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Oct 25, 2011 this book made me happy in the first five pages. She created a 12month project, with different resolution in each one. Journal of happiness studies rg journal impact rankings. Or why i spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read aristotle, and generally have more fun by gretchen rubin 6,328 ratings, 3.
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I felt that i knew what the book was about and that i could have written it but now that it was written by someone else, my idea for a selfhelp book was taken. Simply turn to todays date, reflect on the quote at the top of the page, and jot down. Oct 09, 2012 the happiness project journal is a small bright blue book with one page for every day of the year and plenty of room for interpretation. It covers both cognitive evaluations of life like lifesatisfaction. I was particularly interested to read it because i very much liked haidts book, the happiness hypothesis.
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