Happiness Project

Suzie - I bought the book yesterday and started reading it. WOW, it's awesome. I LOVE it.

After the first chapter I gained a very important insight. I'm looking for Fred's approval, that is the cause of my unhappiness -- I need to be recognized by others to feel validated! Friends, Collegues, family members - WOW.

So this week, in addition to "don't worry, be happy" I'm going to focus on how I FEEL about my accomplishments, because as Gretchen points out, it's our movement forward (I'm taking liberties here) that provides the food for happiness. Not looking to other people to validate your worth.

Amazing.

I also really liked her commandments and list of things she was going to work on to be happy. I think you and I should launch our own Happiness project. I am a bit like her in that I like to chart and graph progress, so her process would work well for me. What do you think?