combines both. Rubin decided to start her year of happiness by focusing on energy and vitality. Get ready to hear it! January: Boost energy (vitality) “The Happiness Project” tells that story. Then came the challenging part: keeping the resolutions. Not long after, she began to identify the things that brought her joy, satisfaction, and engagement and made twelve sets of resolutions – each one designed to boost her happiness in a separate sphere of life, and each one reserved for a different month of the year. “Well,” she sighed, “I want to be happy.” “What do I want from life, anyway?” she asked herself. One April morning, while staring out the blurry rain-splattered window of a city bus, American blogger and bestselling author Gretchen Rubin had a sudden realization: she was in danger of wasting her life.
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