Day One

Excitement tends to accompany every fresh start, but once the novelty wears thin, people often lose track of the very reasons they chose their path in the first place. Michael Miller tells the story of noticing this pattern in his own life and of how, once he understood what was happening, his daily existence became far happier through a simple habit: returning in his mind to the moment it all began.

The book is candid that remembering that first day cannot promise a life free of unhappiness. Its central argument is that forgetting it, by contrast, almost always shifts attention from the good aspects of a situation toward the bad ones.