Today is a book club episode where I'm going to be sharing my three biggest takeaways from the book

Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin. I love the tagline of her book, which is what I learned

about making and breaking habits to sleep more, quit sugar, procrastinate less, and generally

build a happier life. Doesn't that sound awesome? For a list of all the books

that I'm reading this year, head to nancy ray.com slash book club. Sometimes we just need a good

kick in the pants from someone to show us how to start something difficult or how to do

something that we've always wanted to do.

And better than before does exactly that.

I'm so excited to share my thoughts with you today.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray episode 187.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place.

This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well,

which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life.

Listen in.

There were a lot of takeaways I had from this book. There were just so many rich moments or quips or sentences or thoughts that she would inject into a chapter or

a paragraph. And I really loved reading kind of just the way that she thought about things,

the way she analyzed things, the way that she took on her sister as a project or not a project, but someone that she was like

working with to kind of test out her ideas on or a friend. And it was very experimental and it was

just a really fun read. But today I wanted to share my three biggest takeaways. And those are

the four tendencies, which you may or may not have heard of,

the idea to just start in all the different ways that you can start a new habit. And lastly,

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