The Happiness Project

“To Have Management of the Mind Is a Great Art”

“To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.… Let him take a course of chymistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.”—Samuel Johnson

* A thoughtful reader told me about this wonderful artist’s blog: Color Me Katie . Irresistible.

* Interested in starting your own happiness project? If you’d like to take a look at my personal Resolutions Chart, for inspiration, just e-mail me at grubin, then the “at” sign, then gretchenrubin dot com. (Sorry about writing it in that roundabout way; I’m trying to thwart spammers.) Just write “Resolutions Chart” in the subject line.