Ep. 277: Schedule an “Empower Hour,” a Know-Yourself-Better Question about Confiding Secrets, and a Spotlight on Writer Nnedi Okorafor

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Why you might schedule a weekly “empower hour,” how a dollar bill can come in handy, a spotlight on the writings of Nnedi Okorafor, and a revealing question about secrets. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/277 Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! Listen to Gretchen's episode on Meditative Story. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about strategies and solutions for having a happier
0:05.4	life.
0:06.4	This week we'll talk about why you might want to schedule a weekly empower hour, where
0:10.8	you put your values into the world, and we have a know yourself better question about
0:14.9	confiding your secrets.
0:29.1	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature.
0:32.9	I am in my home office in New York City, and with me is my sister, Elizabeth Krav.
0:38.8	That's me, Elizabeth Krav, the TV writer and producer, living in LA, and Gretchen, also
0:43.9	in my home office.
0:45.2	Not surprising.
0:46.2	Yeah, I can picture you pretty easily these days.
0:51.0	So it was at this week or tried this at home tip, comes from a listener.
0:54.8	It's a great idea to schedule an empower hour.
0:59.2	Yes, we talked about a power hour.
1:02.6	In fact, that was way back in episode six, we talked about a power hour.
1:07.8	This is an empower hour, which is such a great twist on the idea.
1:11.9	Yeah.
1:12.9	So with power hour, the idea is that you make a list of all those nagging tasks that pile
1:16.9	up.
1:17.9	Like, I need to find the hammer that I missplaced.
1:20.2	I need to change an inconvenient light bulb.
1:23.4	These are things that can just, we intend to do them, but we don't get to them, because
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