Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life

“Order is Heaven’s first law,” wrote Alexander Pope, and one thing that has surprised me is the significance of clutter to happiness. While positive-psychology researchers rarely address

A Little Princess (greatest vindication story ever), The Golden Compass (greatest animal character ever), and Little Women

The Relationship Cure,

Story of a Soul.

I also employed the weapon of convenience by making it easy to behave the way I wanted to behave.

September’s efforts had proved to me that happiness is not having less; happiness is not having more; happiness is wanting what I have.

What am I waiting for? What would I do if I weren’t scared? What steps would make things easier? What would I do if I had all the time and money in the world?

“Your lack of planning is not my emergency.”)

The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self.