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 write your manifesto and about the happiness

stumbling block of feeling distracted by your phone.

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

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister, the sage, Elizabeth Kraft.

That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer, living in LA.

And Gretchen today, I'm going to try to be extra wise.

So, good, good, excited.

Pour it on.

Yes, more wisdom, more sage pearls for us to gather.

Speaking of wisdom and lack thereof, you know, the other week we talked about getting

rid of worthless items.

And I said that I had looked around my house and looked for worthless items and like

thrown away some travel mugs and you know, what didn't have lids and things like that.

Well, I realized I had been staring at the ultimate worthless item because, you know, we're

doing our renovation as I've mentioned many times.

And part of that was we put a beverage fridge in our kitchen.

And to do that, we took out a cabinet that had had two pull out shelves inside the cabinet.

And I realized we had those pull out shelves which are quite large just sitting on the floor

next to the kitchen for weeks.

Oh my gosh.

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