Every once in awhile, someone happens to pass through my personal space on his or her own’s life journey, leaving behind an energy — either positive or negative — that can affect me for a long, long time. One of the positives is definitely MJ Ryan.

She’s the best-selling author of “The Happiness Makeover” (Broadway Books, 2005), a no-nonsense approach to taking charge of your own life and attitude. She also offers, through her website, a Daily Happiness Booster e-mail.

Call it Karma, fate, whatever you will, but it’s amazing to me just how dead-bang right on target these plain-speaking emails have been. It’s as if she has climbed into my head, figured out just what I was fretting about most, and then slapped me up alongside the head with the –DUH!– obvious answer.

Never preachy, always inspiring, the Daily Happiness Boosters are well worth the read. I couldn’t possibly recommend them any more highly. Thanks, MJ. You touch all of us who read you in a super-positive way.