Master Yourself to Become 'Better Than Before'

Gretchen Rubin has done a lot of thinking about happiness - what it takes to get it and how to hold onto it. She shared her suggestions in a best-selling book called "The Happiness Project." In her latest book, she gets to what she says are the fundamental building blocks of happiness - our habits. The book is called "Better Than Before: Mastering The Habits Of Our Everyday Lives." And she says the key is figuring out something very basic about yourself.

GRETCHEN RUBIN: Well, it has to do with how you deal with an expectation. So an outer expectation like a deadline at work or an inner-expectation like your own desire to start getting back into meditation. So there's four types of people. The first, upholders readily meet outer and inner expectations. So they can keep an New Year's resolution, they can meet a deadline, not much problem.