My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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Secret of Adulthood: Achieve More By Working Less.

Further Secrets of Adulthood:   Agree, disagree? It took me a long time to come around to believing this. But now I’m convinced. * The book give-away continues. If you’d like to win a free copy of Happier at Home, I’m giving away one book each day until publication. Enter your name and email in the sign-up form here, and every day, a …


It Sounds Easy, So Why Is This Particular Element of Happiness So Hard?

I love the novels of J.P. Marquand, and over the weekend, I re-read The Late George Apley. (I love to re-read.) I thought I remembered that it touched on the issue of happiness, and it does. The novel is terrific — funny, poignant, and very thought-provoking. The first, and most important, of my Twelve Personal Commandments is to Be Gretchen. …