December is the natural time to take stock of what the years-long Happiness Project has taught me. Yesterday’s post explored Gretchen Rubin’s “Boot Camp Perfect” idea and the value of consolidating dozens of individual resolutions into one structured tool. Throughout 2025, a new layer of habits, mindset changes and small experiments with conscious living were […]
December is the final month of this year-long tennis-specific exploration of Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project. Today’s post is a reflection on Rubin’s concept of “Boot Camp Perfect,” a call to action to always follow all our happiness resolutions. While that level of perfection is a tall order, the concept behind it resonates with me. […]
During 2025 I spent the first full weekend of every month exploring ideas inspired by Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project. The theme for Augustus is considering eternity. We will continue with this trip with a deceptively simple but remarkably powerful tool that Rubin emphasized as an effective way to cultivate joy. This technique works by […]