I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

now.

On the surface, Gretchen Rubin had an inviable life. Married to the love of her life and

the mother of two daughters, Gretchen lived and worked in her favorite city, New York. She

was a graduate of Yale and Yale Law School in once clerked for Supreme Court Justice

Sandra Day O'Connor. Gretchen knew she was blessed. Why then, she asked herself, wasn't

she happier? Gretchen's personal quest to bring a deeper sense of happiness to her life

inspired millions to create happiness projects of their own. I'm talking with New York

Times best-selling author Gretchen Rubin about how we can bring ourselves a deep, lasting

joy.

I am so excited to have... I'm happy. I'm not just excited. I am happy. Excellent.

To have you here. And I'm very happy to be here. Well, thank you. Because you are the

founder of the Happiness Project, which is a perfect name for this book and a perfect

name for what you did. And I'm excited for and happy for the information I know you're

going to offer people today. So people are going to now want to do their own happiness

project. When I finished, I wanted to do my own Happiness Project. Because we have the

power in our lives right now to be happier than we are.

Absolutely.

And what I'm hoping happens today is after our conversation that people actually stop and

think about your life. Because you're so in the doing, doing, doing, doing, doing of

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