Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies and tips for how to build happier habits into your daily life.

This week we'll talk about why you should enjoy your home's special features and talk to writer and entrepreneur,

Ariana Huffington about many things including the importance of the habit of sleep.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature.

I'm a New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft, who has a birthday coming up.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and yes, Scretch, it's almost my birthday.

Yeah, well I sent it a little early because I couldn't resist. Did you get the obliger mug that I sent you?

I did, I love it and of course I'm drinking out of it right now.

Oh good, you know I'm a mug addict. As soon as I get a new mug I have to break it in.

So thank you, yes it's one of our, we have new mugs that have, you can choose any of the four tendencies and the motto is on them.

Yes.

And those are I think available on your website, okay?

Yeah, yeah, if you go to GretchenRubin.com and the top nav bar you see shop.

And if you go there it has the four mugs each for one of the tendencies and I have to say I love the motto's for the tendencies.

So tell listeners what the obliger motto is.

My motto is you can count on me and I'm counting on you to count on me.

I love it. And I've got it on my mug or my knee.

So if you want a mug to proudly display your tendency or as a gift for someone someone who wants to highlight their own tendency,

go to GretchenRubin.com and go to the shop button on the top navigation bar.

I'm so fun to put those together.

And now Elizabeth, our Trodis at home tip this week is to enjoy your home's features.

Yeah, I love this. It's like the idea that you buy a house or choose an apartment or whatever it may be because you like certain features.

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