Ep. 567: Do You Feel Unprepared for the New Year? Plus Roller-Derby Names
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
4.7 • 13K 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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- Home cotton-candy machine
- Listen to episode 355
- Simon Haisell's Footnotes and Tangents on Substack
- Last chance to sign up for The Happiness Project Revisited course
- Elizabeth is reading: Full Tilt by Janet Evanovich (Amazon, Bookshop)
- Gretchen is reading: The Rim of Morning by William Sloane (Amazon, Bookshop)
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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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