Ep. 522: Tenth Anniversary! Best Try-This-At-Home Ideas, Happiness Hacks, and Highlights

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the podcast, we highlight our favorite ideas, hacks, and moments from the last decade. Everything from the “one-minute rule” to “clear the decks” to “give yourself a derby name” to Elizabeth’s famous recommendation of the Ped Egg. Resources and links related to this episode: Pre-order my new book, Secrets of Adulthood Better Than Before, my book about habit change Follow the one-minute rule Observe the family “update” Identify your signature anything: color, scent, personal symbol. Go to the doctor Celebrate minor holidays Start a side hustle “Identify your Happiness 911 song” Give yourself a “derby name” Create a five-senses portrait Organize trinkets Outer Order, Inner Calm book Packing cubes Share a podcast episode Closet-clearing montage Cleaning Elizabeth's office Hacks for reading more Hacks for making entertaining easier and more fun Hacks for performance Thank-you note debate Happiness lessons from teachers in episodes 324 and 326 Object sacrificing itself “Unplugged Episode” Clear the Decks Sweep the Decks Deck the Halls Voice memos from England Ped Egg “Have you ever been upset by a well-intentioned gift?” Happier in Hollywood podcast We made merchandise! Buy your merch! 10th Anniversary Celebration Sale Find the resources here 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	Lemonada. Lemonada.
0:56.0	Hello and welcome to have a podcast that gives you ideas and strategies for making life happier.
1:16.5	This week is a celebration episode. It is our 10th anniversary. I'm Gretchen Rubin, coming to you for the 10th year in a row.
1:26.1	I'm a writer who studies happiness,
1:27.7	good habits, human nature, secrets of adulthood. Yes, I am here in my little home office
1:33.5	in New York City and joining me today from Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Craft, my sister
1:39.4	the Sage, and my co-host for a decade. Wow. That is me, Elizabeth Kraft.
1:46.4	I am still a TV writer and producer living in L.A.
1:50.1	And Gretchen, I am so happy to celebrate 10 years of happier with you.
1:55.8	Yes, and so we're going to jump in.
1:57.4	We're going to do a lot of our highlights, favorite moments, milestones, all that.
2:01.2	But first, I have another extremely exciting announcement. So many things are happening all at once.
2:06.6	My book that is coming out April 1st is Secrets of Adulthood. This is my collection of the
2:12.1	secrets of adulthood that I have collected to remind myself of all the lessons that I've learned the hard way through life.
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