Video: Force Yourself To Wander.

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This week’s resolution is to Force yourself to wander. (Please excuse the slightly wild look in my eye in the thumbnail below.)

If you want to read more about this resolution, check out…
Why I “force myself to wander,” and what I found off the beaten track.
A paradox of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but novelty makes us happy.
If you want more or less of something in your life, measure it.

How about you? What strategies do you use to force yourself to wander, to make sure that you expose yourself to new ideas and new impressions?

From 2006 through 2014, as she wrote The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, Gretchen chronicled her thoughts, observations, and discoveries on The Happiness Project Blog.

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