Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we take happiness from the abstract to the

concrete.

This week we'll talk about how we both did on our 18 for 2018 list and reveal a brilliant

simple solution to the problem of lost items.

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, it's hard to believe the year is almost over and 2019 is practically

here.

The days are long, but the years are short.

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

I have to say the days feel very short right now because of daylight savings.

Yes.

Dark at like four o'clock p.m.

By the way Gretchen, if I don't sound perfect, it's because I'm having some sort of technical

issue on the Disney lot, you know, where I record.

Sometimes we have internet problems and today seems to be one of those days.

Yes, indeed.

Well, this is a good lead into our holiday motto.

My holiday motto, you know, we talked about 196 is, Tis the season to be jolly.

So this is the kind of thing where it's a good reminder that I should be jolly and you

should be jolly even in the face of frustration.

I mean, we heard from a lot of people who had great holiday modders.

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