Happier with Gretchen Rubin

As part of the Happier Trifecta, we give ourselves and listeners an annualchallenge. We reflect on last year’s challenge of “Go outside 23 in ’23,” and wereveal the challenge for 2024 as well as many suggestions for how to make …

Should Money Be Used to Buy Fresh Flowers for a Museum?By posing an interesting question—such as “Should money be spent on flowers?”—we can learn about other people’s values.Get in touch: [email protected] on social media:@GretchenRubin on YouTube@GretchenRubin on TikTok@GretchenRubin on Instagram@GretchenRubin …

Listeners—and we--share the most effective and transformative resolutions we’ve made, as well as our suggestions for keeping them. We also talk about the 21 strategies we can use to make or break our habits. (It’s much easier to keep a …

Every time I refill my MTA Metro card, I’m reminded to ask myself a crucial question. Do I want to spend time or money?Get in touch: [email protected] on social media:@GretchenRubin on YouTube@GretchenRubin on TikTok@GretchenRubin on Instagram@GretchenRubin on ThreadsGet the podcast …

In honor of the death of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Gretchen tells behind-the-scenes stories and personal reflections from her clerkship year. Get in touch: [email protected] on social media:@GretchenRubin & @LizCraft on Instagram@GretchenRubin on TikTok and YouTubeGet the podcast …

Each year, we make a list of things we want to get done in the next twelvemonths. We review our “23 for 23” lists and report on what we accomplished (orfailed to accomplish). We also reflect on what we learned …

As a child, I was deeply moved by this story of a child’s wish to do a good deed, and how she fulfilled that wish, despite making many mistakes. As an adult, I’m even more moved by it.Get in touch: …

Next year marks the fifteenth anniversary of Gretchen Rubin’s #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Happiness Project. To celebrate, she’s leading a one-time, one-year course called “The Happiness Project: Revisited.” In this bonus excerpt from the course, Gretchen and …

We review the one-word themes we chose for 2023—“Scale” and “Wave”--anddiscuss how and why those themes influenced the last twelve months. We alsoreveal the one-word themes we’ve chosen for 2024, and what symbol we’ll use torepresent our themes.Get in touch: …

It’s not pleasant to be criticized, but I remind myself, “The only thing worse that getting criticized is not getting criticized.” Criticism shows that someone thinks that work is worthy of correction.Get in touch: [email protected] on social media:@GretchenRubin on YouTube@GretchenRubin …