Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to build strategies and tips to build happier habits into your everyday life.

This week we'll talk about why you should write it down. So obvious, so true.

And how an obliger, obliger couple can create out-of-a-countability for each other.

I'm Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in Los Angeles and with me is my sister, Gretchen Rubin, in New York City, who is my favorite happiness bully.

That's me, Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits in human nature, and Elizabeth.

We swapped up the intros to get everyone in the mood for the upcoming April Fool's Day.

That is a holiday that we've always enjoyed as a family, so we decided to play an extremely minor April Fool's trek.

Yes. Happy April Fool's Day.

Yes, plan a trick to play on your friends and family. It's very fun to do a little April Fool's Day confusion.

Now, Gretchen, you just had a big anniversary. Your blog is now 12 years old.

Yes, my gosh, it's hard to believe. As of March 27th, my blog has been going for 12 years. It has changed a lot over time. We have come a long way.

But it's been a huge engine of happiness for me. In fact, if anybody wants to hear about how I got the idea to start writing the blog, I write about that in my book, The Happiness Project.

Also, I did, for the 10th anniversary, which I cannot believe already, is two years ago, I did this e-book called The Best of the Happiness Project Blog.

Ten years of happiness, good habits, and more. If you want to read highlights from the blog, I'll put a link to that in the show notes. It's hard to believe it's been 12 years. It's crazy.

I remember being in Kansas City and you telling me about this blog, you were going to start out. You're happiness project.

I didn't know if I even knew what a blog was. It's so crazy. It feels so much longer than 12 years in some way.

It feels like I can't imagine Gretchen Ruben life before blog. It's hard to remember.

Well, that's the way this was so many things. It feels like it's been very brief and then also, like, since the dawn of time, it's weird how things are like that.

But so, look at this week, I tried this at a home tip. I think we have to say this one comes from the department of the obvious, but it's something that's worth really shining a spotlight on because it really works.

And you really regret it if you do not follow this, try this home, which is right it down. If you have an important thought, write it down.

Yes, if you care to remember something, put it down on a piece of paper, a phone somewhere, write it down.

Don't delay, write it down right away. And I listed this happen in kind of a super meta way, even with this idea of the try this at home because you and I were talking in a separate conversation just amongst ourselves.

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