resolutions

Tips to achieve your home decorating goals this year

I think one of the reasons that people have such a tough time keeping resolutions is because they make resolutions they don't want to keep.

Over at The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin recently posted about a resolution of hers — "Take a Field Trip" — where she describes a recent visit to a perfumerie in New York to seek out good smells and cultivate some happy-making fragrances. It's a little touch that can make life a little happier, and it's got me thinking about how making (and, ideally, sticking to) some resolutions isn't just for January 1. Life in the spring and summer feels so different to me than it does in the fall and winter, so it's only fitting that I should have a different set of ambitions and projects.

I used to love making dinner. That is, if the conditions were perfect. In my young and single days, on our days off from flying (I am a flight attendant), my best friend/roommate and I would peruse recipes over our morning coffee and draft up a menu...

It’s been just over three months now that I’ve been co-authoring this blog and that’s a lot of learning about the subject of happiness. So, in saying good bye to 2010 and welcoming 2011 with open arms, I thought I’d put a spin on this year’s New Year’s resolutions.