Ep. 314: Re-Engage with Your Resolutions, A Hack for Helping People to Give Gifts, an Outdoors Demerit, and Why Humor Is Such a Powerful Tool at Work and in Life.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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We talk about the 21 strategies that can help us re-engage with our resolutions, discuss a hack about helping people to give gifts (to avoid disappointment), and talk to Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonus about how humor can help us to engage more productively with other people. 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/314 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! 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 that gives you strategies and ideas for creating
0:05.9	more happiness in your daily life.
0:08.1	This week we'll talk about suggestions for ways to re-engage with your resolutions and
0:13.6	we'll talk to Jennifer Ocker and Naomi Begdonis about their new book, Humor Seriously,
0:19.4	My Humor is a secret weapon in business and life.
0:34.8	I'm Gretchen Rubin, writer who studies happiness, good habits in human nature and yes indeed,
0:39.9	once again I am right here in my home office in New York City and joining me today from
0:44.7	LA is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and Elizabeth, your humor always cracks me up.
0:49.4	That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen are my best
0:54.2	audience.
0:55.2	I must say, let me use the audience so I appreciate you.
0:58.9	We're gonna see you.
1:00.6	Hey, before we launch in, we want to let everybody know that our sixth anniversary episode
1:06.2	is coming up, it's unbelievable.
1:07.8	Liz, can you believe that it has been six years just about?
1:11.0	Right.
1:12.0	Oh my gosh.
1:13.0	It's amazing.
1:14.0	Little did we know when we started this.
1:16.4	So it's coming up and so we would love to hear from you.
1:19.3	What are your favorite moments of all time?
1:22.7	What are your favorite hacks?
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