Ep. 355: Talk to Yourself by Name. Make a “To Don’t” List. How to Resist Over-Buying.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We talk about why it’s helpful to talk to yourself in the third person, a listener suggests the hack of making a “To Don’t” list, and we do a deep dive into listeners’ suggestions for resisting over-buying. 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/355 Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. 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	Many of us are already planning our New Year's resolutions to work out more in 2023.
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0:32.4	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we discuss cutting edge science,
0:36.0	the wisdom of the ages, lessons from pop culture, and our own experiences about how to be happier.
0:41.4	This week we'll talk about why you should talk to yourself by name,
0:45.1	and we'll do a deep dive into listener suggestions for facing the challenge of overbinding.
1:02.8	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who writes about happiness, good habits, and who just launched the
1:07.7	Happier app. Check it out. I'm usually in New York City, but today I am in Los Angeles,
1:13.5	and joining me today from Los Angeles, but strangely, we are not in the same place,
1:18.4	is my sister Elizabeth Kraft. That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer,
1:23.1	living in LA, and yeah, Gretchen, I'm in Encino, you're in Santa Monica, but I got to see you last night,
1:29.1	so that was great. Yes, I got to see you, got to see Jack and Adam, and I got to see Nacho.
1:34.4	That's right. I'll post a picture on this show note, if anybody wants to see him one year up,
1:39.3	one year down is so cute. We've been talking about gift giving because we're heading up into
1:45.2	the holidays, and we got a really interesting reminder from a listener about personalized gift
1:50.4	giving. Yes, this comes from Trisha, she says, I just listened to the most recent episode of
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