{"id":4354,"date":"2021-01-23T07:39:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T07:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2021-01-23T07:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T07:41:02","slug":"the-happiness-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=4354","title":{"rendered":"The Happiness Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions &#8211; Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reading books has always been an integral part of my life and has always helped me grow. The Happiness Project helped me reflect on my day-to-day experiences. I could very well resonate with the author and some of the examples that she shared, really hit me hard. What impacted me the most was the difference between a goal and a resolution. Quoting from the book,<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0&#8216;You hit a goal, you keep a resolution.&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">When I read this, I decided to make resolutions, rather than goals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The book was very inspiring and some of the messages that I got from the book are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Be yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Try and work out what makes you happy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One of the best ways to be happy is to make others happy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One of the best ways to make others happy is to be happy myself.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions &#8211; Dalai Lama. Reading books has always been an integral part of my life and has always helped me grow. The Happiness Project helped me reflect on my day-to-day experiences. I could very well resonate with the author and some of the examples that she shared, really hit me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club-big-books-short-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4355,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclasses.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}