Reasons

I became interested in doing a Happiness Project for myself when I started reading (I honestly got to Rubin's first month and had decided that I was going to do a Happiness Project for myself), and I became interested in the book when it showed up in my Amazon search while I was looking for something else (can't remember what that was, though).

For the last five or six years of my life I've been identifying as "depressed" - I've been letting my clinical depression rule my life, and I've allowed myself to be too paralyzed by anxiety to overcome that.

I decided to start my own Happiness Project in the hopes that I can finally start truly living my life, not just watching it pass by me as I let it slip through my fingers.

So, I'm starting this project - it's like a year-long quest: Achieve Maximum Happiness. I'm nervous, excited, and really looking forward to it. The failure-option for this plan is really not that bad (the current status quo is maintained), and the success-option is one of the most important things I can do in this life (achieve happiness and contentment).

I only have ideas for the first two months, and that is as far ahead as I'm planning right now.