Taking my cue from Gretchen Rubin's book The Happiness Project I will be charting my progress through my resolutions on twelve areas I need either to enhance, create, adjust, dissolve or some combination of those actions to find the most happy me.
This is my semi one third life crisis as I like to look at it. One third of my life is almost over. It seems silly to think that I am having qualms about being thirty. But let me make it clear that it isn't my age or how I feel or my life experiences that is freakin' me out, it is that on average women live longer than men but still only into their eighties - granted women in my family are strong and tough and seem to live longer than the national average so I am counting on Grandma Shorty here to keep me flowing past 100- and so by thirty years of age we've consumed some good years.
This project is also taking into account the life I have. You know, the one I am living each day. Not some fictional life I have in my head that is void of past mistakes and choices or the life I am expecting to attain at some point in the future. No. This project is now! It focuses on my life as it is and the project is centered at finding greater happiness in my life.
My twelve areas will most likely and no doubt would differ from yours if you yourself would create such a project in your life. I like to think of it as a personalized twelve step plan. And trust me there are most certainly ways to fail at this project. I've run through several different lists at various moments but I owe it to myself to try and try and try. Because Rubin suggests and other authors as well, we are most happy when we are growing in the direction of our goal.
