Discussion Questions

1. What is one way that you have encountered resistance?

2. Are you as happy as you could be? In chapter two of Resisting Happiness, the author asks
us to give ourselves a happiness score between 1 and 10 over the past three months. What
score would you give yourself?

3. Lent is a great time to take a step back and look at our lives. In what area of your life do
you need to place God at the center?

4. Have you ever wanted something good for someone more than they wanted it for themselves?

5. What hard battle are you fighting?

6. In chapter five, the author says we are called to put ourselves in the middle of the mess
of the world and work to make a difference, however small. What does that mean to you in
light of the Lenten call to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving?

7. Has restlessness ever pushed you to become a-better-version-of-yourself?