Category Archives: happiness project

Accomplishment

I did it. I’ve set a lot of goals over the years.  At first they were goals that society set for me, like graduating from college, getting a job, following the beaten path.  And I did it with gusto.  The beaten path was leading me where I wanted to go and I was clicking along,…

>The habits themselves

>In case you are wondering what on earth I’m trying to accomplish every day, here goes: 1.  Workout.  I tend to put this off until later in the day, because the pregnancy workout videos are pretty lame, and going for a walk with Sebastian in the stroller up and down the hills in our neighborhood…

>Back in the Habit

>I had to start over with my New Year’s resolutions.  If you don’t know what I mean, you may want to start here.  I was up to about day 18 when I came to a halt.  It was for a very good reason, which was that my mom came out to visit and I turned…

>Adjustments

>After doing some thinking, looking over my resolutions, and reading some helpful comments, I think I’m going to combine my categories of resolutions so that I go from 8 to 5.  Five seems manageable.  You can count them on one hand, and being able to do things with one hand is no small feat when…

>One (small?) change

>My happiness project has stalled out a bit, and I’m trying to take another look and see what’s working and what isn’t.  Working on so many different resolutions is definitely not working.  I have a hard time just deciding on one thing to do each month.  By that logic, I thought I’d never get to…