Ep. 513: Revealed: Our Annual Challenge for 2025! Plus We Review 2024’s #Write24in24 Challenge

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

As part of “Design Your Year,” each year we announce an annual challenge based on the year—a habit that will help us and listeners to be come happier. We review our experience with last year’s “Write 24 in ‘24” challenge and reveal the challenge for 2025. Plus we discuss some of the tools and strategies we’ll use to help ourselves stick to this excellent challenge. Resources and links related to this episode: "Habits for Happiness" course #Write24in24 #Read25in25 One-Sentence Journal bookshop.org Happier™ app 2025 "War and Peace" Slow Read Four Tendencies Quiz Don't Break the Chain tracker "What's Your Neglected Sense?" Elizabeth is rereading: Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York Maitre D' by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina (Amazon, Bookshop) Gretchen is reading: Was She Pretty? by Leanne Shapton (Amazon, Bookshop) Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app. 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 that gives us strategies and suggestions about how to build happier habits into our everyday lives.
0:11.2	This week, we will reveal our annual challenge for 2025.
0:16.2	This is the yearly challenge that we challenge ourselves and listeners to every year.
0:20.1	And first, we'll review
0:21.5	the 2024 challenge of Write 24 in 24. I'm Gretchen Rubin. Written, Writer Studies, Happiness, good habits, human nature. I'm inretchen Rubin, writer studies, happiness, good habits, human nature.
0:40.9	I'm in New York City and joining me today from L.A. is my sister Elizabeth Craft and Elizabeth,
0:46.2	I have to say, this annual challenge is something that we are very excited to do.
0:50.8	Yes, we are.
0:51.8	That's me, Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in L.A.
0:56.3	And Gretch, happy late birthday. Thank you. Your birthday just passed on the 14th. Yep.
1:02.0	Happy birthday. Thank you. I had a very happy birthday. Before we launch in an update,
1:08.2	sign up for the Habits for Happiness course. If you want to get your
1:11.6	companion journal by January 1st, I really love this journal. And as part of the new course,
1:17.4	I developed it to help everybody stay on track with their most important habit for 2025. So if
1:23.5	you're planning to take the course and you really like want to start that first day with the tracker in hand,
1:29.1	sign up for the Habits for Happiness course today to get the companion journal in time for January 1st.
1:35.4	If you just really want to have it right at the beginning of the year.
1:38.1	And you will get 30% off through the end of the year at happiercast.com slash habits course.
1:46.1	Excellent.
1:47.0	Yeah, very excited to be doing this next year.
1:49.7	And this week, Elizabeth, our tried-this-at-home suggestion is to join the annual challenge.
1:55.1	So first let's describe what the annual challenge is and how it's part of the design-year
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