Ep. 587: Design Your Summer! We Share Our Plans—Plus the Fun of Creating a Signature Drink

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We share our "Design Your Summer" plans—an annual tradition. We also discuss a common happiness stumbling block–an item that’s too nice for its purpose—as well as a know-yourself-better question related to chores. Resources & links related to this episode: Download the Design Your Summer guide here Start Designing Your Summer here on the Happier app Elizabeth: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Amazon, Bookshop) Gretchen: Casting Off by Elizabeth Jane Howard, which is part of the Cazalet Chronicles (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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:33.2	Hello and welcome to Happy are a podcast where we talk about how to become happier.
1:39.3	This week we'll talk about why you might design your summer and what we're planning for our own summers,
1:43.5	and also an ordinary thing that bothers me more than it should. I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who
1:45.7	studies happiness, good habits, human nature. I'm in my little home office in New York City,
1:50.9	and joining me today from Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Craft, and Elizabeth, you just
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