This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Alteter Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.

So I have a direction, Ruben with me, author of The New York Times Best Sellers,

The Happiness Project, and Happier at Home.

And I also love the subtitle of The Happiness Project.

It's called The Happiness Project, or why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning,

clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun.

Gretchen, welcome to the James Alteter Show.

Hello, I'm very happy to be talking with you.

I'm really glad you came on. I read The Happiness Project,

and it occurred to me, you know, people focused so much on what will create happiness.

Like, will it be money, will it be, if I meditate like for, you know, 30 days in a row,

six hours a day, and I really feel like you boiled it down kind of to its essence

in The Happiness Project.

I also want to mention you have a new book coming out, better than before,

mastering the habits of our everyday lives, and they're integrated.

Maybe you can give a little introduction to what that book's about,

and then I have a bunch of questions about The Happiness Project.

Great. Well, better than before is all about how we can change habits.

Like, really, truly, you know, you want to do something different starting tomorrow morning,

whether that's get more sleep or get off your phone or write your novel in your free time

or give up sugar or drink less, or whatever it might be.

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