happiness project

I am a seeker of happiness and have been wanting to focus on this area of my life a little more recently.
I have now completed 24 ideas on my happiness list.

I have been scouring the net looking for ideas of a project I could do, when one day I realised that there was a great idea sitting right in front of me. I have been reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin and it led me to check out her website. I just happened to click on her site the day she was sharing about her happiness challenge of keeping a one sentence journal for a month.

Immediately my heart leapt and I knew that this was a realistic happiness challenge for me to do and that it would be a wonderful idea to get other bloggers involved as well.

I love a quote Gretchen shares in her book:

"One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy.

One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself."

This happiness project is just what I was looking for to help me focus on being more aware of what makes me happy and to help others focus on happiness too. I love that it involves only one sentence a day and a short time for me to reflect each night on what has stood out as a great moment during my busy day.

I have always loved keeping a journal and as a mother have found it difficult to keep it up. This idea is manageable. It is simple and a way for me to put pen to paper quickly each day.

Below I have attached Gretchen sharing a little more about the happiness challenge to keep a one sentence journal for the month.



So here is the plan:
Starting on April 10th and finishing on May 10th we take time each day to record and write one sentence on what has made us feel happy during that day or things that we are grateful for on that day.

At the end of the month after May 10th (I will let you know what date), we each publish as a blog post our one sentence monthly list and link up together here at Seven Cherubs so that we can each read what touched our hearts and made us happy. If you do not feel comfortable sharing all of your daily sentences then just share with us those that you do feel comfortable sharing.

An example could be:
Today we went to the park, had a picnic for dinner and I loved watching the kids play together. OR
I love that I have a washing machine that works and that Eli has stopped throwing up!

So will YOU join me???

Link up your blog below if you want to take the happiness project challenge.

p.s - I have also found out that every Sunday over at We Heart Life they link up all of the happy moments they had for the week. Check it out here if you are interested in more happiness ideas.