Why can some people just wake up one day and decide to change their life? Why can people wake up one day and just quit smoking or quit drinking or stop eating sweets or processed food? Why do some people struggle with forming habits that actually make them happy? They know they make them happier, but they still struggle doing them. Why do so many of us know

what to do, but we just aren't making the changes in our lives? We know what to do, but we just

aren't doing it. How do we actually change? These questions drive me a little bit crazy, and I am

obsessed with trying to understand this.

And I think everyone listening asks themselves a variation of these questions in some capacity,

maybe even every day.

Well, these questions led me on a quest, and that quest led me to Gretchen Rubin.

Now, I knew Gretchen already from her previous books.

She's actually written seven, but I read The Happiness Project years ago, and I thought

it was amazing.

So when she came out with Better Than Before, her newest book, I picked it up without even

thinking about the show.

Frankly, I just picked it up for me.

So I read better than before, mastering the

habits of our everyday lives, and I became a woman obsessed. I chased scratching down,

and I said, oh, I know you're on every television channel in the world, and I know you're at the

top of iTunes with your own podcast right now, and I know that you're in extreme demand, but could you

maybe come talk to us? Because I believe you can change everybody's lives who listens to this show.

And guess what? Gretchen didn't hesitate. She said yes immediately. The show today is about how we

actually change. And I hope that it is of as much value to you as my

conversation with Gretchen was to me. Here we go. Welcome, you're on air with Ella, where we share

simple strategies and truths from people who are doing something better than we are, whether it's

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