Ep. 445: Have a Happier Labor Day, Nominate Someone, and Manage the Line Between Work and Leisure

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We reflect on two questions that can help us make our work lives happier, more productive, and more creative. We also talk about why it’s a good idea to nominate people for awards, and how to manage the breakdown of the line between work time and leisure time. 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/445 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	Hello, and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about ideas for how to make our lives
0:07.0	happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative.
0:10.6	This week, in honor of Labor Day, we'll talk about two questions to help you think about
0:15.0	your own labor, and we'll talk about an easy way to make someone happier at work.
0:30.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin at Rutgers Studies Happiness Good Habits.
0:36.2	The five senses, human nature, I'm in my little home office in New York City, and joining
0:41.2	me today from LA is somebody who I love to work with, my sister, Elizabeth Kraut.
0:46.9	That's me, Elizabeth Kraut, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and Gretch right now
0:51.6	I'm not doing a lot of work because I am on strike, along with the rest of the WGA,
0:57.4	hoping that we'll end soon.
0:59.1	Yes, hoping it will come to an end soon.
1:02.6	Before we launch in, we have an update.
1:04.8	We got a response from a listener to our episode 442, which was about taking over someone
1:11.4	else's irrationally disliked task.
1:14.8	Yes, this comes from Meredith.
1:16.8	She says, your discussion in episode 442 about taking over someone else's irrationally
1:23.0	dislike task immediately made me think of my last visit with my father before he passed
1:28.3	away.
1:29.3	In early 2020, my mother fell and broke her tailbone, leaving many household tasks she usually
1:35.1	handled to my father and brother.
1:37.9	Because of the pandemic, I wasn't able to be there to help until September.
1:42.4	During that visit, I found an absolutely enormous pile of laundry in the guest room where it had
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