Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

If you're a night person you can barely get out of bed in time to get to work or get your kids off to school. You're at your most productive and creative much later in the day, and for you, something like getting up early to go for a run is not going to set you up for success because you're not a morning person.

I'm doing a lot of speaking and talking about habits, which is this subject that obsesses me. That's a lot of fun.

What I found is, really, you always have to begin by nailing what is true about you, because something that works very well for someone else might not work for you at all.

The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there's somehow a magic "one size fits all" solution. That, "If it works for you it's going to work for me," and it's just a matter of figuring out what that habit would be, whether that's do it first thing in the morning, or start small, or do it for thirty days, or give yourself a cheat day.