Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about you guessed it, how to be happier.

This week we'll talk about why it can be helpful to say this is actually good for me,

and we'll talk about a great strategy for quitting an addictive app.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness good habits in human nature.

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and Elizabeth I know that

you have struggled in the past with addictive apps.

Yes, that's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen I'm

happy to report that Candy Crush is still dank-wish for my life.

I don't have Candy Crush on my phone, I'm recovered.

You got rid of it?

It came back.

You got rid of it again, but you're standing strong.

Yes.

Excellent.

Well, we are nearing the end of January, but it still has that new year feel to it.

I know that I, and I think a lot of people are still in that mode of thinking about what

just happened in the previous year, what do I want to happen in the year to come.

If anybody else is in a mode like that, I just wanted to recommend Chris Gillabo, who

has the great podcast side hustle school, has this great extended cut episode, and it's

the extended cut episode number 12, where he talks about how to conduct your own annual

review for yourself.

He talked about his own annual review for 2017.

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