Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to make your life happier, healthier, more productive and more creative.

This week we'll talk about why you should do a 10 minute closer and discuss the problem of demanding neighbors.

I'm Gretchen Reuben, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits and human nature.

I'm a New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft.

Oh, I will get to see you soon, Elizabeth, very briefly, but I'm hoping that I will get to hang out with you a bit when I'm in LA soon.

That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer, living in LA.

And yes, Gretchen, I think Jack is hoping that you'll make some more with him.

Oh, yeah, we'll have to see if it happens.

Excellent, excellent.

Now, before we jump in, we wanted to put out a call to the listeners.

Here in the United States, it's the summertime and a lot of people go on summer travel, summer trips, summer vacations, coming up in a lot of times in the United States.

This is in August and so for our very special episode that is airing on August 1st, we want to pack it with hacks, tips, strategies and try this at home ideas for making travel easier and more pleasant.

And we really want to feature lots of voices. So if you're inclined, please leave us a voicemail message at 774 277 9336 or easier to remember 77 happy 336 and you could also email us a voice memo to podcast at GretchenRubin.com.

And we want to include lots of ideas so it'd be really helpful if when you're giving your strategy or hack or try this at home, if you keep it brief and to the point.

Yes, but not too brief. We want to hear your story.

Yeah, not too brief.

And then Gretchen, I wanted to mention that your audiobook for happier at home goes on sale next week on July 17th.

You re-recorded it with your own voice because you realize that's what the people wanted.

Yes, so if you are looking for an audiobook to listen to as part of your summer travels or any travels or just in general, yes, you can listen to happier at home voiced by me, as they say, with a lot of fun to do that.

So this week our try this at home tip is to end each stage of your day with a 10 minute closer.

That sounds good. What is it exactly?

So this is an idea I write about in my book Outer Order Intercom, which I am getting ready to stop editing finally so that it can be published in March.

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