13 out of 20

The plan had been to write a blog post about each of the secrets of happiness stolen from the Time website, add my own unique slant and nuggets of gold to it and then wrap up with a grand finale-post celebrating how happy I was.

That was 5 months. Got through 13 out of 20 secrets. Story of my life.

Full list (with Time.com commentary) can be found here:


1. Count Your Blessings
2. Hear the Music
3. Snog. Canoodle, Get it on
4. Nurture your spirituality
5. Move Your Body
6. Laugh Big
7. Do Something Nice for someone Else
8. Make More money than Your Peers
9. Seek Positive Emotions as a Path to Success
10. Identify with your Heritage
11. Use a Happy Memory as a Guide
12. Play the Part of an Optimist
13. Try New Things
14. Tell Your Story to Someone
15. Balance Work and Home
16. Be Like the Danes: Keep Expectations Realistic
17. Make Time
18. Visualize Happiness
19. Smile
20. Marry Happy

I had been looking forward to writing on "Tell your story to someone" but ah well...