Rubin is not an unhappy woman:
she has a loving husband, two great kids and a writing career in New
York City. Still, she could-and, arguably, should-be happier. Thus, her
methodical (and bizarre) happiness project: spend one year achieving
careful, measurable goals in different areas of life (marriage, work,
parenting, self-fulfillment) and build on them cumulatively, using
concrete steps (such as, in January, going to bed earlier, exercising
better, getting organized, and “acting more energetic”). By December,
she’s striving bemusedly to keep increasing happiness in every aspect of
her life. The outcome is good, not perfect (in accordance with one of
her “Secrets of Adulthood”: “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the
good”), but Rubin’s funny, perceptive account is both inspirational and
forgiving, and sprinkled with just enough wise tips, concrete advice and
timely research (including all those other recent books on happiness)
to qualify as self-help. Defying self-help expectations, however, Rubin
writes with keen senses of self and narrative, balancing the personal
and the universal with a light touch. Rubin’s project makes curiously
compulsive reading, which is enough to make any reader happy. 

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