Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about strategies and tips for how to make life happier, healthier, more productive and more creative.

This week we'll talk about using the checklist for habit change and we'll share some of the best holiday hacks that we got from listeners.

You got a lot of breaks.

I'm Gretchen Riven, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits and human nature. I'm in New York City and with me is my sister, Elizabeth Crap.

And Elizabeth, I have to say our best holiday hack is go to Kansas City and free ride off of mom's gorgeous decorations.

That's me, Elizabeth Crap, to TV writer and producer, living in LA and yeah Gretchen, I am headed there tomorrow morning.

I can't wait.

Ooh, that's so great.

But Elizabeth, we heard from so many listeners who were thinking about you because of the fires.

It was so scary.

Yeah, LA and this surrounding area had a bunch of fires. It sort of felt like Armageddon. It was very tense.

One was pretty near our house. We lived near the Getty Center and it was near the Getty.

And so I really appreciate everyone reaching out to make sure we were okay. We were, we were never even in danger of evacuating, although we thought we might have to be.

But it's a lot of people lost their houses and it was just awful. So, you know, hopefully that will be it for the fires this year.

Yeah, I mean, something like that really reminds you of what you have to be thankful for, you know. Wow, it's serious.

Absolutely.

Well, this week Elizabeth R, try this at home tip is to use my checklist for habit change.

If you're thinking about changing a habit in 2018 to make yourself happier or healthier or more productive or more creative,

I have this one page checklist for habit change that I think can be a really helpful tool.

So, Gretz, can you describe what it is and why it's useful for all of us who don't know what it is?

Okay. Yeah. So, if you want to get it, you can email me as always at podcastagretzendrubin.com or you can go to the show notes for this episode.

So, it's happiercast.com slash 148 and I'll give you the link.

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