Ep. 568: Revealed! Our “26 for 2026” Lists
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
As one of the three “Design Your Year” exercises, we each wrote a list of 26 things we want to accomplish in 2026. Some repeats, some new.
Resources & links related to this episode:
- Design Your Year hub
- One last reminder to sign up for The Happiness Project Revisited course
- I Want You to Know: My Portrait of You
- Elizabeth is reading: Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee (Amazon, Bookshop)
- Gretchen is rereading: The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt (Amazon, Bookshop)
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| 1:28.0 | Hello and welcome to happy here, a podcast where we talk about strategies and suggestions for making |
| 1:42.2 | our lives, happier, healthier, more productive and more |
| 1:45.2 | creative. This week, we will reveal our 26 for 26 lists. This is always one of my very |
| 1:52.4 | favorite exercises. I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, human |
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