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These strategies may be simple, but they work.
Find your happiness
Want to be happier?
More content and less aggravated or distressed by the little things?
Experience more perfect moments?
Appreciate them when they arrive?
It’s all here InThe Nine Rooms of Happiness.
Scroll through and discover what room you are in!
The attic
The attic holds your family expectations, what we call your emotional heirlooms.
For instance, if you’re form a long line of doctors and don’t want to be one?
The office
The office is for work inside and outside the home.
It’s where you think about your career and professional life, your personal ambition and your work-life balance.
This is also where you grapple with all nature of money issues: spending, saving and making it.
Financial security or lack of it.
Plus you’ve got all those bills to pay!
Put an end tomoney stress!
It’s both where you take care of yourself (don’t forget to floss!)
and also scrutinize your so-called flaws (is that another wrinkle?)
We say get away from the mirror, step away from the scale, and focus on the floss.
Fall in love withyour body, no matter what your size.
The kid’s room
The kid’s room is the place for your parenting dilemmas and decisions.
It also includes deciding whether or not to have kids and then trying.
Maybe, maybe not.
You want it, you need it, you deserve it.
Ourguideto getting good lovingboth in and out of the bedroom.
Fight with your sister?
She still has to be supportive when the chips are down.
Mom calling you incessantly?
You just may not want to chat four times a day.
No matter how crazy things may get,a family bondlasts forever.
Want to spend more time at home than at work?
Shorten your workday and catch more time with yourfamily.
That’s why we call it “the giving room.”
There’s no better feeling than giving back.
Find out how you’re free to make a differencehere.
The basement
The basement holds memories, yearbooks and any childhood events that shape your life.
For a happierfuture, let go of the past.
The tenth room
The tenth room is what Virginia Woolf called A Room of One’s Own.
How can you do more of what you love?
You contemplate these big existential questions here.
Make your dreams cometrue… finally!
Find out which room you are in
Not sure what room you are in today?
AtNineRooms.comyou candraw your houseand create your own emotional inner landscape.
And even decorate it too!
