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Happier - Ep. 361: Cultivate a Rest Ritual. Celebrate “Twos-Day.” How to Stop Reading and Begin a Habit.

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We discuss why you might cultivate a rest ritual, especially if you’re joining us for #Rest22in22. We also talk about celebrating the minor holiday of Tuesday, 2/2/2022, and a listener asks about how to stop reading and starting acting on a desired health habit. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/361 Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:32.5

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to build in strategies and tips for happier

0:38.0

habits in our everyday lives. This week we'll talk about how and why you might cultivate a rest

0:43.6

ritual, and we'll talk about the challenge of wanting to keep learning about a habit,

0:49.2

rather than actually starting the good habit itself.

1:04.2

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

1:08.2

I'm in my home office in New York City, and joining me today for Los Angeles is my sister, the sage.

1:14.0

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

1:18.8

I can definitely relate to somebody learning about a habit instead of actually doing the habit.

1:25.9

But let's just first a few updates before we lunch into today's episode.

1:29.2

Now we've talked about the tackle box, which is full of the sticky notes with different kinds of pads.

1:35.9

There's the pad with to-dos. There's the pad for to-dos. There's a pad for could-dos. There's a pad

1:43.7

for today's and there's a pad for to-dos. We got a note from a listener about yet another twist

1:51.2

on the to-do today to-doodle-cudu-sac. Yes, this comes from Monica. She says,

1:59.6

listening to you talk about your new tackle box reminded me of a variation of a list I made

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