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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 567: Do You Feel Unprepared for the New Year? Plus Roller-Derby Names

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We talk about a thought-provoking, helpful exercise to help prepare for the upcoming year. We also share an easy hack for making parties more fun, reflections on #Read25in25, and re-visit a whimsical know-yourself-better question.

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0:00.0

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0:06.7

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0:11.6

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0:16.0

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0:38.5

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0:45.3

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0:51.3

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0:55.3

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1:02.5

Lemonada.

1:17.0

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about ways to become happier.

1:25.3

This week we'll talk about the benefits of looking back and looking forward and a hack for making a party more fun.

1:29.5

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, secrets of adulthood, human nature. I'm in my little home office in New York City, and joining me today

1:34.4

from Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Craft and Elizabeth, happy almost New Year.

1:40.1

That's me, Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in L.A. And yes, Scratch, happy New Year. Happy

1:46.5

26. Yes, and happy New Year's resolutions to all who observed them. We've talked a lot about

1:53.5

New Year's resolutions and their variants. So good luck designing your year. That year is about to

1:58.4

start. But before we jump into this week's episode,

2:01.0

we got a few interesting responses from listeners. For one thing, we got a few listener responses

2:06.0

to our suggestion of making a medication list. Yes, Laura said, thank you for your tip recently

2:12.7

regarding up-to-date medication list. As a family physician, I really appreciate when people do this. If you end up

2:19.6

at the hospital away from home, your doctors will thank you. A reminder, though, to include

2:24.7

medications that aren't pills, like injections, creams, inhalers, patches on the list. It is also good

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