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Happier at home : kiss more, jump more, abandon a project, read Samuel Johnson, and my other experiments in the practice of everyday life by Rubin, Gretchen is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.
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In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place.  One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick—why? She was standing right in her own kitchen. She felt homesick, she realized, with love for home itself. “Of all the elements of a happy life,” she thought, “my home is the most important.” In a flash, she decided to undertake a new happiness project, and this time, to focus on home. And what did she want from her home? A place that calmed her, and energized her. A place that, by making her feel safe, would free her to take risks. Also, while Rubin wanted to be happier at home, she wanted to appreciate how much happiness was there already. So, starting in September (the new January), Rubin dedicated a school year—September through May—to making her home a place of greater simplicity, comfort, and love. In The Happiness Project, she worked out general theories of happiness. Here she goes deeper on factors that matter for home, such as possessions, marriage, time, and parenthood. How can she co
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Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.
- Author
- Rubin, Gretchen
- Publisher
- Crown Archetype; Harmony
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307886781
- Category
- self-help
- Subjects
- Memoir, Psychology, Home & Lifestyle
- Rating
- 3.48 / 5 (718 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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