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

I were looking back at this decision, five years from now, what will I wish I’d done?

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

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends.” That’s

Here was a shelf of nothing but Harry Potter, here, my worn copies of the Narnia books, there, my beloved Little House books (Santa Claus brought me one volume each Christmas for nine years). The Elizabeth Enright and Edward Eager books I’d read so many times. Mary Stoltz, who didn’t get the attention she deserved. Streatfield, Barrie, Canfield, Co

neglected possessions made me feel guilty and overwhelmed.

Story of a Soul.

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

168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think, Laura Vanderkam