In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.'

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

The number one resolution that people mention to me as something that's made them happier is - to my surprise - making the bed.

Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.

Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.