100: Want to Make Good Habits Stick? Here’s How with Gretchen Rubin
Feel Good Effect
Robyn Conley Downs
4.9 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Do you want to make good habits really stick?
For habits that stick, we're going to one of the experts, Gretchen Rubin, who happens to be one of the most influential writers on the subjects of habits, happiness, and human nature.
This is part three of our summer masterclass five tiny habits that will change your life.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Feel Good Effect. Do you want to make good habits stick? And I mean really |
| 0:04.9 | stick? Well, we're going to talk about that today. Let's make it happen. Welcome to the Feel Good Effect. I'm |
| 0:13.9 | your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I help people find time and create space in their lives for what |
| 0:19.9 | matters most by sharing simplified |
| 0:22.6 | strategies for wellness. This podcast is all about real talk, real wellness, and unpacking |
| 0:29.6 | what it really means to be healthy. Hey, feel good effect community. I am so glad you're here for part three in our summer |
| 0:39.8 | masterclass, five tiny habits that will change your life. Hey, and if you're just joining us, |
| 0:45.3 | no worries, you can download the last couple episodes and then grab the cheat sheet. |
| 0:50.0 | You're going to want to have that. RealfoodHolife.com slash tiny changes. So yeah, habits that stick, we're going to want to have that. Realfood whole life.com slash tiny changes. |
| 0:59.6 | So yeah, Habits that stick, we're going to one of the experts, Gretchen Rubin. |
| 1:04.6 | And Gretchen just happens to be one of the most influential writers on the subjects like habits, |
| 1:06.0 | happiness, and human nature. |
| 1:10.8 | She's the author of quite a few books, and in this one, we're talking in particular about the four |
| 1:11.1 | tendencies. This episode originally aired in September of 2017, and it's just so dang relevant. |
| 1:19.8 | And those of you who already have the cheat sheet know what this little habit practice that I'm |
| 1:24.6 | going to give at the end is. It's good for you. If you haven't, |
| 1:27.7 | you can grab it at realfoodLife.com slash tiny changes and stay tuned to the end because I will |
| 1:33.4 | walk you through that step by step. All right, let's go. Let's make some good habits that stick. |
| 1:38.8 | So Gretchen, you started out as a Yale train lawyer. You were clerking for Sandra Day O'Connor, |
| 1:44.1 | working, you know, in the legal field. And then at train lawyer, you were clerking for Sandra Day O'Connor, working in the legal |
| 1:45.8 | field, and then at some point you decided, I'm going to leave all this and start writing. |
| 1:51.6 | So tell me about that process. |
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