Ep. 444: Benefit from Tools You Already Use, a Gift Idea, and Traditions for the Other “New Year”

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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We talk about why and how we might try to get more benefit from a tool we already use, and share an idea for a gift that’ very valuable to the recipient, but doesn’t cost any money. We also share listeners’ traditions to prepare for the other “new year” of September. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft on Instagram @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft on Threads Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/444 Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available - order here. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. 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— Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do I do?
0:01.2	What do I do?
0:02.4	What do I say?
0:03.6	What do I say?
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about ideas and suggestions for
0:37.2	bringing more happiness into our everyday lives.
0:40.9	This week we'll talk about why and how we might try to get more benefit from the tools
0:46.8	that we are already using and we'll talk about suggestions from listeners about traditions
0:53.8	they have for the other new year of September because for many of us September is
0:59.9	the other January.
1:14.1	I'm Gretchen Riven, writer's studies happiness, good habits, the five senses and human nature.
1:19.3	I'm a New York City and joining me today from LA is my sister Elizabeth Kraft.
1:24.2	My sister who's one word theme for 2023 is scale and who has been scaling
1:29.6	Friman Canyon many times this year so far.
1:33.4	That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and yes Gretchen,
1:38.6	going for my Friman 80, it was Friman 50 but I've upped it to my Friman 80.
1:45.3	But before we launch into this week's try this at home suggestion we got some interesting
1:50.7	comments from listeners about some previous ideas.
1:54.8	Yes this one comes from Kate she says love the show as I type I am listening to episode
2:00.9	442 where you're talking about taking over a disliked task my sister did this for me recently
2:08.4	and I appreciated it so much. I really hate clothes shopping especially for specific
2:14.2	occasions and having to go into physical stores and look for things and figure out what I want
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