CHAPTER 3

Happiness Is Personal and So Are Your Values

There are books and articles galore on happiness and values: Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project, Sonja Lyubomirsky’s The How of Happiness, Dan Harris’s 10% Happier, Jessica Virne’s Happiness Lessons from the Dalai Lama, Hyrum W. Smith’s What Matters Most: The Power of Living Your Values, and Marc Allen Schelske’s Discovering Your Authentic Core Values, just to name a few. These resources approach the topic from myriad angles and ideas—all worthy efforts to help point you in a direction toward the positive aspects of a life that’s filled with challenges and obstacles.

The gist of all these books on happiness is pretty much the same, though: Our happiness is found through intentionally ...

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