Here’s a question for you.

2013 is almost here. (How did that happen, by the way?)

If, by the end of 2013, you could magically change one aspect of your life, what would you change?

What single thing would add the most to your happiness?

You know my next question.

With that aim in mind, can you come up with concrete, manageable steps that would help you accomplish it?

As I’ve worked on my happiness projects, I’ve been surprised to discover how easy it is to be unhappy with some aspect of my life, but somehow I never try to do anything about it. And many times, once I tried to do something about it, it wasn’t even very hard to improve it.


Gretchen Rubin is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Happiness Project—an account of the year she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier—and the recently released Happier at Home. On her popular blog, The Happiness Project, she reports on her daily adventures in the pursuit of happiness. For more doses of happiness and other happenings, follow Gretchen on Facebook and Twitter.

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