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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

#87: Gretchen Rubin on Being Happier: The Self Awareness to Live Better & Understand More

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan

Heather Monahan

Self-improvement, Education, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

As we round on the New Year, ask yourself: How do you respond to expectations? Do you complete your resolutions? Do you execute on what others ask of you? There are four types of tendencies and knowing more about yourself will lead to healthier habits, better relationships, and more results. Gretchen Rubin is a bestselling author, human nature expert, and award winning podcaster, who has spent her career discovering what makes us happy. She joins Heather today to discuss her insights on building productive habits that will make your life better and other’s lives better too. About the Guest: Gretchen Rubin is the author of several books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Four Tendencies, Better Than Before, The Happiness Project, and Happier at Home. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. On her popular weekly podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, she discusses good habits and happiness with her sister Elizabeth Craft; they’ve been called the “Click and Clack of podcasters.” Her podcast was named in iTunes’s lists of “Best Podcasts of 2015” and was named in the Academy of Podcasters “Best Podcasts of 2016.” BuzzFeed listed Happier in 10 Life-Changing Things to Try in June and the New Yorker said, “Their voices remind you that life is a human project that we’re all experimenting with.” The podcast consistently ranks in the iTunes Top Charts. Fast Company named Gretchen Rubin to its list of Most Creative People in Business, and she’s a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100. Finding Gretchen Rubin: Visit her website: https://gretchenrubin.com/  Listen to Happier Read her latest book: Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness Take her 4 Tendencies Quiz Instagram & Twitter: @GretchenRubin To inquire about my coaching program opportunity visit https://mentorship.heathermonahan.com/  Review this podcast on Apple Podcast using this LINK and when you DM me the screen shot, I buy you my $299 video course as a thank you!  My book Confidence Creator is available now! get it right HERE If you are looking for more tips you can download my free E-book at my website and thank you! https://heathermonahan.com  *If you'd like to ask a question and be featured during the wrap up segment of Creating Confidence, contact Heather Monahan directly through her website and don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you don’t skip a beat to all things Confidence Creating!   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Come on this journey with me. Each week when you join me, we are going to chase down our goals.

0:05.8

Overcome adversity and set you up for a better tomorrow.

0:09.2

That's a no statement.

0:10.8

I'm ready for my close-up.

0:12.0

Hi, and welcome back. I'm ready for my close up. Hi and welcome back.

0:14.0

I'm so grateful you're back here with me.

0:17.0

So this is going to be such an amazing episode.

0:20.0

I'm so excited for you to hear it. My guest is off the charts impactful

0:26.4

amazing talented and so good. So before we get to her I wanted to share a little

0:32.2

bit since we're approaching New Years within a couple

0:35.7

of days.

0:36.7

I want to think about where I was a year ago before the pandemic and how things have changed and get some perspective.

0:45.0

So I didn't exercise that I do every year.

0:47.2

I highly encourage you to do it.

0:49.7

I set up a year in a review, basically going through creating whether you do a photo album on your

0:56.8

phone or an Inst Story highlight or you know you're going to find a place that you're comfortable saving this so that you can go back and reflect.

1:06.0

And I've been doing this since 2017.

1:08.0

I did it on my Insta Story and in my phone on my albums.

1:13.0

And so I can always really quickly go back and look,

1:16.0

oh, what did I do that ear, that's a highlight,

1:18.0

and I'm just looking at the highlight reel,

1:21.0

it's not the pictures of me crying,

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