Happier at Home: A Look Behind the Scenes
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- As she conducted the year-long project that became The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin realized that her home, in all its aspects, was the most crucial element influencing her happiness.
So, starting in September (the new January), Gretchen dedicated a school year-from September through May-to concentrate on the factors that matter for home, such as possessions, marriage, time, parenthood, body, neighborhood. How can she control the cubicle in her pocket? How might she highlight her family's most treasured possessions? How, for so long, had she overlooked the importance of the sense of smell? And it really was time to replace that dud toaster.
As in The Happiness Project, each month has a theme and finds Gretchen experimenting with several concrete, manageable resolutions meant to boost her happiness. With her signature blend of memoir, research, and experimentation, Gretchen's passion for her subject jumps off the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will inspire readers to find more happiness in their own lives.
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Gretchen Rubin is the co-host of the top-ranked, award-winning Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast. One of the most thoughtful and influential voices on the subjects of happiness, habits, and human nature, she’s the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including “The Happiness Project,” “The Four Tendencies,” and “Better Than Before”. She lives in New York City with her family.
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How lovely to see your home :-) Thank you so much for your gift to the world x
I love your books, Gretchen! I'm actually reading "Happier at Home" for a second time. This is really neat to see more of you and your home. =)
Oh my gosh...that empty shelf gave me shivers...
awwww, such a nice idea to do this video, especially now after i have listen to the audiobook twice already. but most of all i would love to see the miniture scene in the kitchen closet :-)
I love your shrines!! I think I’m going to copy your photos shrine. I’m also loving all your books in the background when you are talking about your shrine to smells and wish I could get a closer peek to see what the titles are :0)
I love this so much. I love watching youtube videos, and wished that you had some while I was reading your books. I'm also enjoying your podcast. Thanks!
Thank you for being so helpfully informative!
I loved the video and I loved the book - one of my all time favorites. I recommend it to everyone! Thank you for sharing your wisdom and insights! Karen
You are so funny (and I actually mean, you have some weird-to-me ideas - LOL) - but you have SO MANY **great** ideas. Since I read your book, I've been wondering how you did your photo gallery. I've actually starting doing mine by SEASONS, since we live in the Midwest where we have all four seasons and many opportunities for pretty photos. We have two 3YO grandchildren now - a girl and a boy - and I'm trying to get "typical seasonal" photos of them each season and displaying them in easy-to-switch out frames. I'm really liking this because it gets those digital photos PRINTED (and I also print extras for family at same time). We are often in Costco so I can easily send them there via the Internet, and then, every time we go to Costco, I can "check for photos". We also have a huge bulletin board in our kitchen so extra photos, greeting cards, kid's crafts, etc. - can go there - and be switched out each season. This is definitely making me happier - thanks, Gretchen! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your books and podcast.
I wish I knew the company you mentioned in connection with 'I hate perfumes.'
I loved the book! I read it quickly and bought a second copy and sent it to a friend as soon as I finished.
This video is so fun, thanks a whole bunch. Are you sure you can't to come to Boise?
ohh,,,too bad. you know, i'm a big audiobooks listener and some writeres find a place, on the blog or somelace else on line, to upload the photos from the written book for the audio book listeners. the last example i remember is Jenny Lawson who uploaded photos from her "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" and it was really nice to see.
in any case i really enjoyed your book. Yifat
a fab little known perfume.. is enchanted forest by The Vagabond Price... xx
I've recently noticed a change in myself around synthetic perfumes. I used to enjoy their smell and if I got a whiff of a persons perfume I'd think how lovely it is. I used to think people who complained about people wearing perfumes as a bit odd. Yet nowadays when I smell synthetic perfumes it doesn't smell nice, it smells like the most toxic kind of acid, that gets caught in my nose and throat, and I get what those complainers were on about. Now I'm one of "them" and I want to explain - this is different than not liking a smell - it is identifying the smell of the chemicals and synthetics and not the actual perfume part. I no longer smell the floral or the citrus just the acid chemical smell. It smells tainted. Weird I know. Then I read about the thousands of chemicals, some suspected as dangerous that are in perfumes and I feel bad for people all over the world absorbing this crap through their skin. So please if youre a wearer of perfume please consider others especially if you are sitting next to somebody on a plane, or you deal with the public for your job. Consider allowing your daughters to use essential oils rather than the toxic synthetic cocktail of a brand name perfume or something from a fragrance house. (So many of today's smells "rose", "strawberry", "banana" are not from those sources, but made with synthetics) I can now pick synthetic a mile off just Brough smell. there are many articles online about the chemical sensitivities people are developing to these toxins. I love your books and I love your podcast, but I just wanted to give you the low down on what it was to once to be a lover of perfume to now somebody totally out of love with synthetic fragrances.